Looking for reference photos of the USS Jenolan/Executive Shuttle

tgreco

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #1

Figuring out what kits where used for the Executive shuttle, that was repurposed into the USS Jenolan / USS Nash
the obvious ones are the Reliant, The Runabout, the Romulan Warbird,
and the odd side walls look to be a large scale submarine.


Does anyone happen to have a picture of the side of it that isn't at a 3/4 angle.

 

ProfKSergeev

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #2

The Reliant and Runabout are impossible donors as neither existed in kit form at the time, and the Runabout hadn't even been designed.

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Here are the shots in my ref folder.

 

tgreco

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #3

Good catch, I hadn't even thought of that STVI was 91 DS9 didn't premiere til 93... now I know I'm getting old
so those are enterprise D nacelles on the underside of the exec shuttle?

by the time the Exec Shuttle was revamped into the Jenolan for season 6 of TNG, for the episode Relics which would have been season 6 (so 93)
What year did the reliant kit get released?

 

ProfKSergeev

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #4

They certainly resemble Ent-D nacelles, but they look too heavily modified to be from the AMT/Ertl kit. As for the Reliant, have a look at the next-to-last shot I posted and you'll see that those Reliant-esque cutouts are definitely not from the kit, which I don't believe was released until after TNG ended anyway.

 

tgreco

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #5

Do you think my notion that the side hulls coming from a sub or kit ship hold water?
It's a little over 11" long, and after looking at several RC submarine, it just looks like a kit part to me. Like the bow of a 1:72 WWII sub

something like this:

 

ProfKSergeev

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #6

"Hold water"--ha! You're just too bad, tgreco. Man, it would be nice if it were a sub, but the more I look at it the more I think the hull is vacformed. I believe this shuttle was built by Bill George (who is a member of this forum), and he used similar techniques to build the spacedock shuttle.

 

tgreco

Sr Member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #7

Now you have me wondering if they used casts of the nacelles from the 2 foot Ent D model, and cast from the little Reliant studio model, seeing as the Reliant kit didn't exist at that time.

I'm thinking the side wall is a kit part, because the hole with the square shape... seems like a kit artifact, not something you'd intentionally put in. And when you look at the back, there's that lip, that looks like a kit seem, and if you try to match the left and right sides, there's an area that looks like a ships deck would go there...

with the contour, now that I look at the Exec shuttle, it looks like where the prop shaft would come out, and the holes look like where the anchor would be

 

Last edited: Nov 26, 2014

DaddyfromNaboo

Master Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Nov 27, 2014

• #8

Hah! Just caught that episode on tv, great to see someone tackle that ship. And what about matching sphere doors? ;-)

 

tgreco

Sr Member

• Nov 28, 2014

• #9

I actually was thinking of doing it as a diorama crashed like this:

 

stevielewis

Sr Member

• Nov 29, 2014

• #10

I had read that the main hull of the ship was of the original Star Trek shuttle turned upside down. Give that a look and see if that's what you are looking for.

 

tgreco

Sr Member

• Dec 1, 2014

• #11

so diggin around, I found an article on Memory Alpha, where they do confirm that the nacelle parts on the underside were from the AMT Ertl kit
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Studio_models_(films)#SD-103

 

ProfKSergeev

Sr Member

• Dec 1, 2014

• #12

I'd seek out the Cinefex issue cited to see if that same bit of info is corroborated, because while those certainly do look like Enterprise-D nacelles, if you compare the kit parts to the photo, you will see several differences between them. This means either George and Goodson spent a fair amount of time heavily modifying the kit parts (improbable but not impossible) or they used something else, possibly scratchbuilt.

 

tgreco

Sr Member

• Dec 1, 2014

• #13

In the Memory Alpha Article they cite Cinefex #49 as the source for that info.

I wouldn't say heavily modified. It looks like they trimmed the ribs on the front of the nacelle, and hid the ribbing in the clear styrene of the kit part under some tube styrene bent to shape.