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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I think one thing differentiates this model from most of the other Wolf 359 ones: apparently, Greg Jein had access to the studio molds of the E-C and the E-D, while Ed Miarecki built his ships out of scale model kit parts. The Princeton has an obvious Ambassador secondary hull, even though AFAIK none were available in kit form back when "BoBW" was filmed. Also, the hull and the other components seem bigger than the usual 1:1400 scale models would allow. I don't see any obvious shortening in the nacelles. One should note that the nacelles of the New Orleans are [i]lenghtened[/i], instead of all the others being shortened. Also, I'm not convinced Masaki Taniko's renderings actually show any more detail than the photograph reveals. Instead, I think he drew "damage" to the front parts of the ventral nacelle and the secondary hull to indicate that he could not [i]see[/i] these parts in the photo, and thus couldn't show them in the drawings without misleading people about the correct shapes of these parts of the ship. (The underside of the saucer in turn is not shown "damaged" in the front view, because that would ruin the picture since one couldn't see the true extent of the real damage - so here Taniko goes by the existing FF picture...) All right, what is the size of the ship? We can't very well do a complete deck count from this angle, and the only parts that could be interpreted as common with known ships are the warp engines. But are they common with the Galaxy class, or the (unlenghtened) New Orleans class? Or did Greg Jein have a specific nacelle size in mind that falls between these two, and is common to the Princeton and his other model, the Firebrand (which would look rather out-of-scale if her single engine was a full Galaxy one)? Timo Saloniemi [This message has been edited by Timo (edited July 03, 2000).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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