Polar Lights 1:1000 Enterprise Refit Star Trek build-off 6

It's been awhile! I may be the only one left in this group build, but I'm still going forward. I lost track of the Enterprise once I started building the T-4 Blue Impulse for my J-dad and the SR-71 Blackbird for my dad last fall. Here I am resuming some painting work for the parts requiring Duck Egg Blue, and I'm trying out a gradation technique I thought of for the reflector dish.

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