Scale: 1/1400 - about 10"/ 25.4 cm long when assembled

Parts: 3 resin, plus resin base and two plastic rods

Instructions: 1 sheet combined assembly, painting and decalling guide

Decals: ALPS-printed waterslide; markings for USS Voyager

Molding Quality: 8 - overall good, but I found bubbles in hard-to-fix spots

Detail: 9 - plenty and excellent

Accuracy: 9+ looks spot on to me

MSRP: $60.00 USD (~$92.44 CAN/ € 62.67 EUR) available from Federation Models

Overall Rating: 7 - nicely done and more accurate than the Monogram, but assembly may be difficult (see review)

Image: The decals are sharp and perfectly registered.

Image: The assembly diagram leaves something to be desired.

Inside the sturdy box, nestled amongst the packing peanuts, are 4 resin pieces (including a base shaped like a TNG communicator badge), two plastic rods, instructions and decals. The plastic rods and the resin warp engine/nacelle assemblies are bagged together.

The ship is made up of three solid resin pieces. All are well cast, though I did find resin bubbles in three of four deeply indented window "banks" toeards the back of the secondary hull. There was no flash and just the barest hint of mold seams, however. Detail is crisp and consistent throughout. Engraved panels are uniform in depth and width, with no over- or under-runs or crookedness. Raised detail is well-defined - which should make painting details and accents easier. The resin base is sufficiently large and heavy enough to support the model securely. You're on your own to provide a rod or similar method of attaching model to base, though.

Decals are ALPS printed and coated with a clear flat for protection. All the markings necessary to make USS Voyager are there, down to the lifeboats.

If there's a weakness in the kit, it's the instructions. What you get are some general resin assembly tips, a brief diagram showing an overhead exploded view of the parts, and a decal placement guide. The "assembly diagram" could really stand to be larger, and have text telling you how to make affix the nacelles to the ship while making them positionable. Looking at the diagram, I infer that you need to chop each rod into equal thirds and affix them to either the hull or the nacelle with glue where the "X"'s are. That could have been explained in English.

The painting instructions, like those of the Runabout, are clear enough -- if you know what each part of the ship is called. Color call-outs appear to match those in our Voyager Paint Guide (written by Rick Sternbach). You may well want to get a copy of the instructions from the larger Monogram kit as a visual aid, as well as looking over your references.

Finally, the decal placement section is clear enough, except for the postioning of lifeboats. It shows where the three next to each other (decals 10, 11, 12) go - but doesn't point out what decals are to be used for the other liefboats, even though they are shown. Fortunately, URLS for two reference sites online are provided, including ours.

Assembly and Finish

Conclusions