Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

That one is on the cards yes. Memory Alpha has a complete list of everything planned so far.

 

The ringship shall be mine!

 

It would be pretty cool to have a 3D version of the Rec Deck wall in TMP.

 

When the legend becomes fact, model the legend.

 

An artificial way to boost value, maybe? Its quick sell-out was very much an indication of how popular it was. Now people can expect to pay stupid-huge amounts to get one now that it’s an instant collectors item over all the rest.

 

I forgot to buy the Titan. I've been waiting for it to come back into stock.

 

Oh great, now it'll be $80 on eBay forever.

 

Thank God I got one before they ran out forever. Now that the Vesta Class seems to be in stock again, I'll have to get it too.

 

And looking through the conversation afterwards, it looks like what he was told was in error.

 

I can't wait until one named "Uranus".

 

Picked up #112 the Nebula-Class USS Phoenix this afternoon (out today in UK shops)

Hmm, this looks very familiar So yeah it's pretty much exactly the same as #23 the USS Honshu but just with a different pod. I suppose we've had similar ones before, like the Reliant and Saratoga, and recently the Klingon Bird of Prey exactly the same but just with its wings down. But this one more than those just feels harder for me to be excited about. And also it's the first issue I've bought with the new extra £2 price tag.

I was umming and arring about getting it at all tbh, I cherry pick the issues but usually do go for most of the Starfleet ones. Anyway I had nothing else to do today so I figured I may as well go in to town and get in just for something to get me out of the house. Oh well.

I mean it's a nice model, it's well done. Like I say just hard to be buzzed about unlike say the recent Wolf 359 ships.

Haha think I posted this before but it did make think I've become Smithers in this clip

 

The Phoenix is probably their laziest model yet.
It's literally just the Honshu with a different pod. Never mind that the Phoenix had fewer windows, a thicker saucer, and a completely different engineering hull and deflector dish.

 

Well Forbidden Planet in town didn't have the Phoenix (nor Titan, Aventine or the XL-Enterprise E) which is a bummer, but on a more positive note (although not for my wallet) I have just purchased the second and third shuttle set and the Franklin model as to take advantage of the reduced prices in the sales.

 

That doesn't help Eaglemoss in any way.

 

I think we're slowly reaching the point where we already have a model of almost every important Star Trek ship, ever. It's actually kind of amazing. I don't see any major ones missing anymore, only some minor ones like maybe the T'Plana Hath, Degra's ship or something like that.

It's almost amazing how many ships we got, and what spectacular quality most of them had! Sure, there were some issues, window alignments, missing details etc. But I doubt we ever got (or will get another) such extensive collection with almost all ships being SO amazingly correct proportions and details, and every two weeks no less! I think of the repeats (like the Ent-A, or the new Nebula) like of some filler-episodes on the show: Where Kirk had another fight to the death for some aliens amusement, or had to reason against another super computer. These slots just needed to be filled with something, and the result is still pretty great, even if it didn't meet all expectations.

I had originally hoped they would add the Discovery-ships to the line. But I guess it makes more financial sense to start a new line for that. The only real misgivings I have about this collection is that the shuttles aren't regular models in regular size with regular prize. I would have bought some. No interest in the shuttle sets though.

 

Actually, a question for all you people:

What starships that you are interested in are still missing in the collection?
I think there are one or two Vulcan ships still missing from ENT (the shuttle), and the T'Plana Hath. But at the moment I can't think of any other specific starships we still need models from.

 

They got them (or will get them) pretty much all covered. There are a couple from TAS I wouldn't mind (Bonaventure, robot cargo ship, Orion Pirate ship, and a color-corrected Kzinti ship) but for the most part I've been very satisfied with the completeness and accuracy of the line.

Speaking of shuttles, I ordered the third set not long after they were set up for pre-order and haven't seen them yet. They're still listed as pre-order items, but in my experience, even those seem to be readily available. Anyone seen those yet who have ordered them?

 

Definitely the Jem'Hadar battleship (primarily seen in DS9: Valiant, and also seen in What You Leave Behind.) I'm surprised they haven't done it already.

Also the Hazari ship from VOY: Think Tank, that was one of the ones pictured in the inital display of ship pictures they had for the collection at the very beginning, but still no sign yet.