Polar Lights 1/350 NX-01 Enterprise..

You could of course, look into the BANDAI offering...

I sell the Bandai Trek models in my shop and they are nice but a bit pricey. Also as a snap kit that is prepainted and marked there is not much in the way of a challenge.

Coming NX-01 model comparisons:

Bandai 1/850 9.88" length Polar Lights 1/350 24" length Bandai Snap Polar Lights glue Bandai $59.65 Polar Lights $49.95 (last price I had)

I'll hold out for the Polar Lights.

Dave

Thanks for the comparison. Having never own or built a Polar Lights kit, I can't comment on their quality (Although some have raved about the substantial improvement over AMT/ERTL offerings of the past.) Does the Polar Lights kit ... "light up?"

only a 10 dollar difference??? Only one shop in my area is bothering with the bandai offerings,and they want

PL sells its cheap snap kits at Wally World, and the bigger, better stuff through hobby shops. Walmart doesn't want anything major in the way of kits anyway. Have you sen PL's 22" diameter C-57D from "Forbidden Planet"?

WinBear

As I've not seen the NX kit, only the test shot pics online, I can comment on their other kits. In general the shapes are nice and fit is usually not bad if they're not snap (bigger gaps if so) and the detail is pretty good is somewhat soft. They use low pressure injection, so they can't get panel lines and edges as small and sharp as others could, but accuracy seems better. All I can say about the NX so far is that it looks nice in the test shot pics. It doesn't have the lighting system like the Bandai kit, but all the clear parts are present to do it oneself. I'll be getting both, with the Bandai one being used as reference for detailing the PL kit :)

Dom

It's $10 less and 2.5 times larger. That sounds pretty good to me, even lacking the lighting.

It's comparable in price to their C-57D, which is 29in in diameter. That's quite a bit of plastic. As another said, WalMart doesn't deal in such big kits.

Dom

look at the scale difference, the polar lights kit is 1/350 scale which comes out to about 2 feet long as compared to the Bandai which is less than a foot long and $10 more. Id say PL's kit has more bang for the buck. Plus I've seen the test runs for the PL kit, it's awesome.

Thomas Models put out a resin NX-01 and from what I understand, he helped in the design for Polar Lights big NX-01

I ordered the resinconvserions for the Plar Lights Enterprise from PNT MOdels a while ago & have not received the items. has anyone else had trouble like this, and if so, do they have a place tio contact? Inquiries into my order have not been answered.

Thanks for the help

Thomas Models put out a resin NX-01 and from what I understand, he helped in the design for Polar Lights big NX-01