Why the Round2 NCC-1701 was pushed back.

[Albertese]

That makes a lot of sense... I wasn't aware of just how popular the 1/350 scale was for other types of models.

Thanks.

sorry to necro-post, but i'm new, and just stumbled across this.

it is more or less irrelevant now due to everything being CG, but it goes back to the days of physical models used for shooting.

"build em around 3 feet, any smaller and it just looks small, any larger and it just costs too much"

Well, I dunno about that. While the original concept model of the Enterprise was 33" the one built for production photography was about 11 feet long. The Botany Bay was IIRC around 4'. The Enterprise for TMP was about 5' long. The V-ger spacecraft was over 50' long. So long they couldn't photograph both ends of it at the same time. E-D was at least two different models, 4' and the earlier 6'. The DS9 model was IIRC around 13' in diameter. Voyager was something like 5' long. And not just Trek. The "usual" Millennium Falcon was 5' wide (though smaller ones were built too for longer shots). The ISD was about 4' long. Princess Leia's blockade runner was over 6' long. The podracers from Episode I were also over 6' long (I've seen all these Star Wars models in person at a traveling exhibit at OMSI here in Portland a few years ago. Took about 1,500 pics.) Don't even get me started about Lord of the Rings and King Kong or any other WETA Workshop project. So most photographic models are considerably larger than 3'. Those smaller are really the exceptions.

*End rant mode*

Sorry about that. I've been obsessed with movie models since I was a wee lad so i just couldn't contain myself.

--Alex

 

[Captain Robert April]

It probably goes more to what makes a good display size for models of battleships and aircraft carriers, mainly for office displays and museums. Something of a professional standard, as opposed to the dinky little models preferred by the average 12 year old (that is, preferred by the average parent of the average 12 year old, since it's obvious the average 12 year old really wants the biggest model he can get his grubby little hands one, so he can float it in the neighbor's pool and stage an epic naval battle with the leftover fireworks from July 4th).

 

[Albertese]

^^^

Correct. I don't often totally agree with CRA but in this case, he is absolutely correct.

--Alex

 

[Maurice]

The Enterprise for TMP was about 5' long.

Closer to 7'. The Phase II model was closer to 4' and deemed too small.

 

[Albertese]

Good to know. All those numbers were just ballpark, off the top of my head. I didn't look them up or anything. Thanks for the correction!



--Alex