Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

Yes, I got duplicate emails for all my July shipments recently.

 

I'm moving at the end of the month and everything I buy until then is one more thing I'll have to pack. Still, I took one more trip to my local store (which I'll actually be closer to at my new place). This time I got two ships. The Xindi-Insectoid Scoutship and the Devore Warship.

I've made a point of getting all the Xindi ships (apart from a certain one yet to be made that I've complained about on here more than once). The scoutship isn't one of the more memorable ships, but they did a superb job on this one. It's pretty much entirely die-cast (which is good, because those prongs look as fragile as the guns on a Klingon BOP). It's pretty aggressive-looking from most angles, but looks a little funny from straight on. Not much to say. Well done, Eaglemoss.

Now, onto the Devore warship. Most of the alien-of-the-week ships from Voyager don't really interest me, but this one, for whatever reason, really caught my eye on the shelf a while back and it's one I was determined to get later. I actually didn't remember which way the ship was supposed be oriented and, given the arrowhead shape and the direction the (possible) engine exhausts were facing, I assumed the arrowhead tip was the front. (Apparently, the designer himself couldn't decide and just left that choice up to the folks who made the digital model). But I found a clip from the episode "Counterpint" on Youtube an determined that it's actually the other way around. The ship actually fits in the stand either way, but definitely goes in more comfortably the right way.

I do think that the other way seems more appropriate (apart from that unsightly shuttle or cargo bay opening on the nose/tail). I know aerodynamics are not a thing in space, but still...

Nevertheless, well done, again, Eaglemoss. I like this one.

 

Any word on a release date for the Defiant prototype concept?

 

Wow! After all this time, a new ship appears out of a 24 year-old movie, from the mouth of its creator, no less. How did everyone miss this?

 

I thought you meant the Millennium Falcon.

 

Okay, I have a vague recollection of that ship, now that I’ve seen orthos of it. I think I remember seeing it in the old Star Trek official magazine with all of Yeager’s concepts, or maybe it was in John Eaves’ artbook. Never knew it actually appeared on-screen, though. Thank you for posting that!

Did the Falcon model ever have an official Trek-assigned name in that fleet?

 

I don’t own a falcon model. Would be cool to have one with Starfleet markings on it

 

The Class of ‘96 never keeps on giving.

There is a YouTube channel where individuals craft little seen ships from RotJ and First Contact, and came up with a Feddie Falcon

 

Reading those twitter posts, it sounds like that SciFiDave dude is just trying very hard to convince both himself and others that he's seeing something that isn't actually there. The ship he's trying to make the 'Zandura' class is just a Norway:

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/firstcontacthd/firstcontacthd0221.jpg (the ship in question is at the right top of the screen)

The Zandura design wasn't used in FC. There was a piece of wreckage that doesn't seem to conform to any known ship, but it's not the 'Zandura class':

https://neutralzone.de/database/Federation/Starfleet/Zandura01.jpg

 

Are you talking about the ship right above the BoP in this scene? I think that's actually another shot of the Curry from a far distance (they composited shots of the same model here, one close up, one far away.)

http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/6x01/atimetostand_009.jpg