Here is my 1:350 Starship build.
Thanks!
Thanks!
My STAR TREK the original series 1:350 Enterprise build up.
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Excellent model!
I always want to make a diorama of the E hitting a Warbird with phasers simulated by a mouse's repurposed laser.
I always want to make a diorama of the E hitting a Warbird with phasers simulated by a mouse's repurposed laser.
As a kid, I would have lost my mind for a model like that. Also today. It looks like the 11-footer in D.C.
Thanks! It was a lot of hard work, but worth it!
Same. The 11 footer is the first thing that came to mind. To hell with cgi. This is what the Enterprise looks like.
To be fair some dedicated fans have created excellent and stunning 3D models of the TOS E, far superior to what CBS did in TOS-R. I know a lot of fans add plating or aztek-ing and even TMP style lighting to create more detail, but the smooth skin of the TOS E telegraphs the idea of far-future construction methods we can barely imagine.
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Many Thanks indeed!
It is indistinguishable from the model which appears in the original show.
Said as a modeler/painter. Your work is absolutely sublime. More angles please!
Said as a modeler/painter. Your work is absolutely sublime. More angles please!
Thanks! AND will do!
I had a second-printing of The Making of Star Trek growing up, the one with this full-color frame on the cover...
...and it was quite a contrast to my white plastic AMT model. But I accepted the fact that you could never have a model that looked like the real thing. That cover photo was from another world, an alternate dimension. It wasn't something you could capture and possess in everyday suburbia. It was forever beyond reach, I thought.
At the risk of being sacrilegious it's actually better. It has no production compromises or construction boo-boos and it's finished/detailed all around. This is a miniature you could film from any side or any angle.
The only way this could be even better is if it were of larger scale like the 8ft. miniature used in TMP or the one used in DS9's "Trials And Tribble-ations." Mind you this 1/350 scale build is better than the DS9 version because it doesn't add detail like hull plating that wasn't there originally.
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