Micro Machines did a pretty decent version of it, too, if you can get past the ugly-ass yellow paint job.
Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription
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But it's tiny. Maybe WizKids is going to churn out a new version?
Potentially, but their scales are even weirder than Eaglemoss'. For example, the TOS Connie looks like it's about half the size of the Reliant. You'd think, at the very least, that common/hero ships would be a little bigger and certainly within scale relative to each other.
Biggest disappointment? Definitely the TMP refit Enterprise (and Enterprise-A). It's the second or third most important Trek ship and that's what they come up with? For me almost everything about it is wrong. The mold, the nonexistent aztecing , the nacelles, the color and those awfully huge seam lines for me looked wrong. My only hope is that Eaglemoss remakes it in their oversized specials series like the recent TOS-E and E-D.
The tiny Excelsior/E-B and Enterprise-E follow because of their micro(machines) size.
The tiny Excelsior/E-B and Enterprise-E follow because of their micro(machines) size.
I still believe that those refit molds are from the first-run shipments, back when the series was only a local UK thing. Probably one of the reasons they held off making it go international - the models back then sucked and they had to find another company to make them, but they still already paid for them and had a warehouse full of them - probably had thousands lying about - and had to get rid of them somehow. 
First issue? Enterprise-D: Amazing model! 
Second issue? Refit Enterprise: IMO crap!
Second issue? Refit Enterprise: IMO crap!
That's what really put me off this collection, despite being interested. The refit Enterprise is my favourite Trek ship, but their version stank the place out. Those huge blue nacelle intercoolers!
They seem to have got a lot better though. I'm tempted by the big Enterprise.
They seem to have got a lot better though. I'm tempted by the big Enterprise.
Yes, it is hard to tell which is which when side-by-side
It's not the best model I have, but I wouldn't swear off the entire collection because of it.
Interestingly, some of the Eaglemoss ships are the same size as their Furuta counterparts, like Voyager and Prometheus. But they're not incongruous. The way the saucer bulges is different, making me wonder which one is more accurate.
Not that I'd make a fuss about it. I love me ships.
Not that I'd make a fuss about it. I love me ships.
I thought about that but the Futura had a bit of a 'Micro-Machine' look to it and the fronts of the nacelles look wrong. With the high level of detail Eaglemoss brings to the table I was hoping for a great replica instead of that cut-and-paste mess.
Maybe they will issue a Hathaway and fix the mesh on that one since they did opt to make a all new tool for the Saratoga...
The Constellation class only existed as physical model. Eaglemoss seems to have relied on the CG model from the novel Star Trek: Stargazer: Enigma.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/File:Enigma.jpg
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/File:Enigma.jpg
Sorry I wasn't clear. I can't think o any details that they have changed rom their initial run of CGI models. IE something that was already created. The Centaur which has plenty of errors on it (but I still absolutely love it) was a model they built from the ground up trying to match the references they had for the model.
In reference to both T-Smitts and Kaidonni
As or the rerelease of later additions of the Defiant, Equinox and Akira. I started my third subscriptions after my first two were already past 50 issues. And I got the corrected Defiant (where they fixed their own error), as for the German blog mentioned by Kaidonni. The Akira still doesn't have an added name to the hull (again keeping with the CGI model) and blowing up the image o the ship it still looks like it misspells Federation, I know my later issue of it still has the error, and the Equinox model corrected a spelling mistake they made not one from the CGI build. I just seen any evidence of Eaglemoss correcting an error that was part off the Original CGI file, during their first run release.
Looking back at the Akira is kind of odd. It was a very well received model or the most part, but looking back, it's the most detailed CGI model made or the Federation Fleet (not named Enterprise), but its the least detailed model out of the four from Eaglemoss.
Don't get me wrong. I think the Eaglemoss Enterprise-E, the Excelsior and the Enterprise-B are great models. But their small size keeps them from being fantastic models. I don't display them with some of the other Federation models (e.g. the Reliant or the Grissom) because their scale is ridiculous off!
But I have high hopes for them as mega-sized specials (if for they get made). Especially judging from the 11-inch TOS Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C, D, or E) I got yesterday!
But I have high hopes for them as mega-sized specials (if for they get made). Especially judging from the 11-inch TOS Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C, D, or E) I got yesterday!
They're not small though really. For whatever reason it is, Eaglemoss are keeping all the ships in the normal run under 8 inches or so, the only reason why those ships you cited look small to you is that they're long and with a lowish profile, unlike the Orbeth or Miranda classes that are shorter and chunkier.
And as I showed yesterday, the E-B is no where near as small as the Micro-machine equivalent.
The scale is dictated by the dimensions of the box. The closer a ship matches the box's length-to-width ratio, the larger it can be (i.e. the Enterprise-C). The further away it gets from that ratio, the smaller it is (like the Fortunate).
Of course I understand that the box's dimensions dictated the size of these ships but for me personally that's not a real excuse. They could have simply used different sized boxes just like they easily used a different box in some releases, for instance the Borg sphere.
So you would be willing to pay double or even triple the price for some ships then?
Actually, those of us go for the jumbo ships will.
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