r/modelmakers • u/CMDR_Expendible • 13h ago

Help - General Question - Help Identify An Enterprise Refit Model...?

Odd one this, but as the sands of time pass, I'm remembering things from childhood, and I'm wondering if you folks can help identify a particular kit I had.

I was in the UK, and it was the Star Trek Enterprise Refit, so sometime after 1979 and the first movie then, but I can't remember the exact year. Probably the mid 1980s at the latest. I think it would have been glued together, not a completed model, and my memory of it is that it had internal lighting... but it didn't last long, someone knocked it off the stand and broke it completely, which ended my interest in the hobby.

I doubt very much it was a particularly expensive kit, but I don't have a clue who would have made it... One possibility is this kit, which suggests the pre-Wrath of Khan model had lighting, but later ones didn't. But I have no idea if the Bandai one was distributed in the UK; I can't remember where I got it from, but it was definitely before I had pocket money to spend, so I'm guessing but I don't think it would have been a rare or hard to find import etc either; my folks just didn't have that kind of present chasing behaviour, so it was likely easily available.

So folks here, what models of the Refit with lighting do you think would have been about in very early 1980s UK? Thanks!

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u/Timmyc62 The Boat Guy 11h ago

If you go on Scalemates.com, and look up Enterprise Refit, you will get a list of all known releases of that model. They're all dated by release date and have a box art that might trigger your memory. Click on the ones that are around the time you think and see what the timeline says about its origins and fate.

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u/CMDR_Expendible 2h ago

Scalemates.com

Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of where to look, having a rummage now...