No, the Planet Killer is fully CGI. No maquette.
Doomsday Machine - Modernized - Kelvin Timeline Project
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No, the Planet Killer is fully CGI. No maquette.
Kirk and Decker do say that it destroyed the third planet in the system. Since it is basically just a self-sustaining weapon, it's reasonable to assume it destroys an entire planet but only consumes as much of the debris as it needs to stay operational, then continues on to the next one and repeats.
Oh fooey. I thought DB had an update for us! 
Since it's hull is neutronium, I wonder if the builders somehow pulled it whole from the source, and shaped it as it was extruded?
I have a theory that neutron stars extrude neutronium spikes all the time, in the inch long size, and every so often a huge one starts pushing its way out, only to fall back in. The builders could have grabbed one such and pulled it out until it just stopped producing and it pulled free. It's long, open on the end, and pure neutronium, just what they want. That it's also ugly goes without saying.
Back in the 2000's someone (sorry, don't remember who) posted a monstrous rendering of the planet killer in this forum, and it looked pretty much exactly like what you've described. It was a horrifically-tentacled thing that was nothing less than the pure, undistilled manifestation of evil.
It was magnificent.
Sure I wish I had saved a copy of the image or the creator's contact information.
Back in the 2000's someone (sorry, don't remember who) posted a monstrous rendering of the planet killer in this forum, and it looked pretty much exactly like what you've described. It was a horrifically-tentacled thing that was nothing less than the pure, undistilled manifestation of evil.
It was magnificent.
Sure I wish I had saved a copy of the image or the creator's contact information.
Sounds very Lovecraftian!
This was my interpretation, with a similar underlying explanation from thirteen years ago:
Back in the 2000's someone (sorry, don't remember who) posted a monstrous rendering of the planet killer in this forum, and it looked pretty much exactly like what you've described. It was a horrifically-tentacled thing that was nothing less than the pure, undistilled manifestation of evil.
It was magnificent.
Sure I wish I had saved a copy of the image or the creator's contact information.
I think I remember that one ... didn't the artist animate that one ... undulating?
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It's appearance should not be changed from the original, since it existed before the divergence from the original to the kelvin timeline. I have read that it may be as large as 10,000 meters long. Are the Abrams Enterprises larger than the originals? It would be interesting to see the difference. It would also be interesting to see it destroy a planet with a civilization and population equivalent to earth's in 1966, from their point of view from prior to the attack to the final planetary breakup. It would also be cool to watch the Constellation crew and Decker as the planet killer attacks the third planet.