NCC-1701 / Year 5

[Orne]

"Captain's Log, StarDate 2270.3.....We are a weary ship. Intelligence reports have reached Enterprise that a Romulan armada is massing just beyond the Neutral Zone. A brief yet thorough upgrade of Enterprise has recently been put to the test: the Klingons, restrained by the Organian Treaty from overt hostilities, have supported an immense Romulan military buildup. Violent forays into the Federation, launched from the Neutral Zone and undoubtedly Romulan ships with improved cloaking devices, have led StarFleet Command to bolster a stern presence. Enterprise has been at the center of every engagement. Those few suspected Romulan ships that haven't evaded destruction, in turn self-destructed to avoid identification. It is only a matter of time before the Romulans decide that StarFleet may be weakened enough by the constant incursions, and unleash their juggernaut.
"We are a weary ship......but Enterprise stands ready."

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"Chief Engineer's Log.....To counter the loss of half the Constitution cruisers in StarFleet service since the beginning of our five-year mission in 2266, Enterprise was put through a rapid upgrade, adding phaser and photon torpedo emplacements, and a radical armoring of the hull utilizing neutronium foils 'skinned' from the hull of the Doomsday Machine, a procedure crafted by Commander Spock and successfully rendered by StarFleet's Corp of Engineers. A new warp-engine - developed from data collected by Enterprise during several alien encounters which upgraded the ship's propulsion system - now capably delivers Warp 11.
"There's an old Vulcan proverb: "Does it have a Hemi?" The old girl does, in spades....."

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Original resin and vacform model built from lathed/carved poplar-wood vacform plugs, with handbuilt custom internal armature. Some detail-parts created from Evergreen sheet/strip plastic. Modified dorsal pylon includes extended saucer connection, and scratchbuilt photon torpedo bay, two forward, one aft, modified from ERTL Reliant kit parts. Phaser turrets and smaller running lights are 3mm glass beads; nav-lights are 5mm beads. Rear bridge extension with airlock hatch scratchbuilt from sheet plastic.

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Model spraybombed with Duplicolor Pewter and Light Blue metallics, with Krylon clears for finish. Lettering is from the Polar Lights Enterprise kit and Greywolf decal sheets. The pennants were cut from Goldberg trimsheet. The windows, sensor domes, and clear nacelle domes were painted with acrylics mixed with glow-medium. Gridlines drawn in with ink pens.

The 'chase' photo from the Feb. art challenge:

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The F-104C that I shot separately closing for the missile-shot (Sidewinders not in view on pylons beneath fuselage):

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More recent photos, added some extra detail like the ion pods above the cove-section, and reworked the maneuvering thruster panels. Still have to add the satellite-ejector 'bomb-bay' seen in the re-mastered version of Operation Annihilate.

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[TheCanon72]

Great stuff! :thumbsup:

What ENT's In a Mirror Darkly model should have looked like.

mmm...

I've seen this before...

where?...

 

[Kaiser]

Wow thats a Cool model and Design Concept maybe its also what some of the TOS Constitution like designs from Ships of the Starfleet by Todd Allen Guenther would look like in the 2270's and 80's

 

[USS Mariner]

Bigger photos please.

 

[Orne]

Mariner - I'm nearly at the upper limit of storage space on that website, and have already deleted a number of photos to make room for what's there currently.

 

[USS Mariner]

It's just really hard to appreciate your work when the photos are so small.

 

[Philo]

I really like this a lot. Beautiful colour scheme. It's unique and attractive. I like the detailing as well. My only quibble is that it seems overly metallic and the paint wash you used betrays the scale a little bit. But those are only minor considerations.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Seems a bit overwrought to me, but then, I'm a diehard traditionalist in matters like this.