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For me... the Enterprise is not on a normal Starfleet mission, this is a mission of exploration outside of the Federation. Currently the mission is funded by and under the guidance of the United Earth Space Probe Agency... but that doesn't mean all of Starfleet is as well. Lets take a real...

Wow, thanks! While I'm sure that there is a lot of OCD involved in the building, there is also something to how I shoot my models. So when you set up a model in front of a black background, that background tends to absorb a lot of the ambient light, making the shadows on the model seem darker...

I'll try to put something together the next time I can upload stuff (around Sunday). I know that the attachment locations of the dorsal and nacelle supports were changed on the AMT model kit in the early 70's, so I'll try to include that too. Thanks! I hadn't heard of that book or seen the...

So no real progress yet... but I'll be getting back to it soon. In the mean time, some more shots of the (still) unfinished model... Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view And one of the other things slowing this process down is trying...

I've gotten a little sidetracked, but I'll try to return to this model soon. Once I finish with it, I'll take some final shots of it and some comparison shots of it with my 2009 study model (which is now in the pilot configuration). It should help illustrate what Datin changed on the 33 inch...

That screen shot was from a video made using AI to fill in the step between a set of images... I figured that caused some distortion. The original model today matches up with my studio scale replica (other than the sagging nacelles). And this two-thirds replica is looking more like my studio...

Thanks! A bit more progress... Click to view

I'm not sure I recall Doppelgänger, but the HL-10 is my favorite too. I thought I'd share some "illustrated" shots of my models I had thrown together... Click to view Click to view Click to view Click to view

I've finally started in on the decals, here is a quick shot of the top of the primary hull... Click to view It's a little progress.

I've had the same thought. Actually, Dale Reed had used scale models dropped from an RC plane to test the M2 design. Here are some shots of those models... Click to view

Thanks guys! So for the movie and the series, NASA had the HL-10 on hand for Majors to act with. The crash was the M2-F2, which was rebuilt as the M2-F3... and had been donated to the Smithsonian before filming (and is still on display today). The X-24A had been converted to the X-24B, which...

So I recently noticed that I had messed up the painting of my rebuild of my 2010 Enterprise study model, which meant I needed to go back and fix it. While waiting on that, I decided to finish my X-24A model... that is, I decided to build the masters as a model rather than used them for molds...

I haven't made much progress because I've been fighting a migraine for the last few days. But I thought you guys might find this interesting, a comparison between my 2010 model and the original in 1979... Click to view While not a perfect match, I think it at least shows why I thought I had...

Thanks a ton for the encouragement guys! Yes, it is based on the 33 inch model... I'm attempting to match the original as it looked in early 1969. This is slightly different from my studio scale replica which was meant to replicate how the original looked in December 1968 (during the filming of...

This is my progress on rebuilding/upgrading my 2010 study model of the Enterprise. The goal is to bring this model as close as possible to looking like my 2019 studio scale replica (at two-thirds scale). Like my rebuild of my 2009 study model, some aspects of the model's original form are going...

My favorites to watch were... "The Doomsday Machine" "The Immunity Syndrome" "One of Our Planets Is Missing" "Beyond the Farthest Star" I liked "Requiem for Methuselah" because I really wanted the Enterprise from Flint's lab, and "The Lights of Zetar" was the one that scared me the most as a kid.

I've started on upgrading my 2010 study model to better match my studio scale Enterprise. This should progress faster than the 2009 model because I had made some of the replacement parts at the same time as the ones for that model, and the decals are just a scaled down version of the ones I made...

When I was doing research for my plans of the Enterprise, I found that there are real world equivalences to the type of missions seen in TOS. Two examples are the BAS Halley VI Research Station and the USCGC Healy (a Coast Guard icebreaker). I won't provide plans for either (as that type of...

Pictures and videos seem like an inexact way of looking at ships. If you want to know something about the USS New Jersey, why not refer to the Booklet of General Plans? And if you wanted to compare and contrast them with other ships, there are a whole bunch of them here.

The size of the Enterprise was finalized in October 1964, and did not change after that. I outlined the history of the only size change in my 2016 reconstruction of the original Enterprise plans... Click to view (sheet 1) Click to view (sheet 2) And it is also covered in my history of the...