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Well, I know where to get the three piece set for about $15 and the Ent-d for about $25. I guess paint and all, but I don't count that in my model costs because the paint usually lasts longer than one model. And I have a ton of tools and stuff. But yeah, I guess I can see how it may cost that much total.
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Shik
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Right you are, Inspector. Believe it or not, I actually do get requests to build things for people a lot. Unfortunately, they rarely come to fruition because:
A) I quote them a price & they think it's too high, not realizing that I'm SIGNIFICANTLY downsizing actual price to MAKE it affordable (a 1/1400 Galaxy should by all rights cost $300 due to sheer labor alone);
B) I quote them a price & they evaporate;
C) They ask for things that aren't possible. Someone once asked for an Enterprise-D in the same scale as the ERTL Enterprise-A kit--1/537. OUCH.
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Well... We know the old Freedom design was pretty much right. The old Rigel design seems to have actually been the Niagara. So, what in the world was this one a corruption of?
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Shik, I hear you about building models for other people. I've only done it once or twice and I'll never do it again. But I think that design came from a comic book that had the USS Challenger in it. It was like that, but was more like a Constelleation with the bottom nacelles removed and the Constitution secondary hull put there.
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Altair, those pictures look pretty good, but those arn't the ones I was refering to. I was talking about some pictures of a TNG style Challenger.
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Shik
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Yeah, I had the images Bernd has in mind when I did mine. Only differences are that I made the secondary hull "inline" & accounted for the actual nacelle-to-hull sizing ratio. Make the upper pylon look like the sail of a Typhoon-class SovSBN (which I've yet to figure how to arrange) & you're all set.
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Yeah, they're from Bernd's site. Quite a few of us already know about them as the Wolf 359 ships discussion has been going on for quite a while on another thread.
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I just got confirmation from Okuda that the model did indeed use the 1/1400 nacelles with the 1/2500 saucer/engineering hull. He stated that he and Rick Sternbach wanted a fast looking ship, but that when they saw the actual finished model, it wasn't quite the way they invisioned it would be.
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