2021 Edition 1/1000 USS Excelsior Build PT 3. - Beauty Shots and Final Thoughts

This is the final video for the Excelsior build. Lots and lots of decals. Many shots of the completed model.
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[@captainofiron]

I would love for them to make a 1:1000 Constellation

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍A very great and wonderfully beautiful spectacular job indeed, It's a very beautiful and very well painted and detailed and lighted up model of the Excelsior in every way shape and form Sir a job very nicely well done indeed!,👌.

[@ThePw99]

I have mine on preorder, and this build has really given me a good idea of what needs to be done with it. Great job.

[@randyriker541]

Great build, and very much enjoyed your commentary. My only gripe with the kit is the Aztec decals themselves. The tiling and plating are printed in too dark a color register, especially when compared with the same tiling and plating effects used on the actual full size filming models. For scale, the Aztec plating should have been printed in much lighter gray and blue registers that produce a much more subtle effect when dry. Regardless, you've done an outstanding job with this build. Sharp salute, sir!

[@ryanbaker7404]

"By god, that's a big ship!" I'm so glad that we ended up with THIS Excelsior, given the various concepts trotted out during the making of The Search For Spock. I know we're simply speculating about the future form and function of humanity in deep space, but the iconic "Federation Starship" design, with a livable saucer section, a secondary/engineering section, and a pair of nacelles which create a warp bubble, is just so realistic (to me) and does a wonderful job of combining form plus function. I could easily see that design becoming a reality. Some of the Excelsior concepts were just too far/futuristic, and they lost that classic starship look. I remember seeing the reveal of the Excelsior in the theater as a kid (born in 76), and it was a gut punch to realize the Enterprise was no longer the crown jewel of Starfleet. Fabulous looking model, and you did a great job on every aspect!

[@user-sq6hs1hz9u]

Really like the spot light effect, a very clever and effective way to do that without complex lighting but I always think the aztecing is far too prominent on small scale models, not your fault when using decals which are obviously far easier than paint, but the aztecing is a pretty subtle effect even at studio scale.

[@EugenioAngueira]

It was awesome watching this ship being put together. She's a beauty!

[@f4lloutgaymer]

Gorgeous! Fantastic! Lovely build. Great info about the cost of the lighting parts. Yeah, no blinking lights is not a deal breaker. The fact that everything lights up in general is very cool. The blinking lights is like a frosting on a muffin that turns it into a cupcake. Both delicious and wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Be Excellent, Party on and Prosper. 🤘🎸🌈😎🖖

[@2ToyBoys]

Wow...LED tape looks great....and Microsol....duly noted. Great job and thanks for all the other tips. It's hard to start a model...I'm always afraid I'm gonna mess it up.

[@tladrt48]

Gloriously beautiful results 👍👍👍👍

[@brianc1701]

Beautiful job! Really like your spotlight effect on the saucer.

[@grantmiller6570]

Nice job, I would be doing the Valley Forge, slightly different and what a cool name.

[@colinmontgomery1956]

I was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

[@Airius84329]

Wow, that looks amazing, great job! I want to do this one so bad, and I can’t wait for this model, and the USS Voyager later this year. Hopefully the Excelsior will be out soon.

[@Swanlord05]

Wow I love your spotlights I will do that with all my ships

[@daviddooley5361]

You had the same idea I had for lighting the name and registry numbers on the saucer, glad to see it works.

[@kevinobrien4807]

But you did a nice job of building that model thank you

[@highlander6047]

Brilliant

[@tonyperez4791]

Great build !!! Maybe now I get my mojo going and build a couple. Got the dreadnaught conversion for it. Hope you have a great week, Tony

[@johnbockelie3899]

Cool , it's NX- 2000 version .

[@tomsamper4345]

I know that the studio model is white, but looking at it in combination with those aztecing decals I just do not like the depth of the contrast they provide, it looks splotchy or like there is some kind of episode dependant metal disease in the hull, please understand this is not a critique on your work you did an awesome job on everything, but if I take this one up i think it needs a light gray over a pure white to make the decals fit better, or to leave the aztec decals off entirely, the strongbacks alone with the white get a lot of the effect of feeling like the excelsior in my opinion

[@cwam1701e]

Nice job; the aztec decals for this ship from R2 are the best I have ever worked with, and the upgrades to the kit itself are pretty good. I couldn't agree more about how you can light a ship for relatively little money, although I have gone completely OTT on one or two builds, yet some led strip and careful lightblocking go a long way for a little money. I used a slightly darker base colour - sort of light to mid grey - and it seemed to work well for this ship - the Aztec decals blended in more.

[@johnbockelie3899]

From what I read, Shatner and Takei. have a very toxic relation ship . It goes waaay back.

[@davidward9487]

You can get blinker boards from tenna for like 15 bucks now. Worth the extra. But I agree outt doesn't take alot to light these things depending how crazy you want to get. I just lit my TOS with motors from Amazon rgb and orange bulbs for the bussard collectors and led strip tape.

[@James-rn7dx]

Nice looking build!! The darker RCS thruster is just a goof. Oddly enough the darker one is the more correct color for them. The lighter blue decals are for the movie version of the ship, the darker blue is for the later DS9 version. Even though the aztec pattern is wrong it is nice that they give you so much in the decals.

[@scifiguy26]

Nice👍🏾 did you ever find out why is one of the thruster decals is darker than the others?

[@DavidRLentz]

Sumbuddy goofed.

[@RP752000]

BRILLIANT !!!

[@johnbockelie3899]

Strong back, the main support area of the ship that supports engine pylons, and dorsal for the primary hull.

[@RP752000]

@@johnbockelie3899 yeah that is nice too.

[@KEN_of_BORG]

Awesome

[@CrazyChemistPL]

Interesting to see you are using just Micro Sol, seemingly without Micro Set?

[@oldatarigamer]

Excellent!

[@johnbockelie3899]

So, as they used to say.........The Enterprise STOLE the Excelsior's THUNDER. Why would Enterprise have a probe like that on board for any way?. ( Shatner was probably jealous that Sulu was a Captain who had a bigger ship.)

[@johnbockelie3899]

I read where the Excelsior was created to take over the Enterprise role because ILM hated the Enterprise model.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Now we need Mr. Ego him self, Captain Edward Styles. " Kirk, if you do this you will never sit in a captains chair again!!". ( Kirk, " Shut up, you damned puppet.")

[@trekker683]

No offense intended but i really don't like the wallpaper decals. The Aztecing is supposed to be a Subtle thing these are way to harsh looking. I can agree with what you call the tiger stripes and the red pinstripes but the rest i think i will stick to masking and painting. That being said considering all you had were stickers for your drill guides your windows are very clean and straight. You're overall build is very clean and your minimalistic use of lighting to achieve maximum effect is quite good and i am very impressed.

[@captainlogic3173]

Where do you get your model kits? I can't find the new excelsior locally or online.

[@davidwinslow9206]

You do such beautiful work, thank you for sharing it with us.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Why did they change that shuttle bay door area in the back for?. I liked the NX-2000 area. It looked like an observation lounge with windows. The other one looked too plain.

[@DavidRLentz]

The Melbourne? I thought that vessel was an Ambassador-class starship, as we saw at Starfleet's engagement with the Borg at Wolf 359 in TNG episode "AABBCCDDEE."

[@toddwalker4301]

Just started the kit, but I decided not to light it because like you, drilling those windows are a pain. Did the decal set come with the grey area in the recessed part around the deflector dish? I ordered the AMT supplemental decals as well. Thanks! Great job on this build!!

[@johnblack9885]

Did you do a paint wash after laying down your base coat to accent the panel lines?

[@stewartmcminn7773]

USS Decal

[@tfranz1966ify]

What is the best way to drill out the oval shaped windows?

[@thomasgelfuso2014]

I have my kits and decals on the way from Cult TV Man. Question? Do you put the window decals on first? Then the panel decals? Or reverse?

[@diegoarias7774]

I would think Aztec decals then window decals would give the better look.

[@mrt1r]

If you read "To the Stars" by George Takei, he talks a lot about William Shatner and his various ego trips and confirms some of these rumors (At least from George's perspective).

[@michelalano]

Really nice build. In some cases I find the Aztec decals to be a bit too harsh. I’ve heard of misting some base coat on top of the decals to tone them down. Have you tried this? Does this need to be done before or after applying the decals to the model? Thanks again for a great video.

[@davidjames1389]

I just tried this with my 1/1000 Refit and it definitely helped to tone down the aztecs. Then I just resealed it again before applying the kit decals.

[@cwam1701e]

In my mind the movie era Enterprise is basically white, but the Excelsior is basically grey. So when I built mine I used light-mid grey as the base coat. That really tones down the aztec decals when they went on, the contrast is way less. If you can accept the darker colour then this is by far the safest way to go. You can tone down things by spraying after putting on the decals, but it is a risky business unless you are really good at spray painting. I tried it once; if you spray too little you get almost a speckle effect which looks poor (which is what happened when I tried it); OTOH, if you spray too much or, worst of all, spray unevenly and end up with some parts with a heavier coat than others, there is really nothing you can do about it - you can't sand it off or refinish it without ruining the decals.

[@scifiguy26]

@@cwam1701e good idea when i build mine I'm going to use some of that extra patch of Aztec decal as a test to see what light grey to use to tone it down a bit👍🏾

[@DavidRLentz]

How will the panel decals hold up over the following years?

[@fleshanthos]

Won't those decals dry off of it in 10 yrs or so?

[@tpw84101]

it is impossible to find this aztek decal kit anymore

[@michaelpack7948]

what are you doing with the NX versions and would you be willing to sell or trade them? I am building both versions and can not find the NX version of the decals anywhere

[@mr.adventure0142]

EXCELSIOR vs. BIRD of PREY!

[@eugenerusselnash]

Heya! I’m Really Sorry to Suggest a Correction- the Blue Underbelly of the Excelsior that you refer to as the Strong Back is Actually the Vessels Sensor Pallets that are Huge if it were that Excelsior was a Real Ship? The Strong Backs are the Grey Panels on the top of the Vessels Secondary Hull Not Below? I’m Curious as to Where and the reason Why the Reference would Suggest the Strong Back is on the Belly of the Ship? Would it not be Called the Strong Belly otherwise ? Best

[@cwam1701e]

On the Constitution refit the term "strong back" makes sense; that section of the hull has to hold the neck with the weight of the saucer, and the two pylons with the weight of the nacelles (although I am not sure that weight makes sense in space...). I know that building the model you have to take extra care to make sure the joints around that hull section are really strong. For the Excelsior, though, there really is no equivalent stress point; I suppose it is one of those things where the original usage made sense but then the term itself just becomes part of the language of Starship building and then gets applied in a very general way, sometimes not entirely making sense!

[@eugenerusselnash]

@@cwam1701e Heya! If you Look at The Engineering Dynamic of the Excelsior the Same Terminology Can Be Applied Retrospectively as the Upper Secondary Hull Not Only Services the Same Function and Aesthetic as the Refit but Tapers Off in the Extreme to a Secondary Launch Bay. The Engineering Template is Essentially the Same. If Anything and by Some Miracle of Engineering the Excelsiors Strong Back Would Have to be More Robust than the Enterprises due to an Increased Tapered Flat, Wide, Surface Area and the Absence of the Refits Cylindrical Mass to Support the Pylons and Warp Nacelles. But Any Reference Guide from Classic Excelsior to Refit Enterprise-B Notation and Schematics, those Blue or and Turquoise Accents are the Vessels Sensor Pallets- for those Gaseous Anomalies I Guess? The Strong Back is Definitely along the Top Of the Secondary Hull. Also those Grey Panels Also Serve to Access the Interior of the Vessel. Best

[@anselford3753]

My local Hobby Lobby doesn't sell the Star Trek models. WHY???!!!!

[@robertjensen1438]

Just a comment for the algorithm.

[@jubeibob]

I guess all that drama about the excelsior killed the sulu spin off right? its a shame to he had such a great presence as a captain

[@mrandrossguy9871]

Honestly the Nacelles look better if glowing blue only on Top but that's just me, like what they did in Voyager didn't look all that good Cannon or not, Too Much Glowing along the Entire side/Middle of the Nacelle Great job none the less

[@justinecorbyn902]

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