Customer Reviews

Spaceships at the Final Frontier

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I was a little dissapointed with this book. My expectations were more in-depth coverage of paint schemes and advanced techniques such as correcting major flaws in the kits to creating lighting systems. The author seemed to build most of his kits "straight from-the-box" with only minor modifications. In many cases, kit recommendations were used for painting, whereas a little research shows the kit recommendations are usually far from accurate.

I did appreciate the section on vacuum formed models as this is an area most people are not experienced in.

I would recommend this book to beginners for learning basic techniques in assembly and finish. Advanced modellers should already be familiar with the techniques presented in this book.

As you can see from the title, this book was not quite what I had hoped for. As someone who is reentering the arena of model building, it was quite a disappointment.

The overall cover is nice, and there are a few color pictures. However, most of the pictures are in black and white. This obscures any detail that may be gained from them. Even the color pictures are of less quality than can be found on the internet sites.

The text is fairly simplistic and lacks any real detail. It does not provide any real pivotal insight in how to construct, paint and accurize a Star Trek model. Worse yet, it stays away from the most common, main stream models, sticking to mostly obscure and less common models.

Overall this book was really a disappointment. I would only recommend it, if the model you are building is contained within it, and only then to a true beginner.

The book details building of a few Star Trek models. Most of the advice is pretty basic, and feels more like author's modeling journal than manual designed to learn from. Choice of Star Trek models also seems a bit coincidental - I think this book would have been just as good or bad if other Sci-Fi models were shown.

Several topics are beyond what I'd consider beginner's subjects: one model is build from a vacuum-formed kit, another with lighting. At the end Borg cube is made from scratch, with pieces being replicated in resin. Despite this, it really doesn't feel like there is a lot of useful advice given.

Overall I think it's a good book for a beginner, but not much more.