Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™

[Kamen Rider Blade]

huge row of lights on the saucer

That just feels like they're updating the lighting technology from old Halogen Spot Light Bulbs to a LED Strip for Model Making purposes.

This way, when you get a larger Enterprise Plastic Model, you can use LED Strips or the more modern LED Filaments.

https://hackaday.com/2015/04/18/mike-illuminates-us-on-led-filaments/

The new LED Filaments comes in all sorts of lengths.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

That just feels like they're updating the lighting technology from old Halogen Spot Light Bulbs to a LED Strip for Model Making purposes.

This way, when you get a larger Enterprise Plastic Model, you can use LED Strips or the more modern LED Filaments.

https://hackaday.com/2015/04/18/mike-illuminates-us-on-led-filaments/

The new LED Filaments comes in all sorts of lengths.

The refit had registry# lit up, it came from the bridge module and did a good job.

Gawd, I remember the original fiber optic TMP Enterprise kit. You had to flare all the fibers for the windows.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Gawd, I remember the original fiber optic TMP Enterprise kit. You had to flare all the fibers for the windows.

Now Imagine how much easier it is for you now with modern LED Filaments that you can run in any length, shape, and orientation.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Now Imagine how much easier it is for you now with modern LED Filaments that you can run in any length, shape, and orientation.

It's insane how much easier it is now with model building. The fiber optics would need to be heated to flare out, get it into position and hope it cooled into the spot where the window was. Now there are LEDs that are rope type or even ones that just need to be anchored behind the windows you want (and can even program them!)

 

[DaveyNY]

I wish those micro LED's and strips had been around in my model building days.
All we had back then were the large ones and fresnel lens ones.
(and they only came in Red & Yellow)
Then after awhile the square ones became available along with Blue and Green colored ones.
Use to use mini-incandescent bulbs to light the windows.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

I wish those micro LED's and strips had been around in my model building days.
All we had back then were the large ones and fresnel lens ones.
(and they only came in Red & Yellow)
Then after awhile the square ones became available along with Blue and Green colored ones.
Use to use mini-incandescent bulbs to light the windows.

Yep! We had a hobby shop, so when building we would mainly use grain-of-wheat bulbs and if we needed a color, we'd either order them in or put a dab of paint on it. At that point I don't think LEDs were even out yet (our hobby shop was opened before I was born in 1972 and closed in the late 1980's).

 

[DaveyNY]

Radio Shack was the place that I first found LED's in a small assortment back in the mid-70's.
By the early 80's they had started carrying the square ones and blues were beginning to turn up as well.
The only place I could find the grain-of-wheat bulbs was through hobby catalogs by snail-mail.

 

[NCC-73515]

For me, the odd part is the neck has never been curved on the TOS or TMP versions. I mean, there's already enough strange differences that they didn't need to make (angled pylons, huge row of lights on the saucer, massive impulse deck).

They should just call it Strange New Ships.

 

[publiusr]

I think the straight supports work better if you arrange the components like the TOS Enterprise... that is, the distance between the center lines of the nacelles should be two-thirds the diameter of the primary hull.

link to image​

It isn't a big change, but it seems better to me.

Great work there.

 

[HotRod]

Not to reignite any Neverending debates, but I just finished my model of the Excelsior in 1:1000 scale, same as my "Discoprise." If you wanted to see how the 442m Enterprise looks next to a 447m Excelsior, here it is.

I think this says less about the size of the Enterprise, and more about the size of Excelsior. She really does need to be bumped up in scale. Official numbers seem to be all over the place, but a 600m Excelsior would not look out of place.

 

[DEWLine]

Someday, we're going to see someone's attempt at deck plans for the DSC/SNW Enterprise...

 

[HotRod]

Someday, we're going to see someone's attempt at deck plans for the DSC/SNW Enterprise...

Can't wait. Should be interesting.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Heh…. I would love to see how they’re going to fit that massive lower cargo bay into the secondary hull. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but the official MSD, IIRC, doesn’t have that particular cavernous feature.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Heh…. I would love to see how they’re going to fit that massive lower cargo bay into the secondary hull. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but the official MSD, IIRC, doesn’t have that particular cavernous feature.

TARDIS Tech ™

 

[HotRod]

official MSD

There's an official MSD for the Enterprise?

 

[137th Gebirg]

I think I’ve seen one out there in the Twitterverse from one of the folks involved with the show. I couldn’t tell you where it is, I don’t have an account there.

 

[HotRod]

I think I’ve seen one out there in the Twitterverse from one of the folks involved with the show. I couldn’t tell you where it is, I don’t have an account there.

This?

It's fan made.

 

[DEWLine]

Not perfect. A good start.

 

[Ronald Held]

There are deck plans for the SNWprise? Or just an MSD?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Shouldn't a ship's computer core be as far away from the outer hull as possible?