John Tate's scratchbuilt Enterprise is finally up for all to see. The pictures do not do this one justice. It's just huge at over 7 feet in length!
Comments are welcome as always, but any detail nits should be tempered with the fact that it was constructed in the early 80's...you all know how much accurate reference material was around then!
It has undergone a few restorations over the years, but I still think it's gorgeous!
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Truly amazing work: what the TOS E would have looked like with better cameras.
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I can't see anything that is off - what are some of the errors - if any!?! (I'm not an absolute expert on all the little Enterprise details).
This makes the Enterprise more REAL - and less fake than it does in the series (due to the way it's shot I guess)... That shot from under the saucer - is reminiscent of the shot of the E-refit passing over the camera in TMP and reused in TWOK.
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That's great Andrew! The photos and chosen angles are mine. I try to capture some neat *as seen on TV* type of angles in addition to enough to get all the details. At this show in November I took 73 photos around the show but only about 16 were of stuff other than the Enterprise...my focus was photo documentation of John's model.
There will be a build-up article coming soon to the MSFM site. John's provided me with some old construction photos and I'll use a bunch more of the photos I took at the show.
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Very nice. Hmm, there are three slots on his webpage under "Star Trek", only one of them filled with "Enterprise". What might the other two be, I wonder... An ultra-detailed D7 or the BoP, perhaps?
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Absolutely awesome. I wish I had that kind of time (and skill)...
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The way I set up the website, everyone has a table 3 cells wide. John's the only member who only has one model complete so it looks odd for that reason.
John has been talking of doing an in-scale K'Tinga class however....
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yes, what TSN said. 1/130 scale. Not too much to that scale, but the Monogram Maquis ship was done in 1/130!
Another of our members has a 1/130 Defiant Class already drawn out but needs some space and materials and I have has drawings for a 1/130 (almost 4ft) Oberth Class model for a while...again, no free time.
What I would like to do also is a 1/130 K-7 space station! That would be great!
John's contacted me about doing an in-scale Galileo 7 shuttle for his Enterprise.
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