Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription
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Even for Eaglemoss, those windows are horrible. Not just completely misaligned, but the on and off windows don't even line up with each other.
I find it difficult to fathom how this continues to happen all these years later, unless they simply don't care. I'd like to hear an official excuse as to why they can get the other paintwork to line up* but windows are simply "too hard, didn't try."
*Although seemingly not in this case. The more you look at it, the more obvious it is that all the different applications on the Cerritos are just a mess. Multiple layers misaligned and overlapping.
I find it difficult to fathom how this continues to happen all these years later, unless they simply don't care. I'd like to hear an official excuse as to why they can get the other paintwork to line up* but windows are simply "too hard, didn't try."
*Although seemingly not in this case. The more you look at it, the more obvious it is that all the different applications on the Cerritos are just a mess. Multiple layers misaligned and overlapping.
Nothing I've seen leads me to believe that position even exists. When they actually get it right, it is probably just luck.
Well The Titan is normal sized and the Certitos is coming.
Personally the paint job doesn’t bother me. It’s still better than if I was to do it.
I meant the Lower Decks version of the Titan. It’s an XL just like the Cerritos…unless I missed an announcement of a smaller line.
Id give any manufacturer a little leeway on this kind of thing, but the level of misalignment there is awful isn’t it?
Im pretty sure the LD version is an XL, just without the XL designation. It’s roughly the same size as the Cerritos.
Eaglemoss need proofreaders "in the know" badly, their Kelvin fleet had sizes from the EAS website which were infamously wrong (the author of the site hated the scaled up Kelvin ships and listed only "corrected" sizes that agreed with him)I did get the Cerritos. It’s a very heavy model and bigger than I expected.
I noticed a mistake in the magazine. It says it launched in 2245 which is the original Enterprise launch date.
Does the magazine give the size of the Cerritos? I ask because the recent Shipyards book had a totally wrong size, far bigger than the Enterprise-E.
No size information but I did find another mistake. On the inside cover it has the ship named NX-75567 when it should be NCC-75567. Everywhere else is it’s correct.
I wonder if they have a template in place when they make these magazines and just copy and paste the new information over. That could explain the 2245 as that could have been left when they did the Discoprise model. No other ships since then have definite launch dates so that part has been left untouched.
I wonder if they have a template in place when they make these magazines and just copy and paste the new information over. That could explain the 2245 as that could have been left when they did the Discoprise model. No other ships since then have definite launch dates so that part has been left untouched.
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Speaking of quality control, over at the Facebook group, people are posting their images of the XL Rocinante.
Normally, the gauss cannon at the bow looks like a thin fork with two tines. On the XL Rocinante, the upper tine of the cannon is missing.
I'm glad I went for the regular Rocinante, which doesn't have that issue.
Normally, the gauss cannon at the bow looks like a thin fork with two tines. On the XL Rocinante, the upper tine of the cannon is missing.
I'm glad I went for the regular Rocinante, which doesn't have that issue.
What I cannot understand Eaglemoss already has the correct data and mesh- just like the Refit XL they seem to be creating the larger ships from scratch instead of just taking what they have and making it larger. They are ding ings the hard way and introducing errors were non have been before.
I can understand how most of the people working on these replicas have no idea what they are working on- being totally unfamiliar with the subject makes simple things a real puzzle. I remember Tom Sasser getting frustrated with Diamond Select because he would create and send over perfect masters and they would "fix" them. One of the ships he showed me was the Enterprise D- they could not grasp the fact those beige squares were lifeboat hatch covers and kept changing the location and shape of them thinking they were some decorative racing stripes instead.
Apparently that's not the case for the Lower Decks collection...
Coming soon: Type 6A shuttle, and another California-class ship.
I love the larger size of the new Titan and Prometheus. The blue tint on the Titan is too strong for my taste - perhaps we’ll someday get a dedicated XL with high-rez aztecing, and with the captain’s skiff (yacht) back on the bottom of the saucer.
The Prometheus looks great and the mag states it is 415m long. The warp grilles on the nacelles don’t taper down at the aft end, like on the CGI and regular model. Assuming this is a limitation imposed by production, I don’t begrudge it.
The Prometheus looks great and the mag states it is 415m long. The warp grilles on the nacelles don’t taper down at the aft end, like on the CGI and regular model. Assuming this is a limitation imposed by production, I don’t begrudge it.
#15 USS Liu Cixin is available for pre-order (Estimated date for delivery: September!?)
Thanks for sharing.
September is a long time away when it comes to awaiting a new ship.
But if it’s that long till pre-order, and the subs are still lagging 4 issues behind, it’s gonna be ages for the subs to get their Mars class.
Also, in the show the Liu Cixin appears to have been replaced with the Le Guin, presumably after an unpalatable statement the still-living Liu made. We can tell because in reference material, they share the registry number.
I wonder why Eaglemoss didn’t switch over as well? Probably just going with the unchanged(?) CGI.
Lastly, I was wondering how Eaglemoss would solve the stand/pylon problem on a ship where the parts are so widely apart. I like the solution. As with the Nog, I can glue the hull and nacelles to the “pylons” and cut the stand off.
Not up on my science fiction writer trivia - what was said that prompted the name change? Did Liu not appreciate the homage or was it something unrelated?
He's Chinese and said some stuff that echoed China's state propaganda on issues like the Uighurs being rounded up and sent to "reeducation" camps, and has generally stuck up for a lot of things people outside of China don't consider their proudest achievements (like the one-child policy, or autocracy). It's certainly possible given that he lives there, and the political reality, he doesn't feel he has any choice but to echo the party line in interviews and public statements, and doesn't actually agree with everything he's vouched for in his heart of hearts, or maybe he's just a big ol' asshole who genuinely agrees with the Chinese government on all points, even if he had perfect objective information.
Personally, I think it's probably the former.
He's apparently in support of the persecution of minority groups in China.
Which is disappointing.
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