Man builds 23 foot TOS Enterprise!

[spockboy]

A man named Thompson Ong posted this on Facebook.

Spockboy

 

[jaime]

Dear God man it's playing games with life.

The average Mrs is gonna worry about finding space for an Ertl kit. Good luck hanging that from your kids ceiling.

 

[Terok Nor]

Amazing. Great job.

 

[Ronald Held]

Looks good from.the image.

 

[spockboy]

More accurate...

Spockboy

 

[MarsWeeps]

More pics or it didn't happen.

 

[shapeshifter]

Not bad, not bad at all. The lights do make a hellava difference.

Hope he does the Refit next.

 

[jaime]

It's impressive in all seriousness. There's a nice touch of humour with the giant stand that's like the ones we put under kits.

 

[Kor]

It would be really cool if you could detach the exterior paneling, and it had detailed miniature sets inside.
And it would be doubly cool if those were in scale with the 4.5" action figures from the '90s.

Kor

 

[jaime]

It would be really cool if you could detach the exterior paneling, and it had detailed miniature sets inside.
And it would be doubly cool if those were in scale with the 4.5" action figures from the '90s.

Kor

From the looks of the windows and the guy standing there, it may be in scale with the reboot figures or the galloob range.

 

[FormerLurker]

How big would it have to be to be in scale with the old Mego figures?

Pondering the imponderable.

 

[JoeP]

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

[HIjol]

How big would it have to be to fit my crew and I?



Warp Speed, now...

Seriously, very cool, and clearly a labor of love!

 

[Redfern]

How big would it have to be to be in scale with the old Mego figures?

Assuming you mean the "classic" 8 inch tall "cloth dressed" dolls, they are roughly 1/9th scale. (72 inches divided by 8 equals 9.) So a "miniature" in scale with them would be just over 105 feet...assuming we go with the length of 947 feet stated in a lot of the older reference materials.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[JKM]

Being rather familiar with how Photoshop works, I'd have to see a lot more of the in-progress pictures to take that pic as being real.

 

[Warped9]

Being rather familiar with how Photoshop works, I'd have to see a lot more of the in-progress pictures to take that pic as being real.

Agreed. I find this suspect. He's apparently done a good job with some details and yet he's quite off on others. Why go through all that trouble to make something so large and not sweat the details?

If I had the means and skill to build something like this or to have it built for me I'd probably be looking to show it off somewhere for others to enjoy. I've long had the fantasy of having a full size TOS shuttlecraft built with scaled (and working) interior and have it available for conventions. I think fans would go nuts for something like that..

 

[scotpens]

Being rather familiar with how Photoshop works, I'd have to see a lot more of the in-progress pictures to take that pic as being real.

Yeah, that was my first reaction -- it's probably a fake. But it's a good fake, if that's what it is.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The idea of an Enterprise cutaway done at something like this scale is a mouthwatering proposition:

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[MarsWeeps]

Being rather familiar with how Photoshop works, I'd have to see a lot more of the in-progress pictures to take that pic as being real.

Well, the second picture (with lights) obviously has the saucer section photoshopped to fix the mistakes in the first one. I would think if the whole thing was photoshopped, the mistakes wouldn't have been there to begin with.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Glad I'm not the only one whose first thought was "that saucer rim is way too thick".