Shik
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This came up as a suggested thing on Facebook of all places. It's a bronze-painted model of a Miranda with extra nacelles on the upper rollbar. Comes with supposed authenticating documents saying it was a background display piece in TNG. I'll be damned if I can think of where it might've been used, though.
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Those certificates look utterly rubbish. The text has obviously been put in with an editor, it’s plainly not a scanned document. And the image on of the model on one of the certificates is identical - angles, shadows - to the sole picture of the model itself.
The only interesting thing about it are those two protuberances from the superstructure either side of the bridge, which I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere before and might help identify the source of the (probably post-TNG) model used to mock up this alleged “filming model.”
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Shik
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Wait, we got an answer from the link Spike tossed down!
Created by production for set decoration but never used
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This model has actually been around for some time. I have many photos of it. Didn’t know someone was trying to pawn it off on eBay though.
Shik: It couldn’t have been used in TNG, because the Reliant AMT model kit wasn’t produced until after TNG ended. It was probably meant for set decoration in DS9.
Lee: What protuberances are you talking about?
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I think I said TNG because that's what the seller posted.
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