Columbia NX-02 Polar Lights 1:1000
NX-01 Refit with Columbia name and registry number

This will be the alternate build of this kit, of the Doug Drexler-designed NX refit for the 5th season of Enterprise onwards (which sadly, of course, never materialized). I've seen other modellers paint this white, which I really like, and the box indeed shows the refit version as being white, or at least very very light grey - totally unlike the silvery/metallic look of the NX-01 (which I've never really liked too much anyway). So my plan is to paint her in a combination of matt white and pure white. The pure white parts will have a gloss sheen finally, to make them more Constitution-like. The refit is, after all, a huge stepping stone between the NXs and the Connies.