Icons Klingon D7

[TheSt.LouisKid]

I've been looking for a larger scale D7 to buy me for Xmas. No luck yet but I don't frequent the model sites like I used to.

 

[CaptCBoard]

To set the record straight--- My kit was mastered from a fully assembled model I acquired, from a source that made it clear that what I was buying was a copy of a model that was cast from the original filming model. What was not known is how many generations away from original it was. Since the length of this model was 28 inches, I had to assume it was pretty close generation-wise. On the other hand, there was some distortion where things were supposed to be flat, which is always a sign of several generations of castings being used as masters.

I fixed what was wrong and created my kit (long story as to what was fixed, not necessary to go into that here...).

I worked for Greg Jein many years ago and we wound up giving his shop a thorough cleaning so we could make these really huge buildings for the remake of The Blob. I mean, you could actually see the concrete floor, that's how clean we got his shop! In the middle of doing this, I kept finding parts of the D7 all over the place. Greg explained that for a while, he had the mold of the original filming model in the shop and as he made castings of things for current projects, he'd make parts out of the D7 molds as well. Of course, they just got lost in the amazing amount of 'stuff' that littered his shop. I'm not kidding, you had to be there to see it to really understand. His shop was just like an episode of Hoarders! The only difference is that it was all really cool stuff!

I think the pile of parts I made had enough parts for 5 or 6 complete ships. I'm not even sure Greg knew how many parts he had. But, that has to be the source of the ship he did for DS9.

And because I know someone is going to ask-- my molds are shot and long gone, so I'm out of the D7 business and have been for quite a while.

Scott

 

[GKvfx]

Yeah, I worked for Greg in the early 90's and I was still finding that stuff. Amazing that anything could be built in there -

But it was fun.........

Gene

 

[Blackhawk101]

I remember a guy on Yourprops (perhaps a member here) having a D-7 from Icons...he has the #25 if I remember correctly. He should have the #2 but asked to Icons to have the #25 to match with his Icons Klingon Disruptor set !!! Also, don't forget that some plaques were kept away by CEOs so.....it's still difficult to say how many were exactly made :-(

I also remember an old evilbay auction where Latta was selling a broken (or unfinished !!) D-7, stating that "less than 60 were made by Icons". To create that piece, they used the silicon mold taken at the time of the Smithsonian's original Star Trek Klingon ship miniature restoration.
And here is a pic showing the Icons prototype on left (one ton paint job with painted details) and #1 on right, with two tones paint job and decals details. As you can see, the "regular" issue shows the Klingon pedestal logo.

Talk about thread resurrection- I am the guy with the #25s. Actually it was reversed- I got the D-7 first then when I ordered the weapons set I requested the #25 plate which Icons did indeed put on. My Icons box for the weapons shows a #2 in magic marker in one color and a #5 added next to it in another.

For anyone still interested- years ago I found someone who had the some of the records from Icons. I was told that roughly 50 or so D-7s went out the door but those records were incomplete. However it appeared that less then a dozen or so weapons sets were sent out and of those maybe 2 or 3 received the ICONS TOS disruptor before their doors closed. I am happy to say that I am one of those.

My D-7 does indeed have paint issues which I have yet to take care of.

 

[eimb1999]

I restored an Icons model for a customer..... for those of you interested here's a write-up I did....

Restoring an Icon

Note that Round 2 is also re-releasing the old AMT kit with improvements. Go to www.collectormodel.com and scrol down 'til you see the Klingon ship. There's an article there on what's being done to it.