Sorry to hear that, poped together quite easily for me, but I agree, flash and the large connectors to the model are crap, but for a Polar lights kit, its pretty good, for me it stayed together without glue,
I love the USS Discovery
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Then it's just shit, not the shit
I was trying to be sarcastic and failed.
I guess they all come out different...... I am happy you had a good experience but I've had that happen before to me with Polar Lights kits, I bought two of the same item and one went well and the other didn't.
I might try and find the Eaglemoss version on the weekend.
@Cyanide Muffin
Finishing up my Polar Lights Discovery Kit.. Ended up painting it Tamiya Bronze, and the Decals are somewhat surprisingly quite excellent! I still hate the wallpaper effect, but at this scale.. owell
Just a few decals left to put on
Finishing up my Polar Lights Discovery Kit.. Ended up painting it Tamiya Bronze, and the Decals are somewhat surprisingly quite excellent! I still hate the wallpaper effect, but at this scale.. owell
Just a few decals left to put on
@Cyanide Muffin
Finishing up my Polar Lights Discovery Kit.. Ended up painting it Tamiya Bronze, and the Decals are somewhat surprisingly quite excellent! I still hate the wallpaper effect, but at this scale.. owell
Your Disco looks amazing.
BTW what's POTT mean?
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Planet of the Titans. A Star Trek movie that would've been made in the '70s. You can find out more about it here.
This is a film I would've liked to have seen. It would be nice if it were somehow re-purposed for Discovery.
Obligatory Planet of the Titans USS Enterprise and USS Discovery comparison.
Bad joke. Planet of the Titans has been decriminalized in most states and is even legal in some. Imagining what POTT would've been like has medicinal uses too.
In my head I like to do funny things like imagine the Shenzhou landing since it did hover nicely in the atmosphere in the pilot to pick up Burnham and Georgiou. That's why the nacelles were on the bottom. They had little landing legs that popped out like Voyager.
...What I like to do is imagine that back when built, the Shenzhou had round, shortish ENT-style nacelles right about where the eventual version has those mid-pylon rods, and looked more or less like a bloated version of the Poseidon class that in the games is the nacelles-down counterpart to Archer's Enterprise. Things moved on, though, and eventually Starfleet sawed off those round things and installed the new, much bigger pair farther out, at the ends of a single arching wing that was bolted onto the ends of the original pylons, thus creating the double pylon layout.
It was around then that the ships lost quite a few of their smooth cover plates, too, resulting in the opening from which Burnham emerges for her spacewalk in the pilot, among others...
Timo Saloniemi
It was around then that the ships lost quite a few of their smooth cover plates, too, resulting in the opening from which Burnham emerges for her spacewalk in the pilot, among others...
Timo Saloniemi
Obligatory Planet of the Titans USS Enterprise and USS Discovery comparison.
I've always liked that design, but wouldn't have liked it as the Enterprise. Was it meant to be a refit or an entirely new ship in POTT?
ETA: I found this on Wiki:
A hell of a "refit".
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The design grew on me.
Once I got the 2018 Hallmark ornament and was able to examine it from other angles, I really grew to love it. From certain angles, the ship looks great! It looks weird from the profile view, though. Because everything is more or less leveled, viewing it from the side shows how flat the vessel's design is. That's my only complaint.
I really hated the original version of it that we saw in the first teaser trailer for the show. The modifications they made to modernize it made it look very nice. Though I will say that this early design of it does make it look more pre-TOS than what the ship ended up looking like. I remember this trailer fueled a lot of speculation over whether the ship was some weird Starfleet/Klingon hybrid design.
Side comment: I wish we had seen asteroid spacedocks on the show.
Once I got the 2018 Hallmark ornament and was able to examine it from other angles, I really grew to love it. From certain angles, the ship looks great! It looks weird from the profile view, though. Because everything is more or less leveled, viewing it from the side shows how flat the vessel's design is. That's my only complaint.
I really hated the original version of it that we saw in the first teaser trailer for the show. The modifications they made to modernize it made it look very nice. Though I will say that this early design of it does make it look more pre-TOS than what the ship ended up looking like. I remember this trailer fueled a lot of speculation over whether the ship was some weird Starfleet/Klingon hybrid design.
Side comment: I wish we had seen asteroid spacedocks on the show.
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Hey Hey I was watching TNG and the episode "Booby Trap" in the holo recreation of Leah Brahms laboratory there's a TOS style Enterprise that looks even more different to the one on the show. Weird Nacelles with no red caps.
This one? It was either redone for (I wanna say) DS9 or they made a similar one for Sisko's office (or Picard's ready room?).
This build of the AMT refit kit has the nacelles turned on their sides, the saucer window pieces painted black and the whole thing painted silver.
ETA: Here it is in Picard's ready room (best pic I could find).
Naturally, since the lab is involved in engine development specifically, it makes sense that there would be tabletop models of famed engine testbeds there!
(Brahms would be a bit young to be involved in development of the original E-D, or even its engines, but could have worked on an upgrade. And indeed the number of warp coils inside the nacelles of the E-D is at odds with the corresponding number of the Yamato, judging by the relevant Okudagrams; an upgrade may have taken place, possibly already before launch.)
As for the tabletop models seen, I doubt they are the same. The Brahms lab one has the nacelles on the side, and the saucer rim window pieces are simply left out (they're a chore to glue on, for a quick-and-dirty job like this), while the much earlier one in Picard's Ready Room (and on some other E-D rooms in the early seasons) is more or less properly assembled and indeed sprayed silver.
Timo Saloniemi
(Brahms would be a bit young to be involved in development of the original E-D, or even its engines, but could have worked on an upgrade. And indeed the number of warp coils inside the nacelles of the E-D is at odds with the corresponding number of the Yamato, judging by the relevant Okudagrams; an upgrade may have taken place, possibly already before launch.)
As for the tabletop models seen, I doubt they are the same. The Brahms lab one has the nacelles on the side, and the saucer rim window pieces are simply left out (they're a chore to glue on, for a quick-and-dirty job like this), while the much earlier one in Picard's Ready Room (and on some other E-D rooms in the early seasons) is more or less properly assembled and indeed sprayed silver.
Timo Saloniemi
But which version of the Enterprise was it supposed to be in Brahm's office? None that we actually know of, or was it a sister ship?
I'm just wondering how many ships in Starfleet have variations of that same structure, and why turn the nacelles on their sides, that can't be efficient for the warp drive?
I'm just wondering how many ships in Starfleet have variations of that same structure, and why turn the nacelles on their sides, that can't be efficient for the warp drive?
The one in Picard's ready room almost looks like it only has one nacelle.
Do we know what episode(s) it appeared in? I have the blu-rays and could get a better screen grab of it.
Like @Timo said, it could have been a test study model, or a model of an experimental ship they actually built.
