AMT 1296 Star Trek Classic U.S.S. Enterprise 1:650 Model Kit

I know I have some down time coming up for a medical procedure, so I figured that I would revive my love for model building. I had built and painted this model in the 70's so I figured it would be a good place to start back up.It arrived in perfect condition and I look forward to working on it.

The model luckily is ok but the box both shipping and model box was beat to crap as you can see, final delivery was from UPS.

Bought for my brothers birthday he was very happy

The days of ol'. Had this AMT model decades ago, still love it. Assembly is easy, painting, if desired. is still super simple.

Bought for Christmas present. Good quality

I put this together with one of my kids as a first model-making experience and it was a good one. Not a lot of parts to get confused over, though some of the parts do not "snap tight" and require a little bit of patience to hold together while the glue/cement dries. Also, please note that the decals in this version are ONLY for the Enterprise and not for any other Constitution Class ship.

This is the 2023 version of the original model kit. There are a lot of loose flashing on the kit and lots of big seams that need to be dealt with. I painted with ordinary automotive gray sandable primer. I glued it together with super glue in a plastic squeeze bottle from dollar tree. The super glue grabs very fast and is sandable. There are big seams around the edge of the saucer which you have to sand and fill with either more super glue or Bondo body filler. This kit is quite expensive at $47, so I don't know if you want a kid to put this together, but if you spends some time, you can get good results like I did. You can find my video on how to build this kit on youtube.

This was a gift and was very happily received. Excellent attention to detail.

Bonne qualité un peu de travail pour finaliser

models are fine but boxes did arrive damaged, that's why only 3 stars otherwise happy with order