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I don't know. I'm not convinced by the "no patch behind the upper right nacelle of #8 like there is behind the upper left" argument because of that single little blof of light that is behind the upper right nacelle, which sould easily be the rear part of itself but in shadow. But the more I look t the ship as a whole, the less I like the way the lower nacelle pylon joins to the nacelle - it looks like the left-hand one of a pair. And #3, well, that single visible lower pylon is in the wrong place for a singleton. So I guess I'll go with the prevailing wisdom as it stands. I don't think I can agree with any suggestion that all the other remaining ships (less the suspected Constitution) are the same because you just can't see any details.
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: And hey, let's not forget the starbase itself! Anyone noticed that the central core seems to be one big glass bubble?
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For me, it harkens back to Starfleet HQ as seen in Franz Joseph's Tech Manuel.
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quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: Sorry for double post, but the movie site has posted an image of the New Stardock showing some new designs, though they look kitbashed from the Kelvin and Enterprise.
Okay, they've done it: I really want to see the movie now. Before this I was very leery but now I know it will be a modeler's wet dream even if story, acting and contunity are ground up in favor of explosions and sex scenes.
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I totally agree with Jason! Who cares about the movie, now we have starships of obscure designs!
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I think #3 and #8 are the same type, with two upper nacelles and lower and smaller secondary hull. Which would make the ship look something like this:
(Quick 5-min jobbie, only intended to show how I "see" the general shape of it)
As you can see it fits the 2 views here, although the top nacelles are a little too far apart, but gives the general configuration of the ship.
quote:Originally posted by Andru: I'm wondering if any of those models were detailed enough to be individually labelled...
I'd say yes to that, earlier in this thread we saw those nice models will become individually labelled wreckage on the other side of the warp jump!
I can't imagine them not being so. It was one thing back when TNG was big and models were being done practically not to bother repainting for the sake of a background ship, but with CG models it's not that big of a job to go throw in a name and registry.
Besides, with what I've seen so far, I think the minds behind the film are realizing it's people like the folks at Flare that are going to endlessly pick the film apart that will be a big part of their revenue.
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Was kinda bored with the lack of any decent sci-fi on the TV at the moment, so thought I'd keep myself busy and model that ship till the movie comes out.
(Probably NOT the ships name, registry, or even close to how it actually looks, but whatever)
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Well, it's far from finished. No roll bar, secondary hull, basic bridge interior, windows, RCS thrusters, pop-up torpedo launchers (at least that's what I assume they are, as looking at the Kelvin it looks to have traditional phaser ports on it), and so on.
I'm not gonna clutter this thread with WIP stuff so gonna make a new thread over in the design part.
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