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U.S.S. Enterprise studio model visit
Okay, so thanks for all the birthday greetings earlier this month. I wasn't able t reply quickly became a little lass fun-napped me to DC for a get-a-way.
While there I dropped by the Smithsonian & took a gander at the recently restored Star Trek studio model. I thought about you folks and thought I'd take some detail pics that might help model builders and designers; close ups that might provide otherwise missed features that real accuracy freaks, like me , might appreciate. Apologies for the photo detail but I wasn't aware of the trip in advance and had only a little cheap digital. I'll post some general overall pics first and over the next few days add details and close ups as interest demands. Hope these will be valuable...
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Some window detail and markings...
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A few interesting images...
the intercooler detail was considerable for a 1960s studio model... Close ups of the aft nacelles show that there is ribbing before the stripping along the top of the secondary hull hangar window-decal detail
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Seeing this in person, in the Restoration room at the Smithsonian,
just out of its crate, not in a glass case, and before it was restored was a life changing experience for a lifelong Trek fan like myself. I can still smell it! Thanks to Anne McCombs for making that experience happen. I just wish I had been allowed to take photos at the time. I haven't seen it since, so it will be nice to go visit it again and see the entire display.
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Glad these might help. I thought some close ups of the model, from a modeler's eyes, might help in design and build efforts.
Here's a few more... (I am sorting out a lot) The lit interconnecting dorsal Interior pylon detail The upper saucer, supposedly unrestored and w original paint... Navigational beacon [note a smaller, unlighted edge beacon] lit up -more to come...
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Note on the last pics:
There's a textured aspect to the flush vents in pic #2. The red bulbs at the edge of the bridge module in pic 3 and in 4 & 5. Pic 3 also shows the illumination of the circle at the bow (& damaged paint near it).
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First two pics show the port nav light on the saucer [red] and the 2nd illustrates the unlit secondary bacon.
Upper saucer sensor rectangle... pic 4 of lit lower saucer & deflector dish [note the protrusion from the main sensor dome, the detail along the fore dish, & the pronounces ridge along the lower saucer sensor]. pic 5: the detail of the hangar doors, control tower, aft beacon, etc.
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More details...
First two pics show the port nav light on the saucer [red] and the 2nd illustrates the unlit secondary bacon.
Upper saucer sensor rectangle... pic 4 of lit lower saucer & deflector dish [note the protrusion from the main sensor dome, the detail along the fore dish, & the pronounces ridge along the lower saucer sensor]. pic 5: the detail of the hangar doors, control tower, aft beacon, etc.
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Sorry...the web is fighting me tonight. Here's pic #2 reposted from the above effort
Sorry...the web is fighting me tonight.
Here's pic #2 reposted from the above effort...
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