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Wednesday 11 December 2013

Polar Lights' new USS Reliant model kit

Round 2 Models' blog, Collector Model, has posted some preview images of the prototype for their forthcoming Polar Lights USS Reliant model kit. The 1:1000 scale Miranda class kit is a wholly new model currently being developed by Round 2, and at the moment is still having the kinks ironed out; quite literally, the saucer of the prototype is a bit wavy at the moment.


Mega Hobby have also posted box art for this new release, which they expect to come in June:


Once it's released the Reliant will join a growing collection of Polar Lights and AMT kits at the same scale: The NX-01 (recently reissued with extra parts for the refit design), 1701 (which was also recently re-released, coupled with an SS Botany Bay kit), 1701-A, 1701-B, Klingon D7, and Romulan D7.

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5 comments:

  1. Fox11 December 2013 at 18:15

    I really wish American models would be pre-painted or at least molded in appropriate colors.

    I went to Gunpla when I was thirteen or so and never looked back.

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  2. 8of511 December 2013 at 22:40

    Is not the painting part of the model making experience?

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  3. Fox12 December 2013 at 03:23

    It's a part.

    But you shouldn't need such a massive time and skill and money investment just to make a model (potentially) NOT look like ass.

    I don't know about most modelers, but I don't have the time to devote to priming and painting and detailing a model. That's why I love gunpla--you don't need any glue, the parts are all molded in the correct colors, and with a little bit of time and a paint-pen you can make 'em look really good and detailed.

    I also have a bad childhood experience with plastic model glue MELTING through the plastic of american models... and of Trek Models being pathetically cheaply constructed (parts that don't quite fit together; a tendency for the nacelle pylons to sag, etc.)

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  4. SFC317 December 2013 at 22:09

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  5. SFC317 December 2013 at 22:09

    Sorry Fox, but GUNPLA is copyrighted by Bandai - it's their design only.

    I don't think they'd shell out to license for something trival.

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