Sorry, the top part of the secondary/engineering hull where the neck connects (the place where Reliant first phasers Enterprise in TWOK).
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This is the "strong back" area:
The paint in general, while highly accurate-looking, is much too stark from the original. The copper paint on the bridge dome, for example, is much too dark and should be more subdued. The "engineering blue" around the front of the 2H also needs to be throttled down quite a bit. Here's a photo of the original. It is noticeably blue, but a lot more subdued and gives a greater sense of scale than the more highly-saturated blue of this model:
For those really into the details, this is the TWOK/TSFS version of the ship, not the original TMP. The TMP version had greenish-hued paint around the forward navigational deflector and along the strong back. For TWOK, however, ILM changed it to blue when they re-did (read: destroyed) the original paint job. IIRC, they found the original pearlescent paint job on the miniature difficult to film (along with the entire model itself, really) so they resurfaced the whole thing with less-reflective paint so they could blue-screen it more efficiently.
This decal sheet from the CultTVMan modelling supply site clearly shows the differences between the two engineering hull paint jobs:
And here's a photo of the original bridge dome paint job I was referring to (I think from the Christie's auction) for a comparison on color subtlety vs... not
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The Tomy model:
You get the picture...
The paint in general, while highly accurate-looking, is much too stark from the original. The copper paint on the bridge dome, for example, is much too dark and should be more subdued. The "engineering blue" around the front of the 2H also needs to be throttled down quite a bit. Here's a photo of the original. It is noticeably blue, but a lot more subdued and gives a greater sense of scale than the more highly-saturated blue of this model:
For those really into the details, this is the TWOK/TSFS version of the ship, not the original TMP. The TMP version had greenish-hued paint around the forward navigational deflector and along the strong back. For TWOK, however, ILM changed it to blue when they re-did (read: destroyed) the original paint job. IIRC, they found the original pearlescent paint job on the miniature difficult to film (along with the entire model itself, really) so they resurfaced the whole thing with less-reflective paint so they could blue-screen it more efficiently.
This decal sheet from the CultTVMan modelling supply site clearly shows the differences between the two engineering hull paint jobs:
And here's a photo of the original bridge dome paint job I was referring to (I think from the Christie's auction) for a comparison on color subtlety vs... not
:
The Tomy model:
You get the picture...
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I also would like to see a more subtle paint job.And here's a photo of the original bridge dome paint job I was referring to (I think from the Christie's auction) for a comparison on color subtlety vs... not
The Tomy model:
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You get the picture...
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New brakes for my car vs. this latest mancave accessory... Hmm...
The Vulcan shuttle accessory is pretty cool-looking, if a bit out-of-scale to the main model...
If you learn how to do them yourself, you'll have enough to get both. Not that hard, really - been doing my own for years. Just need a good 1/2" drive ratchet set and a big-ass C-clamp to reset the pistons. YouTube how-to videos are your friend...
Seeing that photo reminds me of something I was looking for, but you can't see in the images released so far; the "Starship U.S.S. Enterprise • United Federation of Planets" legend was only added to the starboard side of the saucer for the -A. That area was blank in the first three movies.
That also reminds me, the "Enterprise" under the shuttlebay doesn't have the "dashes" on either side that were in TMP and were removed in the later movies.
Someday, I've got to do a full pictorial survey of all the alterations and modifications to the model over the six movies. I guess I figure if I procrastinate enough, Jörg Hillebrand will post one to EAS for me, like what happened with the movie-era iconography system.
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Hmm...could buy two and make a Wrath of Khan version with a soldering iron before they release that one for $850.
Then there's a TSFS version you can make if you throw it in a fire pit for 20 minutes.
If this one is successful, which I think it will be, are they going to attempt a 1/350 diecast Enterprise D 
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A 1/350 1701-D would be almost 6 feet long.If this one is successful, which I think it will be, are they going to attempt a 1/350 diecast Enterprise D
I think I’d rather see a 1:350 Reliant
One thing that sticks out to me is the lighting in the nacelles. Four LED's spaced apart kind of ruins the illusion and I hope that's changed to a simple LED strip instead.
Back in the 90's, there was a new (at that time) lighting tech called "lightstrip", which delivered a highly-diffused uniform lighting output of pretty much any color you wanted. Absolutely perfect for warp coil applications in model building - no high heat emissions or hot spots that would be evident with independent LED's. Akin to that "Indiglo" feature you used to see on the watches of that era. Sadly, I think the tech was scrapped since, after a short while, the strip would lose its ability to illuminate and get woefully dim. Nowadays, lightstrips have mini-LED's on them, bringing back the hot spot problem. They're so bright, there's really nothing anyone could do to diffuse the light output sufficiently to get a uniform glow.
I am hoping for a Klingon ship, the D-7 in particular, but I think the K'Tinga would be more likely. But I'm not confident that anything but an Enterprise would sell well enough.If this one is successful, which I think it will be, are they going to attempt a 1/350 diecast Enterprise D
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