pootboy
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it sure would be something to behold in real life. it would be frickin massive.
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pootboy
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I'm just gonna ask you this, Asty, rather than sprain my googly fingers--- any idea where the giant studio model of the excelsior class currently sits? I guess its last iteration was Enterprise-B? which tech billionaire dorkus got his hands on that puppy.
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pootboy
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Yeah but at that bargain basement price you gotta expect a few scuffs'n'dings
pootboy
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Has anyone given this a once-over? Have you heard of this outfit-- Factory Entertainment Masterworks-- before??
FE Masterworks
are these just professionally built up Polar Lights/Bandai kits?
FE Masterworks
are these just professionally built up Polar Lights/Bandai kits?
Just going off memory here, but I believe the Excelsior doesn't exist in its original form anymore. I do know that the original model was reused in several TNG episodes (U.S.S. Fearless is the first TNG appearance), but I'm not sure if it's the same model in Star Trek 6.
Also not sure if the Enterprise B is a new model or if the Excelsior was modded up for that.
Either way, I feel that model got lots of action, so I'm not sure it's really intact.
Original huge Excelsior (5ft I think) was used in S.T.3 and then N.G.
Then modded slightly for Star Trek VI
Then "temporarily" modded for Star Trek Generations to avoid damaging original model when Kirk goes boom. The glue was too strong and the extra parts could not be removed. Re-used in DS9. I think it sold at Christies as the USS Lakota???
Voyager episode with Sulu needed new Excelsior shots so smaller model built with light up nacelles.
Then modded slightly for Star Trek VI
Then "temporarily" modded for Star Trek Generations to avoid damaging original model when Kirk goes boom. The glue was too strong and the extra parts could not be removed. Re-used in DS9. I think it sold at Christies as the USS Lakota???
Voyager episode with Sulu needed new Excelsior shots so smaller model built with light up nacelles.
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Scroll down a bit and there are a ton of pics of the original Excelsior re-dressed as the Lakota at the auction.
www.startrekpropauthority.com
Detailed Photostudy of the U.S.S. Enterprise B 7 foot filming model
This model might rank as one of the most highly utilized Star Trek motion picture and television series starship filming models; appearing a...
pootboy
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Does it say somewhere WTF it sold for? that site is not for the nearsighted. or farshighted.Scroll down a bit and there are a ton of pics of the original Excelsior re-dressed as the Lakota at the auction.
Detailed Photostudy of the U.S.S. Enterprise B 7 foot filming model
This model might rank as one of the most highly utilized Star Trek motion picture and television series starship filming models; appearing a...
edit: ah, nm, found it
this model was built by Industrial Light and Magic and sold as Lot 998 in the Christies 40th Anniversary Star Trek auction for $132,000.
'Retail" Small. 11",16", etc.
Early 90s A garage kit called the Lunar Model. 4' long. Great at the time. Needed lots of work and support.
Current:
Marshall Models. 5' 1/350 Excelsior. Smaller one as well, along with B and E.
Getting me the E and the big Excelsior as soon as I can.
STORE | marshall-models
www.marshallcustommodels.com
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One of our members has been working on fixing the Lunar 4' garage kit Excelsior for some time, but he is not going to offer a kit. Believe me I have tried to convince him.
www.therpf.com
Correcting the Lunar Models 41" Excelsior
I have started a big project regarding correcting everything that is wrong with the Lunar Models Excelsior. It will all be done by hand because I don't have the computer skills, nor the equipment to 3D map parts, and print/grow them. I am using scaled up images of the actual NX version of the...
www.therpf.com
pootboy
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dear Gorn, how much is a 5' Excelsior going to run you?'Retail" Small. 11",16", etc.
Early 90s A garage kit called the Lunar Model. 4' long. Great at the time. Needed lots of work and support.
Current:
Marshall Models. 5' 1/350 Excelsior. Smaller one as well, along with B and E.
Getting me the E and the big Excelsior as soon as I can.
STORE | marshall-models
The big 5' Excelsior kit is $1,200. You can St3 or ST6
The E is $800 plus he has a $150 lighting kit and $150 for a masking kit.
pootboy
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The amount of man hours and skill and talent and dedication and research and painting and engineering that must go into building a 5-ft model is just not something I can wrap my little goofy head around. I blame the Ferengi.
(I joined this board because it had the best conversation going on the internet regarding the Tomy TOS Enterprise, not because I have even a whisper of skill in the modeling or prop making department. Whatever part of the human brain is responsible for actually building things, I ain't got. From where I sit it all looks like magic.)
(I joined this board because it had the best conversation going on the internet regarding the Tomy TOS Enterprise, not because I have even a whisper of skill in the modeling or prop making department. Whatever part of the human brain is responsible for actually building things, I ain't got. From where I sit it all looks like magic.)
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phasersonthrill
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NX-2000 did not have glowing warp nacelles, if that’s the era of excelsior that they’re trying to replicate. The Voyager Flashback episode NCC-2000 Greg Jein built model had them.
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