quote:Originally posted by Johnny: The Ambassador and Constellation have both been in the Ships of the Line calendars before. Snazzy cover, but the blurb definitely gives the impression that there won't be anything new. Poop.
The Ambassador is a completely new model. I know, I made it with my pal Simon
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That does look pretty cool. I think I only ever bought one of the calendars, so the book is looking pretty good to me.
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Mabye the Enterprise E has bee stealing it's food: that beergut might also explain the extra decks from Nemesis.
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Not how the physical model is though....I have a ton of reference pics of that and (to my eye at least) that one on the cover looks ...off.
Could just the tiny image posted is not great too.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Mabye the Enterprise E has bee stealing it's food: that beergut might also explain the extra decks from Nemesis.
Simple the E-E is a TARDIS. In First Contact itself - the number of decks changed. In Nemesis - the 'Viceroy' was knocked off by Riker on - I think - the bottom deck where he proceeded to fall at least another 10-20 decks. Ohhh! Maybe we can put Nemesis in the "The Final Frontier" basket... "life is but a dream". Nah TFF was better than Nem.
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quote:Originally posted by Johnny: The Ambassador and Constellation have both been in the Ships of the Line calendars before. Snazzy cover, but the blurb definitely gives the impression that there won't be anything new. Poop.
The Ambassador is a completely new model. I know, I made it with my pal Simon
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Well an Ambassador has been in the Calendar before, it was in the shot of all the Enterprises docked at a station.
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Not how the physical model is though....I have a ton of reference pics of that and (to my eye at least) that one on the cover looks ...off.
Could just the tiny image posted is not great too.
I know that ship like the back of my hand
That particular set of geometry was done by ILM for Insurrection. Muse took it, ported it to LW, reduced the texture resolution for TV use.
quote:Well an Ambassador has been in the Calendar before, it was in the shot of all the Enterprises docked at a station.
No shit, sherlock. Sean did that one, but it's total crap. It was just a redress of a public domain one he found apparently.
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Right, and that's all I said. That the Ambassador class had been in the Calendars before. You seem to have taken it to mean I thought it was your model in that calendar, when it was really the "total crap" one. Doesn't really matter to me whose model it was, since I was only describing the type of ship.
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I think "Johnny Sherlock" has a nice ring to it though.
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That's alright, we know the results will be worth the wait, the bribes, and that thing where Johnny was in a lace negligee on a street corner. Really, what was THAT part all about..?
My previous post had been about looking for new CG models, even of existing ships. So, if the Ambassador is new, then hopefully the Constellation or others would get a similar sprucing up. And label changes - yes, we notice every single one.
Say, is the cover image representative of the proportions of the book? If so, I suppose this means that the various ships that had been "creased" in previous calendars will be visible in full glory this time out...
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