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Thought I'd post this old pic of the U.S.S. Xerxes from the 1973 FJ Tech Manual that my Dad and I built back in the good ol' 1980's.
The strange blue paint job on the nacelles matches the old "TV BOX" paint scheme from the kit box of that era.
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This was also from the days when I'd just build a kit and go with the grey plastic colour. You know...when kit building was simple and fun!
when you use to build your models on Saturday and Sunday with your Dad in the basement and theorize about who lived on the Enterprise and what types of adventures Kirk and Spock would have in Star Trek 2....before we knew it to be Wrath of Kahn.
The bridge dome was cut from these green plastic flower fertalizer spoons that came with the garden supplies back then.
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The neck has two scribed in panels, simular to the panels on a Constitution Class starship's engine pylons. (My dad put those in as I was too young to do it myself...but that was 20 years ago. Dad even scribed in the cross hatching!)
The destroyer U.S.S. Xerxes patrols a new sector of space close to the Romulan Neutral Zone.
You know, it was really hard to get this model in space. I had to use a really tall ladder.:wave:
Anyway, I'll have to take some better pics of this kit in the future. These pics hail from 1998.
The strange blue paint job on the nacelles matches the old "TV BOX" paint scheme from the kit box of that era.
This was also from the days when I'd just build a kit and go with the grey plastic colour. You know...when kit building was simple and fun!
when you use to build your models on Saturday and Sunday with your Dad in the basement and theorize about who lived on the Enterprise and what types of adventures Kirk and Spock would have in Star Trek 2....before we knew it to be Wrath of Kahn.The bridge dome was cut from these green plastic flower fertalizer spoons that came with the garden supplies back then.
The neck has two scribed in panels, simular to the panels on a Constitution Class starship's engine pylons. (My dad put those in as I was too young to do it myself...but that was 20 years ago. Dad even scribed in the cross hatching!)
The destroyer U.S.S. Xerxes patrols a new sector of space close to the Romulan Neutral Zone.
You know, it was really hard to get this model in space. I had to use a really tall ladder.:wave:
Anyway, I'll have to take some better pics of this kit in the future. These pics hail from 1998.
