1701-D "6ft" model more like 6.83 ft model????

[1968gtcs]

I wouldn't have accepted the 4ft, I would have fired the builder and hired someone else to make an acceptable model. If hull plating and a wider saucer rim(for lighting) was all they were looking, the scaled down dimensions shouldn't have changed by much.

 

[Shaw]

I wouldn't have accepted the 4ft, I would have fired the builder and hired someone else to make an acceptable model.

Yeah, that Greg Jein guy has always been the weakest link in Star Trek's effects team. Why they kept him around after building the 4 foot model is a mystery.

 

[AstroSmurf]

^ He helped build the six-footer too.


But don't go blaming poor Greg for the 4-footer. He only did what the special effects team asked him to do. If you want to blame anyone, blame Dan Curry.

 

[1968gtcs]

If he worked on the 6ft model, he should have known better than to make it look so different.

 

[FalTorPan]

If he worked on the 6ft model, he should have known better than to make it look so different.

How many casual viewers noticed the changes? For that matter, how many typical Trek fans noticed the changes?

 

[JarodRussell]

The ship looked its best in "Encounter at Farpoint" and Star Trek: Generations. Perhaps not coincidentally both stories featured footage of the six-footer shot by ILM.

At least they got that wonderful shot into Generations so we can envision how TNG in HD would look like...

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/generationshd/generationshd0976.jpg
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/generationshd/generationshd0977.jpg
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/generationshd/generationshd0978.jpg
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/generationshd/generationshd0979.jpg

Quality.

 

[Squiggy]

Those raised plates on the 4 footer would've come out to be about 2 feet or so "in real life". Has an in universe explanation ever been given to why the E-D all of a sudden (or always has been) looked like it was cobbled together with spare parts?

 

[Solarbaby]

When did they make the 4ft model? I never noticed a difference watching the show

 

[FalTorPan]

Those raised plates on the 4 footer would've come out to be about 2 feet or so "in real life". Has an in universe explanation ever been given to why the E-D all of a sudden (or always has been) looked like it was cobbled together with spare parts?

How thick were the plates on the actual model? If the four-footer were exactly 4' in length, then with the Enterprise-D's hypothetical "full-scale" length of about 2108', the filming miniature would be 1:527 scale. A two-foot-thick plate would be 0.046" thick on the model, or about 3/64".

 

[The Axeman]

I'm going to put my hand up and say I never noticed that there were 2 models. Or rather, it never entered my head to question how many models there were. It looked a little different in some close ups, but you just put that down to lighting. When you got real close to see something episode specific, you guessed it was a partial model made to do that one thing. I never got angry that they might not be totally consistent.

 

[STR]

6ft? 7ft? Bah. Now HERE'S a model:


Note the do not touch sign. It's not to preserve the model, it's because it's too much for you to handle.