James Kitson

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Building the USS Enterprise ( 1/537 Star Trek 5 version )

Opening ThoughtsThe 1/537 USS Enterprise is one of those kits that stalked me since I was young. I remembered seeing it in various iterations through the years, basically re-released after every new Star Trek movie. Yet, my budget and available space never quite lined up, and when I finally hit the point of having the …

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Building and lighting the Revell Build and Play Star Destroyer

Hello! I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but since every time I do a lit model I always get peppered with questions on how I did it, I thought I’d put together this little blog to show some of what went into the build and maybe some of my insights on the process. …

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Models for sale

To make room for new kits and fund future builds, I’m trying to sell off some of my kits.   ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

AMT Klingon Cruiser ( Vor’Cha )

After sitting in my model stash for 15 years, I decided to finally build the Klingon cruiser that debuted in the Next Generation.  I’ve been holding off until my skills and time could hopefully do it a measure of justice.  I always liked this design as a heavy compliment to the smaller bird of prey …

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Modeling- The Kazon Raider

After deciding to take a break from some of my other projects, I decided to build a quick model to keep my practice up and relax a bit with a kit that I didn’t overly care about.  My closet is sadly full of kits that I resist building simply because I don’t feel that my …

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A History of the Vectan Empire

I’m hoping to being writing periodically on my various alien races, for today I’m opening this with a bit of History on the Vectan Empire.  This will probably prove more interesting as background information for the new book I’m presently working on which occurs in the era of the Vectan Republic.  Hopefully, you’ll find something …

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A question of Utopia

Of the critical comments I’ve received on my work so far one of the most amusing to me is the question of a utopian future.  I will admit that I am an optimist, and that works into my writing at times.  While I certainly don’t think that a utopian future is guaranteed, I think it …

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My first author interview!

Howdy folks,  as the very few of you who currently follow me may know, I had the luck of bumping into the good people at Seattle Geekly while I was at OryCon this year.  For those of you not in the Portland area OryCon is the Portland area Science Fiction convention.  Seattle Geekly is a …

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How could zombies beat the army?

How could the military fail to survive a Zombie Apocalypse like the one presented in The Walking Dead?  This is one of those questions I like to run through my mind, and was spawned recently by some forum discussion I read on this very topic.  While I would generally say that the US military stands …

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Modeling the Bucket ( Battlestar Galactica )

As a way to relax, I sometimes like to build models.  I don’t do it as often as I’d like so my skills are often rusty.  For my latest effort, I dove in and built the Moebius Models Battlestar Galactica.  Aside from a few issues adjusting the ‘head’ of the ship, it was a pretty …

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