I think buying a revel, AMT/Ertal,  monogram model kit is your best bet. I have a USS Reliant  with nav, formation, and  aintcollision lights. It also has about 250 fiber optic strands running to windows. It took only 30 hours to put it together

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those on TV look so cool, i would just like to have a few of those around.
any idea if these things are expensive?

In UK money you are looking about £15 to £50 for most of the AMT kits with, as loomax says, the fibre optic kits being most expensive. They are quite easy to build and make a nice size model when done.
I've buit three over the years. Original serise 1701, Move version and TNG version. I spray painted both 1701 and 1701 A with gloss white and added small details by hand. 1701 D I did in light grey but used three or four shades to highlight the different pannels. Took bloody ages to do!

I have a nice Cutaway view model of the original USS Enterprise. It's the only non-RC model that I own that looks decent enough to be put on display. I have tons of space ship models. The Reliant, The Enterprise D, Sinar Lambda Class Shuttle (Starwars aka the Tydirium), the space shuttle. I never finished any of these because I just can't paint them.

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I gave it up years ago, I've learned that Monokote is much more frustrating.  I also had a TIE Intercepter model. I had that model paint (I foget who makes it) that comes in the lazy susan type thing with all the little bottles. I messed up and tried to use some thinner to get it off. I learned very quickly that paint thinner can be used to melt plastic.  It's ARF or nothing for me these days.

How about we post pics of some of our best models. I'll get the cutaway Enterprise up once I glue the top half of the saucer section back on. I dropped it and it's been loose for a while. A little CA will fix that right up.

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That's a great idea. I no longer have any of my Trek Kits but I'll sort out some aircraft shots.

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Yep, looks like Sky type S! I think it's a case of different manufacturers giving the colour their own name. I use Humbrol paints and the Their "Sky" is number 90, beige green! I remember the old Airfix range of paints called the colour Duck Egg Blue and so do Revell these days. Tamiya and XtraColour are the only manufacturers I know of that call the colour Sky type "S"! All the shades are a bit different and I try to use the one closest to the colour of the code letters on the kit I'm building and that is usually Humbrol No.90 but I keep most of the others in just in case.
I think Robin Egg Blue is that really pale blue colour that you would use on a BF 109 underside.

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I remember the first kit I built was an Airfix JU 87. That came in a bag with the instructions printed under the card flap at the top. I remember wanting a Spitfire and my dad got me the Airfix MkIX and I sulked because it had a four blade prop and the colour was green/grey not green/brown with three blade prop like a "propper" Spitfire! That was the first time I ever came across the letters JE-J on a Spitfire.