Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

[dantini]

http://blog.trekcore.com/2021/01/star-trek-picard-launch-april-hero-collector-model-releases/

1. Why do the first two magazines of the Star Trek Universe Official Starships Collection say "Star Trek Picard The Official Starships Collection"?
2. Apparently the Inquiry class is 630.94 meters long. The large white windows made it look much smaller to me.
3. Looks like EM only added a name and registry to the Zheng He model, but none of the other much needed detail seen in STO. It's the "toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet ever put into service", but it doesn't even have weapons... If it were a regular small model I wouldn't care, but I think this is not detailed enough for a Discovery-/special-sized model.

 

[Markonian]

http://blog.trekcore.com/2021/01/star-trek-picard-launch-april-hero-collector-model-releases/

1. Why do the first two magazines of the Star Trek Universe Official Starships Collection say "Star Trek Picard The Official Starships Collection"?
2. Apparently the Inquiry class is 630.94 meters long. The large white windows made it look much smaller to me.
3. Looks like EM only added a name and registry to the Zheng He model, but none of the other much needed detail seen in STO. It's the "toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet ever put into service", but it doesn't even have weapons... If it were a regular small model I wouldn't care, but I think this is not detailed enough for a Discovery-/special-sized model.

Thanks for embedding!

STO just added RCS thrusters and let the rest of the ship be.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s...verview.png/revision/latest?cb=20200904152221

In-game, it doesn't really matter whether a ship has phaser strips or one-point weapon emplacements. Perhaps Starfleet started ditching the strips on some of their ships, like with the Defiant class.

 

[dantini]

STO just added RCS thrusters and let the rest of the ship be.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s...verview.png/revision/latest?cb=20200904152221

They also added phaser strips (near the saucer edge) and some more red stripes, and it looks like they made the escape pods more visible.

 

[Cradok]

Has anyone here ever ordered from EM Russia? What are they like? Do the mags come in English or Russian?

 

[Tuskin38]

They also added phaser strips (near the saucer edge) and some more red stripes, and it looks like they made the escape pods more visible.

what's interesting is that the number Eaglemoss put for the Zheng He is 5 above the registry for the USS Inquiry in STO's promo shots. Which as I brought up in the Picard ship thread, is a neat consistency.

 

[Kirby]

Maybe it's been a while since I watched Picard, but was the La Sirena always painted like Eddie Van Halen's guitar?

 

[Markonian]

Maybe it's been a while since I watched Picard, but was the La Sirena always painted like Eddie Van Halen's guitar?

Yes, it was noted right when the ship made it's first public appearance. Before that, I had not heard of this musician before.

 

[Dukhat]

Yes, it was noted right when the ship made it's first public appearance. Before that, I had not heard of this musician before.

I will still be friends with you anyway.

 

[Kirby]

Yes, it was noted right when the ship made it's first public appearance. Before that, I had not heard of this musician before.

Then get thee to a music store immediately! Van Halen's first album came out in 1978, and Eddie is widely considered one of the best guitarists of all time.
Don't listen to the Gary Cherone album though...

 

[dantini]

I hope the orange and blue parts on the Zheng He were just photoshopped for these product photos, because they don't look like they are clear plastic...
Can anyone identify all the other ships pictured on the packaging? I see La Sirena, the Zheng He, the classic BoP, the ranger ship, the Wallenberg class tug, and the Romulan ship with bent wingtips, but there's another one next to the Wallenberg and one or two partially visible on the left.

 

[Tuskin38]

The one right of the Wallenberg is the Snakehead

The one left of the Inquiry I think is Oh’s command ship, based on the one stripe you can see.

I don’t remember the Wallenbergs have such bright orange stripes.

 

[Vger23]

Yes, it was noted right when the ship made it's first public appearance. Before that, I had not heard of this musician before.

Please correct this oversight immediately.

 

[dantini]

The one left of the Inquiry I think is Oh’s command ship

The ship is facing the wrong way though, isn't it? What's visible seems to be the rear.

 

[Tuskin38]

You’re right. It might be the other Romulan ship then, the ones that are basically just wings.

Although I don’t see the fins coming off the side.

You might be right and it’s Oh’s command ship facing the wrong way.

 

[dantini]

I hope the Argo-like Mars shuttle will be among the first batch too, that's the Federation starship I'm most interested in.

 

[Dukhat]

The ship directly underneath Seven’s that’s 99% tucked away behind the cardboard sleeve looks like those gray warbirds with the spindly wings.

I wonder if they added a name and registry to the Wallenberg.

 

[Markonian]

I hope the Argo-like Mars shuttle will be among the first batch too, that's the Federation starship I'm most interested in.

The McCall class, yeah, good shout!

Perhaps they could include it...in a Shuttle Set?

 

[dantini]

Speaking of shuttlecraft... I can only think of three more from the old TV shows and movies that haven't been made yet: The Nemesis workbee, the VOY Endgame shuttle without armor, and the ENT inspection pod. What should be the fourth model in the (hypothetical) next set? A repaint of the executive shuttle? Another model of the Type 7 shuttlecraft that resembles the actual screen-used version? Or is there any other type I've missed?

 

[thribs]

How many models do they send you of the copy and paste ship?

 

[Markonian]

Speaking of shuttlecraft... I can only think of three more from the old TV shows and movies that haven't been made yet: The Nemesis workbee, the VOY Endgame shuttle without armor, and the ENT inspection pod. What should be the fourth model in the (hypothetical) next set? A repaint of the executive shuttle? Another model of the Type 7 shuttlecraft that resembles the actual screen-used version? Or is there any other type I've missed?

Great selection. In my head, I keep calling the unarmored Type 18-H shuttle the "naked Janeway shuttle", as opposed to the "armored Janeway shuttle". That's on my MUST HAVE list.

Besides that, the Type 7 is a great idea because we already got a variant of the Galileo 5.
If they want to go experimental again like last time, then add the Nova-class waverider.
Otherwise, we could dip into escape pods, where there's Sovereign class, Intrepid class, or USS Saratoga's.