Question: Does anyone have the Enterprise REFIT recently released by Corgi? I saw reviews on the tube and while some details are missing and the vents on the pylons definitely horrible, overall proportions seem OKish? I am super curious about SCALE, though: the TOS Connie from Corgi from 20 years back was super close to 1/1400 (while lacking some of the overall shapes it looked really close in proportions to the starcraft TOS Connie...from just looking at it, this time CORGI may have gotten the better proportions on the lady...compared to the old Starcraft 1/1400 kit... Long story short, anyone care to measure for the community, overall length, Saucer diameter, secondary and nacelle lengths and "girths" and what not? Much appreciated!!
I think the Corgi is a bit closer to the Kimble blueprints.
The bigger TOMY offering seems to have an even more elegant secondary hull teardrop--but I'm just eyeballing it.
That might be a good project for anyone with a scanner and both examples... maybe the 1/537-ish repop and Polar Lights 1/350, the Art Asylum, etc.
TOMY's replica has the nacelles more in keeping with the filming model, whose lines are a tad different...as explored here:
www.trekbbs.com
The bigger TOMY offering seems to have an even more elegant secondary hull teardrop--but I'm just eyeballing it.
That might be a good project for anyone with a scanner and both examples... maybe the 1/537-ish repop and Polar Lights 1/350, the Art Asylum, etc.
TOMY's replica has the nacelles more in keeping with the filming model, whose lines are a tad different...as explored here:
Enterprise Evolution from TOS to TMP
For a long time I have been under the impression that the TMP refit Enterprise was desgined by Richard Taylor with refinements by Andrew Probert. As I transition from drafting the TOS Enterprise and begin heading toward the TMP refit, I decided to first visit the Phase II design. I had...
www.trekbbs.com
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I was thinking about this and your 1/537 thread.
A nice lady here managed to get lumafield to scan those awful vape gizmos she wanted to re-purpose:
Disposable Vape Becomes Breath-Activated Synth
Makers and hardware hackers have been collecting disposable vapes for some time now, usually to salvage their batteries or the unique displays many models now come with. But you can also repurpose …
hackaday.com
There has been some movement on the 1/537 due to the guy here:
Building & Improving AMT USS ENTERPRISE REFIT Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. WIP
To remove the fake azteking and turn the kit into a smoothie, is a Herculean effort. Bravo Zulu. You're right. It's hours of sanding and a really sore arm. :sick:
www.therpf.com
He is well thought of at the RPF.
A lot of folks don't have the time or money to so the level of work Shaw put into the TOS, but Lumafield scanning toys and models pro bono could perhaps get them some contracts.
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