U.S.S. KELVIN - 1/1000 Kit Review

Recently I bought the model kit of the USS Kelvin in 1/1000.

The upper saucer with the repairs as in the movie. If you want to build a new USS Kelvin, you would have to sand it down.

The lower saucer.

Some details of the side saucer, shuttle bay and the too bulky antenna of the deflector.

The main hull.

The Warp nacelle.

 

Some details of the Warp nacelle and the neck of the main hull.

You can choose if you want to close the weapons or extend them.

The Impulse Engine and Warp nacelle end.

The Deflector Dish.

The decals are very thick. There is one part for a undamaged "new" USS Kelvin and one for a used version. The used version looks almost exactly like the other one. Here I would have liked a variant that has little missing areas in the letters and numbers (and is scratched?).

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For all who are interested in the sizes of the spaceships, HERE is an interesting article. Because the finished model has a total length of 31.3 cm, this plastic model would actually have a 1/1110 scale as calculated by the size of the USS Kelvin.

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A model base in the form of a detication plaque.

The model base was changed in the final kit. It was still straight for the prototype - now it's trapezoidal.

USS Kelvin prototype for Moebius Models

Size of the U.S.S. Kelvin - Kelvin Timeline

The alternate Timeline USS Kelvin NCC-0514 was a 23rd century Federation starship, under the command of Captain Richard Rabau.

• The premise for all my deck calculations: a deck is 2.5m + 0.5m for EPS cables, power cables, ... = 3m height for a deck. 
• My calculations follow a purely mathematical approach. I do not compare bridge modules or disk heights with each other. I always pull in decks based on the rows of windows and then calculate a physically plausible room height.

As size reference I used screencaptures of the USS Kelvin from Star Trek (2009). The bridge set of the USS Kelvin was also used for the Kobayashi Maru test.

The height of the 30 decks gives a length of 354m for the USS Kelvin.

Ortho by F. Passaro

The bridge has several small steps / podiums.

screencapture by trekcore.com

This length also works well with the size of the Shuttle Bay.

screencapture by trekcore.com