Star Trek: Starships Model/Magazine Subscription

Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by trekker670, May 21, 2013.

  1. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    Indeed - makes sense. Probably why a number of these things like the Vancouver have started popping up there, both in personal photos and for sale.
     
  2. Galaxy

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    There is a German store which has a relatively good offering at fair prices. Not sure how good they are at international shipping.

    https://www.filmwelt-center.com/de/filmwelt-shop/star-trek-raumschiff.html
     
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  3. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    Thank you for that. Some good stuff in there.
     
  4. Paul755

    Paul755 Commodore Commodore

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    From Ben Robinson
    https://twitter.com/bencsrobinson/status/1602657311012651010?s=61&t=xo29CaiM4pk71G8lY33WAQ

    in another tweet he says there are no records of pre-orders, so it will be first come, first served.
     
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  5. David cgc

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    Hm. Did I really want a T'Plana Hath (the Discovery one, not the First Contact one), or did I just want it because it was twelve bucks?

    Either way, I do appreciate having one last shot at filling out my row of Doctors Who without having to resort to eBay, though I doubt there's a crate of Nines and Fours that EM was just sitting on.
     
  6. Paul755

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    I just want a Cerritos and Lower Decks Titan.

    Waiting for them to hopefully make “regular sized” versions was such a massive mistake.
     
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  8. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    All these things (should they come to pass) are very good news. Thanks very much for the updates - keep 'em coming!
     
  9. Robin Bland

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    The LD Titan was actually the last ship I bought before E'Moss officially went dark. I haven't regretted it. It really works as an "animated" XL.
     
  10. 137th Gebirg

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    Here’s hoping for plentiful Cerritos and Vancouvers.
     
  11. drt

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    Yeah, I'm curious what the makeup of this stock actually is, probably restocks of Disco ships, lol.
     
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  12. NCC-73515

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    here's hoping for affordable individual shuttles :D
     
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  13. Paul755

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    It’s gonna be all the crappy Discovery Klingon stuff and the STO ships.
     
  14. 137th Gebirg

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    I intentionally held off on getting the STO ships until I completed some other sets. Maybe it’s time I get them. Maybe they’ll be made available at “bargain basement” prices. :D
     
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  15. drt

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    I was never that stoked on the STO ships, I just have the Ent-F and the Chimera. The only Trek ship left I want is the Reliant concept, maybe the LD Titan and Vancouver if I come across them for non-silly prices.

    Where I f’d up is I planned to get the Galactica collection, but never got around to it, more likely that ship has jumped away. Whoops…
     
  16. t_smitts

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    I'm flying out to see my folks on xmas day, but before I go, I made a quick stop at my local store yesterday and got myself a model. He doesn't have much left that I don't already have, but I ended up getting issue #92, the Medusan ship.

    Apparently the concept was that the Medusans don't have their own ships, so they borrowed some from the Federation, so we get this spherical-hull shaped ship with some elemants similar to the Daedalus and Connie. I could imagine the Feds have others of this design for themselves as either Starfleet or civilian transports. Always nice to have another TOS-era Fed ship design. We pretty much just have the Connie, the Antares, the Bonaventure (sort of) and this one.

    Not terribly exciting, but I like how the model slips into the stand without any resistance. The soft color on the Bussards is nice, too.

    Here's hoping next year brings some good news on the remaining wares!
     
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  17. Unicron

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    Interestingly, the TNG Officer's Manual for the FASA Trek RPG has deck plans for the Galaxy class, with several decks (such as engineering) having specific interfaces for Medusan navigators and crew. It's a rather cool idea, IMO.
     
  18. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    Wasn’t there also a reference to the Cetacean research lab? I think the FASA stuff may have been based off of Rick Sternbach’s blueprint set, which had all those conceptual things. Sadly, we wouldn’t actually see a Cetacean lab in operation for another 3+ decades when it finally appeared in LDS.
     
  19. Unicron

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    Not that I recall. There's a deck called the Interactive Navigational Control Center (first pic), which has specific habitats and control systems for Medusans along with a traditional interface for human or other non-Medusan crew. On looking at the plans again, I was mistaken about Engineering having Medusan interfaces but Auxiliary Control (second pic) does have them, and it's depicted as being more like an extra battle bridge. The text doesn't offer any expanded details about the Medusan complement, but does suggest that the Galaxy class uses an advanced propulsion dubbed "ultra warp" because it relies on generating multiple warp fields that overlap, where older vessels use a single warp bubble and transwarp vessels combine that with a form of projection (transwarp being the next major step in FASA's take). This might explain why having a Medusan complement could be highly valuable, even essential, because the concept of "ultra warp" is an emerging one.

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  20. Dukhat

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    I think the Cetacean Ops was from Sternbach’s Tech Manual, not FASA’s.
     
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