wasili
Sr Member
Hello Folks,
While i'm finishing up the last bits of my tintin moonrocket, i have been working on a nice studio-scale project in my spare time......
The Enterprise - C.
As some of you might know, blueprints of the C were published in a Trek calendar in 2002. These were drawn by Gary Kerr, who has been researching Trek ships for a long time.
I contacted Gary a while ago, and asked his permission to use his blueprints for making a studio scale replica of the C. He kindly agreed, and provided me with a lot of new insights into the original filming miniature, accompanied by new updated blueprints based on tracings of the original filming miniature and spare parts made for production.
The blueprints that were printed in the calendar were but a work-in-progress, but the publisher simply published them. There are a lot of differences from the calendar-blueprints, nearly no part of the calendar is correct, even though they're impressive as is.
The C is an interesting model in that it was build very quick (like most TV miniatures), but compared to other Trek starships, the primary and secondary hull were vacvormed plastic. Not layup fibreglass. Though not visible on screen, the original is very very wonky. The other sad thing is that the model was changed drastically to appear as different starships. All sharp shots of the model (including the Christies auction ones) are therefore not of the C.
I'll be updating the thread as i go along. I'm quite excited as this is my first starship model. I've been upgrading my cnc to machine 3d objects, so the basic shapes will be a product from this process.
One other thing. The idea is to offer a limited number of copies of the C. I haven't decided yet if those will be as build ups, or kits only.
Oh, and it's 41,5" (105cm) long, more than 26" (66cm wide)
Let's begin.....
Cheers,
Wasili
the calendar blueprint:
While i'm finishing up the last bits of my tintin moonrocket, i have been working on a nice studio-scale project in my spare time......
The Enterprise - C.
As some of you might know, blueprints of the C were published in a Trek calendar in 2002. These were drawn by Gary Kerr, who has been researching Trek ships for a long time.
I contacted Gary a while ago, and asked his permission to use his blueprints for making a studio scale replica of the C. He kindly agreed, and provided me with a lot of new insights into the original filming miniature, accompanied by new updated blueprints based on tracings of the original filming miniature and spare parts made for production.
The blueprints that were printed in the calendar were but a work-in-progress, but the publisher simply published them. There are a lot of differences from the calendar-blueprints, nearly no part of the calendar is correct, even though they're impressive as is.
The C is an interesting model in that it was build very quick (like most TV miniatures), but compared to other Trek starships, the primary and secondary hull were vacvormed plastic. Not layup fibreglass. Though not visible on screen, the original is very very wonky. The other sad thing is that the model was changed drastically to appear as different starships. All sharp shots of the model (including the Christies auction ones) are therefore not of the C.
I'll be updating the thread as i go along. I'm quite excited as this is my first starship model. I've been upgrading my cnc to machine 3d objects, so the basic shapes will be a product from this process.
One other thing. The idea is to offer a limited number of copies of the C. I haven't decided yet if those will be as build ups, or kits only.
Oh, and it's 41,5" (105cm) long, more than 26" (66cm wide)
Let's begin.....
Cheers,
Wasili
the calendar blueprint:
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