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New interview with Chris Huisman

New interview with Chris Huisman from TOMY

It's an interesting question, did Jefferies have boom separation in mind for the Klingon Battle Cruiser. We have no information on that, not even a labeled schematic of the ship drawn by Jefferies. Mike McMaster put engines in the base of the boom, and FASA copied that over when they re-drew the...

And Captain Foley over on Trekyards has a breakdown analysis of the video

I had not seen this video of behind the scenes shooting the TOMY Refit at the studio in Arkansas earlier this year.

My preference would have been to print the lines but I was told it was not feasible. The early prototypes were 3d printed out of plastic because that was the first step in the process, before cutting steel molds for die casting. This is how manufacturing works, it wasn't "bait and switch" as you...

Is that a Wand P1 hand phaser in a Master Replicas P2 body? With some new extra crispy on top of the wand sight plate?

I couldn't figure out how to post a link to just the video. If you're on facebook and a member of the TOMY+ Insider's Group you can see the new video. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BAqAwzHgL/

I'll just throw out that K-7 is probably a long shot

The cat is out of the bag! :cool:

That won't be necessary but I do hope you enjoy the model when it is finally shipped! lol

Thanks. My opinion is that it looks great in person! There are of course issues of brightness and color to be fixed but overall I am very pleased with how it is coming out.

Karl Tate here, I'm a fan consultant to TOMY on the project. The wide engraved gridlines are a function of the diecast metal process. They are as thin as the factory could make them. To get thinner the whole model would have had to have been made of plastic. This is a licensed "die cast" model...

Updated with AI enlarged and denoised photos in the original post. Karl

Still avalable