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And the gold E XL. I think if I was ever going to get one XL, it’d be the E. So far I’ve missed out on both drops (including in the latest one when it wasn’t released in time with the rest; I checked at zero hour and it wasn’t there, assumed it’d been left off again - not the first time - and by the time MR posted about it, it’d sold out again). I don’t know whether I would want a gold one. Assuming I even managed to nab one at all.
The smaller OG Titan is still available, incredibly - it seems people only want the larger/more vibrant LDS one. They’ve also (just?) released (more of?) two of the 32nd-cent ships, the Nog and the Liu Cixin.
Look, I like the smaller ones. So I’m feeling a bit unimpressed with the mid-size ones I have got - the Discoprise, the Vancouver and the… bugger, what was it? Oh yeah, the NX-01 refit. I may keep the latter; will probably keep the former; but will likely sell on the Vancouver eventually, there’s something about it I just don’t like.
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Yeah, that $USD 315 price was laughable even if I HAD been interested.
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Just tried to get shit in this drop, had it in my cart, went to pay...& it said sold out. Fucking bullshit. If it's in your cart it should be fucking held until paid.
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Well, got fucking sniped again. I had what I wanted, was checking out. GONE in under 60 seconds from going live. Fucking reprehensible.
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Pretty good luck with the last couple of drops -- got the SE Cerritos about a week ago, and in today's drop managed to get the Pasteur and Ahwahnee, meaning I believe I have all of the 24th Century Starfleet ships.
Also grabbed a 22nd Century Klingon BOP.
I think Master Replicas has one last Lower Decks model -- the Cerritos shuttle -- coming sometime towards the end of August or early September.
Also grabbed one of the very few 1:6 QMX Captain's Chairs, which will be a good place for my Exo-6 Captain Sisko to rest his feet after a long day slaughtering Jem'Hadar.
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I decided I quite fancied the Courage-class USS Jubayr, so got that. Ben Robinson has teased another likely 32nd-cent ship he hadn’t realised had gone into production in the US: could be the Dresselhaus-type (the flying letter J) but obviously the Holy Grail would be the Constitution… IV? -class USS Armstrong.
And I got the small gold 1701-null on a bit of a whim. There’s not much else I'm really interested in. Not the Cerritos (midsize or XL), not the Titan (OG or LDS variants in any size)… I toyed with the idea of getting the Voyager-J but decided I really don’t like models with the detached nacelles (otherwise I’d’ve gotten a Nog). I might still bite the bullet and get the non-gold Ent-E XL.
I would also quite like a Viper mk.2 but it’s too big for my tastes - 10 inches long!! I’m not interested in The Orville so those are out. The Doctor Who merch all seems naff to me. And none of the available Expanse ships appeal to me…
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I've been getting stuff for myself, but also stuff for later sale. Regular-size E-J is for me, & have 3 OG Connie refits partly by accident, a Sisko figure in box (got one to open for me), a Reliant concept, aType 7 shuttle, a large T'Plana-Hath which I might keep, a reg-size Voyager. XL Cerritos will arive by Friday; waiting on Oberth for me plus a reg-size Titan & a large Lower Decks one. Just got a Lantree for me & an E-B (plus 2 extra; meant to get only one extra for sale but couldn't change it after adding to cart), plus a Kumari & a Xindi-Aquatic cruiser, which I may or may not keep.
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There’s something about it. Can’t put my finger on what. It is SO different to just about anything Starfleet we’ve ever seen. At best, if you were being generous, you might suggest that it still shows what would once have been a secondary hull. But that’s it. I sort-of want to suggest that the Eisenberg-class could be considered an intermediate step between “classic” designs and the Courage-class, but I’m not wholly convinced of it…
Also, used my “40% off a second ship” code to just bite the bullet and get the Ent-D along with the Ent-B!
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The Courage design looks like Arabic. Like, the entire ship feels like someone looked at a word or phrase in Arabic or Farsi & said "yeah, that's perfect for a starship".
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Today, in the Greek bay below where I’m staying, there turned up a superyacht. But not just any - an original (refitted & restored) 1930s motor yacht. The second we’ve had this holiday in fact, whereas previously in all the years we’ve been coming here they’ve been the more-conventional modern designs. But I digress - the point is, during WW2 this MY was commissioned into the Royal Navy, and given an HMS designation before the name it bore at the time (it’s had at least a half-dozen owners in its 90 years of life, and four or five different names). Perhaps this is a similar situation - the surviving ships of this class (Courage, which doesn’t scream Arabic per se) were UFP civilian vessels conscripted into Starfleet service after the Burn, to make up the numbers. Perhaps their unconventional design doesn’t just reflect that, but also might imply some other non-dilithium-based propulsion method? Probably not though given we saw this design being blown up in said Burn…
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