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Shik
Member # 343
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Yay for the garage industry.
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Siegfried
Member # 29
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That's cool. But what the heck is up with those registries it provides? NCX-165? Huh?
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CaptainMike
Member # 709
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*imagining the reaction if the producers actually named one of the NX-class vessels Akira* wow that would be something... [ February 06, 2002, 11:24: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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I'm thinking the "C" and the "1" are typos. At least the "C". It'd just be NX-65, though one wonders why they would go up that high...
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Wes
Member # 212
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wow... i havent done a model in a long time... mabye its a good place to start?
Also.. anyone know where I can pick up an Akira-Class model?
-Wes
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Dat
Member # 302
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Minor $poiler$ present, you have been forwarned
Large assumption on their part if they think the Shenandoah from a recent episode is an NX class...unless that's what TPTB also think.
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Shik
Member # 343
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Federation Models, Wes. There's 2 sizes outthere, the 1/1400 by Starcrafts which is fucking spectacular & the 1/2500 by Spaceboy. I think FM only carries the Starcrafts one, though. You can check Starship Modeler for the other.
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Bernd
Member # 6
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$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
quote: Large assumption on their part if they think the Shenandoah from a recent episode is an NX class...unless that's what TPTB also think
Mayweather said that "three more NX-class ships are on the drawing boards". I wouldn't expect any of them to get a captain so early.
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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Yah...I didn't think the Shenandoah was an NX... I assumed it was an older class of ship. Man, some of those models by Warp Models are killer!!
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Shik
Member # 343
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Warp kits suck ass. Shitty brittle resin that shatters if you blink at it wrong.
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EdipisReks
Member # 510
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i broke my warp nebula when i dropped it 6 inches onto my bed. . damn GRP.
--jacob
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Timo
Member # 245
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Anybody know where "Aniara" comes from? I know it's a sci-fi poem by Harry Martinson, but did he have a source for the name? Old Greek plays, or something?
Agreed that whatever the Shenandoah is, it's NOT a NX-class starship.
Timo Saloniemi
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targetemployee
Member # 217
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Based on on-line research,
1953 Poetry by the sci-fi writer Harry Martinson.
1958 A opera of that name, based on the previously mentioned play, is conducted in England.
1978 A ship of that name, the M/S Aniara , is launched. She is a car carrier.
Sources: The Poem
[URL=http://www.hnh.com/New Designs/Intro.files/bintro.files/operas/Aniara.htm]The Opera[/URL] [ February 07, 2002, 05:01: Message edited by: targetemployee ]
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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Ok...well, the models look cool in the pics they have up anyway Too bad they aren't better quality.
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Proteus
Member # 212
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so theres no ertl plastic akiras out there?
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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No...I think ERTLs last individual Trek Model was the Defiant. They put out a couple of sets after that that, but I'm pretty sure the Deffie was the last indiviudal. Monogram did the Voyager models.
*drools at the thought of ERTL kits of all the FC ships and the Raven...*
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Vogon Poet
Member # 393
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*sigh* You guys have no idea how lucky you are. I would have LOVED to be able to do a Star Trek model kit 20 years ago. . .
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Woodside Kid
Member # 699
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I'd much prefer if they picked another company to do Trek models; I never saw a starship kit from ERTL that didn't have serious design errors in it. Why do you think there are so many people out there making parts to correct the flaws?
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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True. All I really ever cared about was that they were close enough to use for some descent photo reference. I named all mine differently than the ship they were supposed to be anyway, so I attribute any errors in the models to variations among ships of that class
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Joe Brown
Member # 793
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quote: Originally posted by Aban Rune: I'm thinking the "C" and the "1" are typos. At least the "C". It'd just be NX-65, though one wonders why they would go up that high...
Hi, all!
I wrote that review, and checked it after it was posted on-line. Sorry, no typos! The registries and ship names are what was on the decal sheet that came with that example model. Why the odd numbers, and the mis-spellings? Ask Tom Sasser, the owner of Thomas Models, since he put all that together!
I'd apoligize about the photo quality, except that I'm a lousy photographer. I get it in focus, and hope my flash doesn't wash out the details. And, I was a bit rushed to get that shot & up on-line.
Is this a good resin kit? Dang straight! But, if you've never built a resin kit before, it will present some challenges -- that's merely a cautionary warning. The kit is made from a 'standard' resin, not the horrible GRP that Warp of England uses.
I have finished the model, and there is a complete construction write-up already sent off to Starship Modeler; it's waiting in the "To be posted soon" pile of articles that John Lester has over there.
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