Update:
Springfield-class USS Chekov (#110) and Proton rocket ship (#110) just delivered!
111: top heavy due to body mainly metal, including rear stabiliser fins. Lower “jaw” and “belly” plastic, including the “booster” nacelles and front antenna. Colouring: darkened windows on top. Sigil left and right. A pair of parallel stylish lines across entire (plastic) lower hull - didn’t know it was there.
110: If you like the Ahwahnee model, then the Chekov is for you, too. Good solution to the half-open plastic pod on the original: closes here - the click-on point has become a shuttlebay. Top saucer and top of its rear is metal. I can’t tell for the pod but most likely plastic. Nacelles like Ahwahnee model but larger.
The RCS thrusters on the saucer are not painted on, but are physical knobs on the mold!
The suspended engineering hull is plastic.
Nitpick: saucer and engineering hull are not parallel when seen from the side. On the CGI in the magazine, they are. If you hold the saucer perfectly horizontal, the dish casts a downward glance. If you hold the engineering hull horizontally, the saucer snobbishly raises its nose.
Trivia:
The Springfield magazine officially names the USS Curry’s class the Curry class. It also includes an early design concept for humanoid Borg by Rick Sternbach.
Side notes:
I wonder whether there’s a USS Simpson of the Springfield class somewhere out there?
Btw, I’m going to get myself a second Chekov and pry the engineering hull off to see how the design comes across then. There was a time when it was not clear that it had secondary hull.
