How big was the Enterprise?

[Phaser Two]

I have several different WIP Enterprise sizes; for a 947' ship I use the 3/4 ratio rule on the hangar model, so the hangar's new dimensions are 122'x3/4 = 91.5' length, etc. The hangar door size fits fairly nice at this scale. I always insert a 24' shuttlecraft per Kirk's dialog in The Galileo Seven. (Note my curved corridors. )
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For a ship to fit the 122' length hangar model and also fitting it to the hangar doors again, I found a up-scaled ship size using the 4/3 ratio rule which is 947'x4/3 =1263' which works quite well. YMMV
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This is fantastic-looking. Thank you for sharing it. EPS conduits and systems! Why not? And you have main engineering on the same deck! But where are the huge library-shelf-like structures through which Kirk hunts Finney (and earlier, himself)?

AND ON EDIT: now you added the armory and ship's stores!! I love it! Busy deck.

 

[SatrianiRules]

LOA 947 feet.

And it's rather telling (and ironic) that the Klingon ship was first seen in "The Enterprise Incident" as a Klingon-built Romulan ship.

I love that story, it was a behind the scenes logistical problem. They had three Klingon Ship models and they only had one Romulan model (from Balance of Terror). even in 1968 the cost to build a ship model for filming was about $4000. Gene simply didn't have $8000 to spend for that episode, so they had to change the script wherein Romulans were "now using Klingon designs...".

 

[Henoch]

I love that story, it was a behind the scenes logistical problem. They had three Klingon Ship models and they only had one Romulan model (from Balance of Terror). even in 1968 the cost to build a ship model for filming was about $4000. Gene simply didn't have $8000 to spend for that episode, so they had to change the script wherein Romulans were "now using Klingon designs...".

Plus, after Balance of Terror, Wah Chang took Romulan model home where it mysteriously "disappeared" (rumor is he destroyed it in his backyard so it couldn't be used again). Because Chang wasn't in the union, Desilu couldn't pay for it.

 

[UssGlenn]

I love that story, it was a behind the scenes logistical problem. They had three Klingon Ship models and they only had one Romulan model (from Balance of Terror). even in 1968 the cost to build a ship model for filming was about $4000. Gene simply didn't have $8000 to spend for that episode, so they had to change the script wherein Romulans were "now using Klingon designs...".

The multiple ships are all the same model, composited in to the scene 3 times. The Romulan model wasn't available for filming at all, as mentioned above.

 

[Tomalak]

Plus AMT had bankrolled the new model and wanted it to have some screen time to sell model kits.