So what you're saying is, because the actual filming model or CGI model of a ship isn't very detailed and of full quality, the accompanying Eaglemoss model can't be of high quality either? I'm not sure I agree. Of course I understand that these models have to have some source, but surely the goal should be for each and every model to be as good as possible, regardless of the source filming model.
Actually a model (be it real or CGI) that has limited details is the full quality model of that ship. I don't think most people expected same level quality in a ship that was design to be filmed or used hundreds of times, in a wide variety of ways to the quality of a ship that was created as background. Or a model the that was made for a movie screen should have higher quality then the model used on TOS.
Models can have a huge level of difference in the care and design that was used in making them. If Eaglemoss is attempting to produce quality models off these designs then clearly the ships that have more detail is going to give the models they chance of being better. I mean take something like the Equinox where the detail is sharp enough to have the individually numbered life boats. Thankfully due to that ship being rather small to begin with, if another model wasn't done to that level of detail that level isn't going to be in the ship Eaglemoss creates.
They also advertised these models to be screen accurate for the scale, that also means using the errors that are on the ship. I can't think of single correction that they have made from a model that had a spelling error, a pennant done wrong, ect. Something like how the Akira does't have a name on it, because the CGI model was created with out one. Now they have corrected some of the images used for the magazines, but I can't think any corrections made for the model itself.
Now of course there are a host of errors that have been in ships that are from Eaglemoss themselves, things that weren't part of the production, but it really doesn't surprise me. As again if the professionals who made these ships and designs could make errors, then certainly others could as well. And then we have things like details never put on the models for Eaglemoss, not errors, just not matching. I assume those are primarily due to time, and production costs. In minor ships I can certainly imagine not getting enough reference material. The best example I know for that is the Pasteur. Something they don't have a ton of reference for. But what happened right around the time it got released. About 20 High quality close up images of all the various angels for the Pasteur was released. They had none of those. Another great source for fans, as been all the close up high quality images various fans took of the ships at the various auctions that occurred after production stopped and Viacom got rid of all the production materials of the various shows. I assume that they just have some photo references sent by the license holder as well as the CGI file database (which we have seen Ben show on his computer). And while they have to get approved by the license holder before they get released, I am very curious if the license department does anything more then just give them a quick glance (after all I have seen a huge host of crappy looking merchandise that bears on a small resemblance to the source material).
I get more upset about ships that get released of poor quality when the source material was significantly higher, and there are many of these, but for the most part they aren't the CGI ships. Though how the Negh'Var could have been such a poor job, I just can't imagine, unless for some reason it was a CGI model that was corrupt or they didn't get (it was done by one off the FX houses that they did have files from though). Things like the seem on the Nebula class on the aft section and no other detail on that aft section. This was based on the CGI file, and those details are absolutely there. I can understand the seem, those normally don't bother me that much. But the full absence of detail on a file that had detail??? Those are the type of issues that I get most upset about.
