Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

[Ethros]

The magazine is a little disappointing; literally nothing on the ship, just three articles on random stuff from First Contact.

But then again in all the regular issues I don't think we've ever had any articles about First Contact at all, so it's great for some more. Certainly haven't been any about Alice Krige and the Borg Queen.

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[Doom Shepherd]

Klingon D-5, Vidiian ship, and the Swarm ship arrive in my local comic book shop next Wednesday.

 

[juventuz]

Gotta admit, kind of disappointed with Eaglemoss right now. I ordered the Oberth ship on Tuesday morning, payment was taken out of my account the same day. Received my initial order email immediately after ordering, no issues. As of yesterday afternoon I hadn't received a shipment email so I called them to see what's up. The rep said that the order had been sent to the fulfillment center and it would be shipped yesterday, I'd get the email before they closed. Well it's the next day and I still haven't heard anything from them. I don't bother emailing them because they never respond to any emails I've ever sent. I've never had an order take this long to ship from them. Not only do they raise the prices of everything, they now take even longer to send stuff out?

 

[137th Gebirg]

The wheels seem to be falling off this wagon. Every aspect of their US branch seems to be collapsing. They must have some real low-dollar chimps working there in Pennsyltucky.

 

[DimesDan]

Gotta admit, kind of disappointed with Eaglemoss right now. I ordered the Oberth ship on Tuesday morning, payment was taken out of my account the same day. Received my initial order email immediately after ordering, no issues. As of yesterday afternoon I hadn't received a shipment email so I called them to see what's up. The rep said that the order had been sent to the fulfillment center and it would be shipped yesterday, I'd get the email before they closed. Well it's the next day and I still haven't heard anything from them. I don't bother emailing them because they never respond to any emails I've ever sent. I've never had an order take this long to ship from them. Not only do they raise the prices of everything, they now take even longer to send stuff out?

Are you concerned because you haven't received the ship yet or that you don't have an email letting you know It's on its way? If the former, as It's Friday morning for you, I would be very impressed if you had it yet, if the latter, have you checked your spam folder or if they have the correct email address?

 

[juventuz]

Concerned because it's taken them a while to ship, all of my previous orders were sent out the day after ordering. It usually takes 5-7 days to get to me once it's shipped, which is another issue in and of itself considering I'm about 4 1/2 hours away from the facility. I called them this morning about not receiving the shipping email and they claim that it will now be going out today, when asked what the delay was they had no answer.

 

[DimesDan]

Concerned because it's taken them a while to ship, all of my previous orders were sent out the day after ordering. It usually takes 5-7 days to get to me once it's shipped, which is another issue in and of itself considering I'm about 4 1/2 hours away from the facility. I called them this morning about not receiving the shipping email and they claim that it will now be going out today, when asked what the delay was they had no answer.

Ah gotcha. Although to be honest, time has no bearing on distance really when delivering something, a first class item of post will still take a day to reach someone even if they live down the road. There is also the fact, they may be understaffed, more orders than usual or something else.

 

[Nate]

Also keep in mind that this Monday was a holiday in the US so they could be running behind with orders from the weekend & that could push everything back a little.

 

[DimesDan]

Also keep in mind that this Monday was a holiday in the US so they could be running behind with orders from the weekend & that could push everything back a little.

I was unaware of that, would explain most of @juventuz's apparent issues.

 

[Ethros]

I've ordered plenty of things from the Eaglemoss UK site over the last three years. I've never once had a shipment e-mail; with them you just get it when you get it. So count yourselves lucky you ever even get one at all in America.

 

[DimesDan]

I've ordered plenty of things from the Eaglemoss UK site over the last three years. I've never once had a shipment e-mail; with them you just get it when you get it. So count yourselves lucky you ever even get one at all in America.

Of the three things I've ordered through them direct, I have confirmation of purchase emails, no dispatch emails though.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Eaglemoss did send me an email once to apologise that an item was not available and asked what, if anything, I'd like to substitute. When the order was delivered, I discovered that it not only included the substitute item but the "unavailable" one. I wasn't charged for both. Can't complain about that at all but it did make me wonder how Eaglemoss can stay profitable.

 

[Michael]

In Germany we just got the Voth city ship. Nice model and all, but one thing stood out to me: Isn't the underside of the ship just a flattened copy of the top half? And what's more, in the magazine itself there is a screenshot from the episode where we see the underside and it's not flat at all, but bulbous as the top! It's also irritating that they didn't at least try to add the various rows of window lights. That would have helped to sell the huge scale of the ship.

It's also a shame the final CGI model didn't resemble Sternbach's last concept sketch more, because it's beautiful and is even better at suggesting the huge scale of the ship.

 

[Ethros]

Looking at various Star Trek ships comparison pictures, Voyager is the same length as the Enterprise-E nacelles. Which with my new Jumbo-E I can see actually works out the same scale compared to the regular Voyager model.

I always knew the E was way bigger, but to actually hold scale models in your hand and compare them is so weird! Like wow, Voyager is utterly dwarfed in mass by the E. Makes you think if it were the E that had been lost in the Delta Quadrant they could seriously kicked the utter crap out of those pesky little Kazon Raiders early on!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Looking at various Star Trek ships comparison pictures, Voyager is the same length as the Enterprise-E nacelles. Which with my new Jumbo-E I can see actually works out the same scale compared to the regular Voyager model.

I always knew the E was way bigger, but to actually hold scale models in your hand and compare them is so weird! Like wow, Voyager is utterly dwarfed in mass by the E. Makes you think if it were the E that had been lost in the Delta Quadrant they could seriously kicked the utter crap out of those pesky little Kazon Raiders early on!

I believe the USS Voyager is supposed to be 345 metres long. For comparison, a Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier is about 333 metres long.

 

[Hey Missy]

^ And the Ent-E is close to 700 meters.

 

[DimesDan]

Looking at various Star Trek ships comparison pictures, Voyager is the same length as the Enterprise-E nacelles. Which with my new Jumbo-E I can see actually works out the same scale compared to the regular Voyager model.

I always knew the E was way bigger, but to actually hold scale models in your hand and compare them is so weird! Like wow, Voyager is utterly dwarfed in mass by the E. Makes you think if it were the E that had been lost in the Delta Quadrant they could seriously kicked the utter crap out of those pesky little Kazon Raiders early on!

The Refit (and I suppose the original Enterprise) are pretty much within scale with the Jumbo-D.

 

[Tomalak]

I believe the USS Voyager is supposed to be 345 metres long. For comparison, a Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier is about 333 metres long.

I always thought Voyager had such a tiny crew for its size - I get that they lost a lot when they got taken into the Delta Quadrant, and the ship had a very high level of automation, but 150 people rattling around in a ship that big seems a little low.

I suppose you could argue they were on a glorified shakedown cruise, hunting the Maquis ship, and didn't have any of the usual specialists they would have when on a proper mission.

Alternatively, 90% of the internal volume was devoted to shuttlecraft.

 

[t_smitts]

I always thought Voyager had such a tiny crew for its size - I get that they lost a lot when they got taken into the Delta Quadrant, and the ship had a very high level of automation, but 150 people rattling around in a ship that big seems a little low.

I suppose you could argue they were on a glorified shakedown cruise, hunting the Maquis ship, and didn't have any of the usual specialists they would have when on a proper mission.

Alternatively, 90% of the internal volume was devoted to shuttlecraft.

I think starships have always had lighter crews than the equivalent navy ships today. We've certainly never seen as many as the several thousand on a modern carrier.

Of course there a real-life reason for that. When TNG started, Roddenberry supposedly wanted the "D" to have a crew of at least a couple thousand but was understandably told having that many background people would get rather expensive.

Edited to add: And yeah, they were definitely playing fast and loose with the size of that shuttlebay.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Of course there a real-life reason for that. When TNG started, Roddenberry supposedly wanted the "D" to have a crew of at least a couple thousand but was understandably told having that many background people would get rather expensive.

IIRC, both TOS and TNG started off having a ton of extras walking the corridors making them look like heavily populated vessels, matching Charlie X's description of "a city in space". That number quickly dwindled to main characters and a small handful of extras by the time their respective second seasons rolled around.