I'm building the entire Starship Enterprise interior at 1:25 scale
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I like that lay-out. Similar to TAS.
Even on the FJ Booklet blueprints, the saucer is wider in relation to the saucer than the bridge is on the 11 footer…in order to force fit into 947 feet….just eyeballing it. We are pushing into JBOT territory now.
At first, I thought he was doing the B/C decks as the control room…with the uppermost part as a radome.
Even on the FJ Booklet blueprints, the saucer is wider in relation to the saucer than the bridge is on the 11 footer…in order to force fit into 947 feet….just eyeballing it. We are pushing into JBOT territory now.
At first, I thought he was doing the B/C decks as the control room…with the uppermost part as a radome.
I haven't watched his videos. What's he doing that's so different?
Well, at least he's building some kind of starship. And it is closely Original Series-adjacent. I'm still interested.
Same. I mean, everyone does something that is a compromise to what we saw/what MJ designed.
Usually, it involves resizing the Hangar Deck....
The larger maintenance corridor around the Bridge has required him to enlarge the dome but he wants to retain the proportions as well, so the ship is going to have to be around 1,250' now.
At least there'll be plenty of room for all those luxury crew quarters!
I'm not sure if he'll keep to this option though, due to the 1:25 scale
There are solutions short of changing the exterior. Turn the bridge 37 degrees and it fits perfectly. Drop it half a deck like Jefferies did and it can sit straight. The only (mostly) unsolvable problem is the hangar, and even that can be as long as you want it - if you deal with the interference from the pylons creatively. That is another reason Jefferies didn’t show the forward end, I suspect. To keep us in the dark about just how long the hangar might be.
I mean no disrespect to anyone who has gone that route, but throwing your hands up in the air and saying it can’t be done and must be made bigger and/or changed totally is the least creative, most lazy solution.
I mean no disrespect to anyone who has gone that route, but throwing your hands up in the air and saying it can’t be done and must be made bigger and/or changed totally is the least creative, most lazy solution.
How much variations need to happen before it is not the 1701?
Yeah, he's adding a couple of meters to get the service area around his bridge. He's using the same reasoning I've seen others use that "if the Enterprise was a real ship not a TV set" to justify changes - which is perfectly reasonable since he is upfront that he is building his interpretation.
If he opted to use the USS Constellation's bridge from "The Doomsday Machine" he could use the wider bridge module that is present on the AMT 18" kit and not need to scale up the ship
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I honestly think that's the best solution, otherwise he'll need to add another 10 or more feet to the final model!If he opted to use the USS Constellation's bridge from "The Doomsday Machine" he could use the wider bridge module that is present on the AMT 18" kit and not need to scale up the ship
When you watch the video, you see him say that he's just increasing the ship size by a couple of meters. Which gave me the impression that the only change was an slightly wider saucer section, not an increase proportionally to the ship overall. A pushout from the center, using the existing cross-section profile, as it were.
Did I misunderstand that or did I miss something somewhere else?
Did I misunderstand that or did I miss something somewhere else?
That is how I heard it too.
Good to know.
That idea might work. My rough calculations says a 2-meter increase in radius would add about 13 and a half feet to the diameter of the saucer, which isn't much for something that hovers around the 420-foot mark.
He said that in the video, but then in the comments he confirmed that he is keeping all the proportions the same.
Someone else pointed out that you can't just increase the dome by 2 metres and the saucer by 2 metres, while still keeping the same ratio of dome to saucer proportions, which he admitted he had overlooked.
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But would it have been noticeable? That's the question...
I don't think it would be noticeable unless you compared directly to the 11' model.
FWIW, if he used the full-height bridge module it is about the same diameter as the AMT 18" kit's bridge. The half-height bridge module is about 6' less diameter.
