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Here's poctures of every sprue of the new Polar Lights "Enterprise" NX-01 kit. This kit features over 200 parts, with I'd guess about 25% of them in clear for lighting. |
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Let's start at the beginning - the box. The box measures 16" x16" x4". Chris White's incredible painting serves as the entier cover with the "Enterprise" logo across the top and the Polar Lights logo in the bottom left corner. At Wonderfest 2003, Chris gave out signed 1/4 sized prints of the NX-01 artwork. In that print, his signature is on the lower right corner - where the PL logo is now. Smartly, PL moved his signature to the left corner, rather than just pasting their logo over it. |
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| Now a look at the instructions. (You do read instructions, don't you?) You're going to NEED them for this kit. Many of the windows are multiples of the same part numbers. Thankfully, Polar also went with a multi-step instruction sheet rather than their usual all-consuming exploded view. The opposite side of the sheet features four greyscale views of the ship, a paint color list, a sample of the "aztec" pattern, and the callouts for the MANY decals. | |||||||||
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An erratta sheet is also included, as some steps had some part numbers mistakes. I'd imagine the main sheet will be corrected in the next run, but it was good that they caught this ahead of time rather than after the kits were released. The decal sheet is jam packed with every possible marking and stripe on the ship, taking up an entire 8x10 sheet. |
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| On to the parts... | |||||||||