Lingon brd12/29/2023 ![]() ![]() They hamper complete sanding and should run all the way to the edge of the shelf, not end at the seam. This should be smooth, but filling and sanding are complicated by a series of raised lines that cross this space. I had to do extra work on the seams between the shoulder inserts (parts 9 and 10) and the upper hull, but the most difficult to eliminate were around the edge of the head where the upper section fits into the lower head (Part 6). None of this is hard, just time-consuming to make them disappear. The fit of the wing halves and main hull sections are all a bit imprecise and require filler to eliminate gaps. I left off the gear doors, gear legs, and entry ramp for painting. In Step 3, it isn’t obvious that you need to fit either the belly (Part 42) if you are posing the ship gear up, or the gear bay (Part 43) for landing configuration. The numbers for the ends (parts 46 and 47) are flipped in the instructions, but the mistake is apparent when you test-fit them. Some of the panels are a little soft at the edges, but they look good under paint.Ĭhoosing to build the ship landed, I selected the indicated radiator parts. Molded in green plastic, the parts have decent surface detail. ![]() The AMT 1/350 scale Star Trek Klingon Bird-of-Prey plastic model kit is back again in updated packaging, marked for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which marked the Bird-of-Prey’s first appearance. The intervening decades saw the kit reissued several times with few changes until 2010, when Round 2, caretaker of the AMT brand, updated it with new radiator baffles and landing gear to pose the ship on the ground as seen several times in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In 1995, I was thrilled when AMT/Ertl released a kit of the Bird-of-Prey, branded at that time for Star Trek: Generations, that included optional parts to pose the wings in either cruise or attack positions. It’s different, menacing, utilitarian, and - dare I say - beautiful. It was a cool idea while it lasted, though.At the risk of being pilloried by fans of the Enterprise, the Bird-of-Prey is the coolest ship design in Star Trek. Unfortunately, this pretty solid bit of "fanon" was eventually negated when Star Trek: Enterprise established the existence of Klingon Birds-of-Prey operating in the 22nd century, long before the much vaunted alliance. According to writer producer Harve Bennett: I didn't change their ship, because I remembered a piece of trivia that stated there was a mutual assistance military pact between the Klingons and the Romulans for an exchange of a military equipment.īennett's explanation became de facto canon for decades, with many fans believing the Bird-of-Prey was simply the product of the Klingon-Romulan alliance, similar to the use of Klingon ships by the Romulans in TOS' "The Enterprise Incident". There was, however, an in-universe explanation. ![]() Ultimately, as seen in the finished film, the Bird-of-Prey in The Search for Spock was simply a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, with any mention of its origin or its theft from the Romulans left completely omitted. However, as the script developed, the Romulans were swapped out for Klingons and the once proprietary Bird-of-Prey became a stolen one. Early drafts of what would become Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, in fact, featured the Romulans as the film's villains and fittingly contained references to their ship as a Bird-of-Prey.
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