AMT Star Trek USS Enterprice 1701C 1/1400 Scale Model Kit

This is a good model for those that want to try an light a kit for the first time. There will be some filling and sanding to remove some lines but overall the kit fits together pretty good and has some nice detail. The sensor band on the saucer edge is inaccurate compared to the studio model for the Enterprise C. It should be smooth with panel lines continuing down from the top of the saucer section not ridged like on the model. This can be easily fixed by sanding the ridges off and scribing the correct panel lines. Also the front of the neck should be smooth not ridged. If your building the Yamaguchi more work would be involved to make the model accurate compared to the studio model. The saucer section should be back further on the neck, and the nacelles should attach further back so they don't touch the saucer. Also this kit doesn't include the correct ram scoops for the Yamaguchi, which were different then the ones on the Enterprise C. Even with the above mentioned errors this is still a great kit.

This is a great model... 1/1400 scale and very detailed. I plan to light mine up and it definitely supports the more ambitious modeler that may want to do that. If you plan to buy a version of this ship, of all the ones out there, this is the best one. Great ship for the $$$ price!

Came quick and just as we ordered. Four stars instead of five not for Amazon or the seller, but because the kit itself is a little simplified. This is acceptable, really, as the Enterprise C had exceptionally little onscreen time in Star Trek: The Next Generation (Yesterday's Enterprise episode). All-in-all, though, quite a good deal and easy to put together. The end result was quite nice.

THIS IS A GREAT KIT BUT I HAVE BUILT HER INTO A DREADNOUGHT CLASS WITH A THIRD NACELLE AND ADDED MORE PHASER BANKS AND SHE HAS 2 BIGGER TORPEDOE LAUNCHERS 1 FOREWORD 1 AFT SO SHE HAS 18 PHASER BANKS AND 2 MULITIPLE LAUNCH TUBES EACH TORPEDO TUBE CAN FIRE 10 TORPEDOES ON 1 LAUNCH HER SPEED IS FASTER THAN THE ENTERPRISE DREFIT WARP FACTOR 15 TRANS WARP SPEED THE ROMULANS WONT BE SLAUGHTERING THIS SHIP

I had the original model of this when it came out, I loved the extra decals that came with this one. Great work on it. And the Improved stand that comes with this model far surpassed what they used on the 1st issue of the model.

I've loved the Enterprise C ever since I first saw Yesterday's Enterprise episode. This model really does it justice and with a few after market parts for the nacelles and boussards its really a great kit. The smaller version is suprisingly very detailed as well if you want one that doesn't take up as much room, but this kit is worth making space for.

I have mixed feelings about this kit. The Ambassador-class is, to my eye, one of the more graceful and most true to the design spirit of the refit Enterprise/Enterprise A. (Except for the engines...they just aren't right for the rest of the ship. They succeed only in showing evolution of the design language leading to the warp nacelles on Galaxy-class, but I digress.)The kit for the most part, matches the lines and the broad detail seen on the shooting model for the class from the ST:TNG series in its (what, three?) appearances. Given the others before me who have written their own dissertations regarding the discrepancies between the kit and the filming version, I wont go into that again here. What you get form the box (at least the iteration that I have) comes with:**two sprues of clear parts, bagged separately and with a bit of foam in an effort to reduce abrasion in shipping**a bagged sheet of water-slide decals with name and hull numbers for Enterprise C and Yamaguchi, and half the sheet is "battle damage" artwork in an effort to depict the vessel seen in "Yesterday's Enterprise"**two more bags of hull and engine parts, in a color that I like to think of as "Communist Institutional Light Blue (Despair)"**a bag containing a black plastic partial hemisphere for a display base and steel rod to support the model**assembly instructions with a paint guide (generic color callouts, and Testors Model Master paints by name & part number), and assorted marketing material from the manufacturerThis is not a complicated kit. It would likely be an excellent first "glue necessary" kit for the neophyte modeler. There are not a lot of pieces, its obvious how things go together, and there are not any obnoxious failures in the mold design or part fit, though filler will be desirable. The downsides of the kit I think apply more for the ambitious builder. The molded-in detail is *very* soft around the edges, and both primary and secondary hulls are covered with it, the bridge and the bridge riser deck (i guess? not sure what to call it) being particularly egregious in this regard. There are numerous oval windows that are not evenly spaced or even in size (they are surface features and do not penetrate thru to the inner surface of the hull; if you want to light this ship, you have a lot of Dremel work ahead of you.) The engine nacelles will also need some careful massage work to get a clean fit at the forward ends especially. The area around the main sensor will also need attention filling gaps around a clear part and the secondary hull, especially since this is such a prominent feature. The display base is easily large and sturdy enough to support the model without it tipping over (feline attentions notwithstanding...) and an equally beefy support rod. Unfortunately, the rod connects to the model with a sort of top-hat shaped socket that protrudes from and breaks up the otherwise graceful shape of the forward engineering hull.I like having a model of this class of starship, and I think it would generally be built in one of two ways. The first, as a weekend project; glue it up, maybe a bit of putty, sand the flash smooth, some simple masking and a couple coats of color from rattlecans and you've got something great to hang from the ceiling. The other approach will be a weeks long timesink sharpening the surface detail and filling in nuisance gaps along part lines, rebuilding detail over those areas and re-scribing panel lines. It isn't near as ugly an assembly fit and finish process as was the old box-scale Enterprie A kits from the 1990s, but neither is the engineering of the kit as sophisticated as the current production 1:350 Enterprise A kit from the same company.

My 7 year old loved this. Did it look perfect when he was done, no, but does he care, No! He built it and it is awesome! Loved putting it together.

他にエンタープライズを所有していますが、なんかスケール的に小さいような・・・その割りに価格型か高めなのが気になりました。また、作ってみてわかったのですが、部分的に形状が合わないところが・・・まあこんなもんかと思っています。