*Potential Spoilers* What will the Alternate Enterprise-A look like

To be fair, a lot of digital models have disappeared over the years from various and Sunday reasons. The Norway from FC, for example and the Son’a ships from Insurrection immediately come to mind, as evidenced by Eaglemoss having to rebuild them from scratch for their model line. It is a good thing if the 2009+ movie models have been saved. Maybe we’ll see them in all their finery one day in an official publication - likely a compilation book from Eaglemoss. I’m more interested in the background ships than the sundry Enterprises, anyway. The Light Works renders, as old as they are, are still considered the definitive orthos on those ships that I’ve seen, despite their inaccuracies.

 

Then I’m curious as to why we’ve never seen them.

 

Eaglemoss used the ILM 1701 model from 2009 to do their cover art for the booklet that came with the first JJprise model. Eaglemoss then used the separate version of the Double Negative 1701 from Beyond for their Beyond JJprise model release.

ILM's...


Double Negative's from Beyond...

 

Did the magazines which came with those ships provide orthographic views of the CGI models?

 

Were the CG models “tight” enough for toys and such? I understand some CG doesn’t lend itself to prints.

Maybe AI to the rescue?

A program to have a “print” be in a medium that exists only in computer, such that something like motion smoothing glides things over, as opposed to individually knitting loose lines together?

 

Not the Beyond refit one, which I have. Just a top and front view, iirc.

 

Good turnaround of the Enterprise-A from that mobile game here (8:35 mark):



And a Minecraft version from our very own @JackSP
Check out their Enterprise-A build here:
https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/uss-enterprise-a-star-trek-beyond-new-version/

 

Interesting. I didn't know Fleet Command ever added the 1701-A. That's cool. I also did a photorealistic turnaround of the 1701-A in this breakdown. It's at 0:49.

 

Ugh! All this amazing ‘shedding light upon the darkness’ that is the Kelvin timeline Ent-A design, is making me ‘champ at the bit’ for EM to produce a model!

 

Same here. But suits call us a dying demographic and would rather sell pimple popping toys...

 

Ha! ^^^ if I can use an EM Bey: Ent-A to torpedo my acne, then ‘fire everything we got!’

 

I'd do anything to get my hands on a Beyond Enterprise-A model from Eaglemoss gfdghds.

 

I have come to terms I'll simply have to 3d print one if I ever hope to have a model of this ship. I plan to do that in the next year or so, hopefully.

 

Thank you.

I would like to see you do some modular secondary hulls so you could mix and match different saucers, pylons, nacelles, etc.

 

So I got the 1701-A 3d printed...







Files from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1423364 and printed with PA12 material, very sturdy and the details come out fairly well. Aside from the goof with the deflector dish (idk if it snapped off or if it wasn't printed) I'm really happy with this. I also got 3d prints of the 09 and Beyond Enterprises so that everything is in the same scale, the family portrait looks great lol.

 

^^^ looks great!

Could you please post a pic of the top, specifically the Saucer?

Thanks in advance!

 

Here you go!

 

Awesome! Thanks so much for taking those - very much appreciated.

 

Wasn't a fan of this design at first but it's definitely grown on me. It has some stunning angles, especially that 2nd pic.

 

Green with envy...