Received Starcraft's NX-01 Conversion Kit

Remember the NX-01 Refit's design I recently highlighted in this blog? Well, I was serious, I really like it. So I went ahead and got me the conversion set, along with a Polar Lights 1/1000 scale NX-01 USS Enterprise to work on.

You can imagine how surprise I was when I saw how small the NX-01 is at 1/1000 scale. Along with the set, I also got the Aztec Decals for her cause I'm not planning to spend too much time detailing this one at this scale. Already having a headache with the Moebius Galactica at 1/4105 scale.



Polar Lights NX-01 and Starcraft's conversion kit plus the Aztec Decals were all obtained from Starship Modeler



Decals looks good. Just wondering how the whole ship would look like since
there are no decals for the conversion set



The conversion pieces and it even comes with decals. Neat



Here's my pack of cigarettes for comparison



Starcraft sure have very good quality instruction sheets. Very easy to understand and the directions are very clear





Polar Light's 1/1000 NX-01 Enterprise kit, and again my pack of cigarettes for comparison there



Just realised ... this kit is really going to be a very small ship. But she is going to look neat in my display case when completed.

The Enterprise Missing Link - The NX-01 Refit

Have anyone ever wondered how the Starship Enterprise we know today evolved from the US Aircraft Carrier to the Space Shuttle Enterprise, then to the XCV (first seen in Star Trek : The Motion Picture, as part of the images of all ships named Enterprise),

And then onto the NX-01 design which had more of the Akira Class shape and configuration,

And then suddenly a big jump to the current Constitution Class design we know and loved from the classic Trek?

Its like there is a missing link in the chain of the Enterprise's evolution tree. I had wondered about this when I first saw her design in "Enterprise" for the first time. I had hoped the show ran for another 3 seasons to explain this discrepancy but alas, it was cut short after season 4, just when the show got very interesting. Now thanks to information obtained from Drex files, another design had come up to make sense of this evolution mish-mash.

Introducing the NX-01 Refit

Its actually more of a upgrade if you ask me as this design really makes the NX-01 seductively beautiful. And to make this even sweeter, Starcraft has actually come up with a conversion resin kit to supplement the insatiable diet of fans worldwide. But before you purchase that conversion kit, you're going to need the Polar Lights 1/1000 NX01 kit first. Well .. it is a conversion kit.

Its like owning a miniature Starship whenever you look at the windows on her. Starcraft's NX-01 Conversion kit is available HERE while Polar Lights 1/1000 scale NX-01 is available HERE

Also managed to get some excellent images off Federations Models of a fully build version HERE