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I'm just not afan of a "azrec" pattern on TOS ships- something more nique (and creative) should be used if anything.
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TSN: The Delta rocket was just a booster to get the technology testbed into space. The warp drive wasn't integrated into the booster's systems, as they discarded it once out of the atmosphere.
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Finally a decent sized pic of the NX "Refit" with some exposition to boot. As for Ensign Sue, I see it takes place in the newniverse, which has very little in the way of content. But then she must die, so that shouldn't take long.
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That centerfold is horrid. Possibly the worst Trek design (aside from the "NewPrise").
I like the Romulan Warbird from Probert but some images seem lazy- no SOTL would be complete without a rehashed image of a TOS shuttlecraft.
That Reliant model looks inaccurate- the rollbar phaser in particular seems out of scale large.
Personally, I like the Ringship and the NX refit.\
The November image offers the single worst, most lazy kitbash of parts possible- a simple re-arrangment of connie refit parts with no style or design. awful. Really truly bad in the worst way.
The Constelation shot is very nice but it's nothing they have not given us before -just in a new pose.
Blerg...I want to suppport the calander overall but I dont want to support rehashed stuff and retread images like that ol'"shuttle approaching Enterprise" gag...or the shot of the Refit docked in Spacedock- a mishmash of the TNG scene and the STII scene.
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It always seems like there's only a handful of good stuff in these calenders, and the rest is just stuff lifted from various 3d modeling websites.
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The Constellation does look like a lift from the episode (TDDM). the only difference is that its burning still.
The upside down Kitbash Connie obviously was inspired by the Kelvin (and other than the fact it sports dual Impulse Engines, thus making it stupid looking) it actually looks... ok looking.
though the fact that the majority of those ships are firing their topside Starboard-facing phaser banks forward. That's one thing i learned to love about SFC3, those firing arcs...
does the anti-FJ clause on ship designs still apply?
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The "anti-FJ clause" never really applied- I dont know of a single design ever rejected on that basis and obviously later designs tossed it out the window, starting with the Nebula and Springfield.
That "firing from the starboard phaser banks" bit looks dumb- why do that as an artistic choice?
Is that KBOP being assimilated? Looks like it.
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^I think it's just sat inside a Klingon spacedock. Maybe an asteroid base or something.
I never buy these things, but I'm always impressed by at least some of the work on display. The gap in quality here though is huge! All the way from (naturally) pro work from the likes of Drexler and Probert to some very amateurish and unimaginative efforts. Mostly unimaginative though, even the worst images are - from a technical standpoint - competent enough but there's very little if any artistry there.
Love the NX-refit and the re-jigged TMP ringship (not that I was surprised what with my following Doug's blog for the last few years. )
Nice to see all our theorising from back in the day about the Surak-Class/S.S. Enterprise connection has turned out to be right after all.
Speaking of Drexler, looks like we'll soon get to see these things in motion. Fun!
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Holy carrier flight deck Batman! Since when did a starship's shuttlebay look like the size of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier?
Real life jets need room on a flight deck to take off and stop. But a shuttle doesn't need the same catapult and trapping system
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