James Kitson

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

Opening Thoughts
The 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 …

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 …

Models for sale

To make room for new kits and fund future builds, I’m trying to sell off some of my kits.

 

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AMT Klingon Cruiser ( Vor’Cha )

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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.  …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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