BUILDING A SUPER ACCURATE FIRST PILOT USS ENTERPRISE

I was looking at my original build of the 1/350 Polar Lights USS Enterprise I built back in the early twenty teens and thought to myself I'd sure like to build another.
Then a client reached out to me through my Instagram account and asked me to build one for them!
So much has changed since my first build up of the First Pilot USS Enterprise
I bought one of the first issues of the kit and I planned to do the 'production version'. Or how the ship appeared in most of the original episodes. But everyone was doing that so I eventually decided to build it as it appeared in 'The Cage' (the first pilot episode).
Several years ago there wasn't much info on how the Enterprise looked when first delivered. There were only a handful of photos of the completed model and maybe a minute of fuzzy screen time to draw from.
I was able to find two builders who logged what they did, and only one was on the 1/350 scale Enterprise. Imagine my surprise when I learned the neck was blue, I didn't believe it! And neither did anyone else!
Things have certainly changed, the instructions with the kit now direct builders to paint the neck blue.
Of course that's not the only difference, the first pilot USS Enterprise was built with no lighting, as such the hull was perfectly smooth and that's the biggest modification I have to make to this model. Filling all the window holes.
The kit does come with window inserts, but they're imperfect. Some sit high and stick out past the hull, others are slightly recessed. Even if they were perfect there's still a seam around the edge.
In order to fill the seams well and make sure the bond it solid I use baking soda and CA. Combined they make a ridiculously strong filler/bonder. After they're sanded I use spot putty for its actual use, filling small imperfections, rather than as a single use filler.
I hope you enjoyed the first part in my client build of 'The Cage' version of the 1/350 TOS USS Enterprise.
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ABOUT JASON MARSHALL
Hi, I'm Jason Marshall a Pop Culture and Sci-Fi scale model maker, who delivers top quality in all the model kits I build.
I love to share my knowledge with others and my videos are meant to present tutorials of pop culture and sci-fi models build ups. I want to inspire you to build that model you've always wanted to by providing the tips, tricks and techniques to make it a reality. That's what this channel is all about.
Each build series covers different elements of scale model construction broken down into individual videos that cover such topics as:
Parts Prep., basic construction, seam filling and smoothing, painting, wiring & soldering, lighting, fiber-optics, modifications, Photo-etch parts, resin replacement parts, decals and much more.
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ABOUT THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 AS SEEN IN 'THE CAGE'
Star Trek art director Matt Jefferies was the primary designer of the original Enterprise, which was originally named Yorktown in series creator Gene Roddenberry's first outline drafts of the series. Jefferies' experience with aviation led to his Enterprise designs being imbued with what he called "aircraft logic". However, Jefferies years later confessed to have taken some inspiration and artistic license from electric stove coils.
The first miniature built for the pilot episode "The Cage" (1965) was unlit and approximately 3 feet (0.9 m) long. It was modified during the course of the series to match the changes eventually made to the larger miniature, and appears on-set in "Requiem for Methuselah" (1969). The second miniature built for the original pilot measures 11 feet 2 inches (3.4 m) long and was built by a small crew of model makers (Volmer Jensen, Mel Keys, and Vernon Sion) supervised by Richard Datin, working out of Jensen's model shop in Burbank, California. It was initially filmed by both Howard A. Anderson and Linwood G. Dunn at Dunn's Film Effects of Hollywood facility.
Initially, the model was static and had no electronics.

[@DoughnutsInspace]

Looking good to far.

[@JasonsModelShop]

Thanks, Doughnuts!

[@dennisbisconti4583]

Jason+ I am currently working on mine I am not lighting it I am doing my window differently but the end result is the same I am blocking off all the windows that aren't on the pilot version and I am going to leave the window that are on the pilot version after I am going to paint 🎨 the widow left on the pilot version and fill them with canapie glue but I am going to do is draw on grid lines I know I know they are not cannon but I want to do one like that I will put them on the secondary hull and the Warp engines as well I have a second one I am going to build with the light and no grid lines and paint 🎨 it the correct color the first one I am building will be of the kongo one of the other star ships but the one I light up will be the Enterprise the correct way
Keep up the great work Jason love your channel

[@JasonsModelShop]

At the end of the day I guess there's no real 'right way'.
Whats important is that you express yourself artistically and have fun doing it.

[@HobbyLinkInternational]

Excellent work. I will be following this build when I do mine :)

[@JasonsModelShop]

Good. We need more first plot variations out there!

[@johnbockelie3899]

I read in a magazine at the library that the pilot episode Enterprise in 1964 cost about 600 to 700 dollars to make and build. ( that was a lot of money for the budget of the time.) Of course the Cage had a plaster miniature made for far off views. Your work is excellent.

[@JasonsModelShop]

Thank you! Thos one will be even better than my own.

[@michaelcooke2559]

Nice prep work. That is going to turn out great. Thanks for sharing.

[@JasonsModelShop]

I hope so! Luckily I already havre some experience with this build 😬

[@craigfresch575]

LANDING GEAR?!?!?!

[@JasonsModelShop]

I believe there's documentation somewhere that say that was Matt Jeffries intent when adding the 'triangles' to the saucer.

[@craigfresch575]

Cool!! I know they wanted a removable saucer just like the enterprise d