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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Drool....

It's all stuff from the tweaking that TMP recieved for DVD.
The K'Tinga is still painted and greebled in it's STVI configuration!

Un-FUCKING BELIEVABLE!
I own Night of the Creeps and never caught that it's the same model as the Promellian battleship!

The rest of the coolness.
 

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :
 
Hmm so the D-7 TMP version has an aft shuttlebay...nice.

Is it me or that Navigator study model looking a bit like the Delta Flyer...
 

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
 
Wait, so in the original shots of TMP the D7 has an aft torpedo launcher, and in the new-model shots it hasn't? Even though it fires at V'Ger's probe from it?
Kind of inattentive model builders.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Both versions have both a shuttlebay and an aft torp launcher- the mods had nothing to do with that area.
Most of the mods concentrated on the nacelles, boom and bridge areas.
Lots of photo-etched brass was added (including that strange "sombreo" added to the bridge tower for some reason).

..and, obviously, it got re-painted.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
It looked to me like the aft torpedo launcher of the K't'inga got covered up, as well. But that doesn't mean they didn't change it back for the TMP shots. (Besides, didn't they just do some supplemental work to enhance the effects, rather than re-doing every single effects shot of the movie?)
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
Here is that interesting Klingon insignia again: Here
 

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
 
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But that doesn't mean they didn't change it back for the TMP shots.

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that interesting Klingon insignia

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Maybe it's like their "Jolly Rogers", just a squadron.
 

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
 
Or an emblem of the Chancellor, like the presidential seal. (No pinniped jokes, dammit!)
 

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Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
 
Interesting, part of the back of the K'T'inga ended up being the top of the Maquis fighter.
 

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Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
 
Uh...just to clear up the confusion, there was NO new motion control work done for the TMP DE. Everything done was CGI, and I don't think they ended up doing anything new with the Klingon ships, only with the Enterprise and V'Ger. The old models were onhand for research purposes.

-MMoM
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 

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Originally posted by Shik:
Or an emblem of the Chancellor, like the presidential seal. (No pinniped jokes, dammit!)

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All the K'Tingas have that- even the DS9 ones.

Hmmm..I may add it the battleship I'm building now- just to be ornery.
 

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Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
 
The emblem was added to the model during its "refurbishment" for TUC. Since the model was never repained again after that, it bears the Kronos One markings in all of its subsequent appearances. I do not think the CGI version has it, though. Neither does Greg Jein's smaller "replica" model used in "Flashback" (VGR).

-MMoM
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
It's on the TMP version- It has to be: the old ERTL model from the early 1980's has those on it's decal sheet.
 

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Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
 
I don't think so. Check out the screencaps here and studio model pics here and here. Are you sure they were the same markings? I wonder if it's possible that the people who repainted the model for TUC were inspired by the kit decals.

-MMoM
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Hmmmm- that's gonna bug me now.
I have to track down the instructions to make sure...

While all the pics are of the TUC version, this is an incredible resource for pics.
 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
 
Wow, this guy has lot of cool shit! Did see his model of the tripod from "War of the Worlds"? It's looks cooler that I what I remember from the movie.


Is he God?
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
No, but that model is not a prop- it's an incredible resin model that costs about $300 and was mastered by the same guy that worked on the movie's model (it's not all done via CGI).

Worthwhile- it's 24" tall!

I'm very tempted to buy one and converty it to match the book's description (mainly by adding a seperate "heat ray" box-like device and the tubelike Black Smoke chemical weapon that was, sadly ignored by the Speilberg movie).
 

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Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
 
It should be noted that the aft torpedo tube of the TMP K't'inga is also its aft motion control rod mounting hole.

So even though the model has this parabolic dish thingy covering the aft hole in those photographs, the dish appears to only be cosmetic fluff for hiding the banality of the "insert rod here" feature when the model goes on display. The dish did not appear in the actual movie (neither in the original version or the DE).

Jein's later, smaller model has a different covering over the aft motion control hole - a complex inverted-Y greeblie bit that may or may not feature an aft torpedo tube of smaller caliber. This is what is seen in the CGI ships and the Qo'noS 1, too.

Timo Saloniemi
 

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Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
No, but that model is not a prop- it's an incredible resin model that costs about $300 and was mastered by the same guy that worked on the movie's model (it's not all done via CGI).

Worthwhile- it's 24" tall!

I'm very tempted to buy one and converty it to match the book's description (mainly by adding a seperate "heat ray" box-like device and the tubelike Black Smoke chemical weapon that was, sadly ignored by the Speilberg movie).

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