Saturday, July 21, 2012

This week's Half Price Books score

I'm not that big of a Star Trek fan, but I couldn't pass up this Hot Wheels model of the Enterprise-D from the Next Generation series when I saw it. 
In a move sure to make collectors cringe, I took it out of the box and threw away the packaging.  This thing is meant to be played with, not sit inside plastic. 
As you can see, it's got a lot of detail.  However, I think I will apply an ink wash to bring out those panels and windows.  It was just seven bucks, and although I'm unclear on the scale, I can probably figure out a way to use it in a starship game.  If not, it will go on display at home or at work.
My happiness in finding this is somewhat diminished by the fact that as I was leaving the parking lot, a woman backed into my car!  Luckily, it didn't seem to do any damage other than leave a slight mark on the side of my vehicle.  Still, if I hadn't stopped at HPB, she wouldn't have hit me ....

4 comments:

Don M said...

What no shields? All kidding aside, parking lots are the worse place to drive in Texas!

Allandaros said...

Awesome. How large is the ship physically? Please post the end result of the wash!

Sean said...

Bummer about your car but the model is a nice find.

Sovereigneternal said...

The HPB I was in had several. You should have bought an entire fleet.