Did anyone ever do a....

[Bernard Guignard]

Looks to me like someone had an extra nacelle cap and glued it over the bridge. At least the lattice work would help the dreaded nacelle sag that the model has.

 

[Wingsley]

Here's my lame attempt to use Photoshop to provide a look at what I was talking about:

My apologies in advance if it's too cheesy. This is just one of many possibilities that I can think of, based loosely on the "Galaxy 666" cover image.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ Has that got 2 of those underside dome thingies?

The ship on the book cover looks to have a normal Enterprise secondary hull, probably in the right position.

I wonder if that thing under the saucer is part of the secondary hull, maybe they did something weird with the sensor dish area.

 

[Wingsley]

I wanted it to have five, but I had difficulty superimposing them over everything else.

For this example, I wanted it to have two domes.

This U.S.S. Peltorro exercise was meant to take the novel cover and realize it based (loosely) only on what is seen, instead of what the model actually was. I have alot to learn about Photoshop.

 

[Wingsley]

Another possibility came to me...

The "Galaxy 666" image could be a good basis for a kind of pre-TOS Oberth/Grissom. The "Galaxy 666" image does not show any connecting neck between the saucer and secondary hull. The image is just blurry enough that, stretching things a bit, we could imagine the nacelle pylons going through the back of the saucer. So, imagine a small saucer with the angled pylons going through the back-end, connecting the saucer, secondary hull and nacelles. Kind of a proto-Oberth, if you will.

 

[TheLoneRedshirt]

Audacious in its sheer ugliness. Why am I humming Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

 

[The Axeman]

Its a horrendous cheap kitbash! Its 10 minutes work by a hack photographer for a pulp cover shot, and even then he felt the need to blur it out. Pay it no mind.

 

[TrickyDickie]

Thanks for the effort, Wingsley.

Interesting ideas there. And don't worry about Photoshop prowess or lack thereof. All I've got is Paintshop and I get plenty flummoxed just trying to come up with halfway-decent chops for the caption contests.

 

[Dukhat]

Well, the review states that this ship was some Enterprise knockoff toy, probably made in knockoff-land China.

For some reason it kinda reminds me of the movie "Zapped," where they couldn't use a model of the Enterprise for rights purposes, so they kitbashed a pair of movie Enterprise nacelles and pylons onto a Millenium Falcon model:

http://ctupa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/z1.jpg

anymore views of this Trek/Wars Kitbash?

http://ctupa.com/blog/?p=971

Basically it's the top half of a Millenium Falcon (without the cockpit and radar dish), with Enterprise nacelles and pylons attached. There's some unidentifiable doodads attached to the nacelles, and a red light on top for the "bridge." The latter was what reminded me of this ship.

The model was probably thrown in the garbage right after the scene was filmed

 

[Wingsley]

Yeah, it's hilarious when we STAR TREK fans will pluck some image like this off a 45-year-old sub-pulp dimestore novel and try to mine it for possibilities in ship designs. It's silly fun, though.

 

[Kaiser]

Well, the review states that this ship was some Enterprise knockoff toy, probably made in knockoff-land China.

For some reason it kinda reminds me of the movie "Zapped," where they couldn't use a model of the Enterprise for rights purposes, so they kitbashed a pair of movie Enterprise nacelles and pylons onto a Millenium Falcon model:

http://ctupa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/z1.jpg

anymore views of this Trek/Wars Kitbash?

http://ctupa.com/blog/?p=971

Basically it's the top half of a Millenium Falcon (without the cockpit and radar dish), with Enterprise nacelles and pylons attached. There's some unidentifiable doodads attached to the nacelles, and a red light on top for the "bridge." The latter was what reminded me of this ship.

The model was probably thrown in the garbage right after the scene was filmed

Thanks for the link

Prolly so but who knows it might turn up for auction someday

 

[Albertese]

That warp-drive Falcon kitbash... I think the greeblies on the warp engines are derived from the guns and landing gear of the Falcon kit.
But I could be wrong, the pictures are rather blurry.

--Alex

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The USS "Falcon" looks a little NX-01-ish in it's proportions.

 

[Psion]

The USS "Falcon" looks a little NX-01-ish in it's proportions.

Didn't I already ... ?

Oh never mind.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The USS "Falcon" looks a little NX-01-ish in it's proportions.

Didn't I already ... ?

Oh never mind.

You can't expect me to remember two pages ago

 

[Psion]