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[Starfleet Doc]

Same here on the shipping notice. It looks a little more detailed as a model so itll be nice to compare them side by side. Im curious too when the JJPrise A will be released. I honestly care more for the refit than the A.

[Alteran195]

It just seemed stupid for them to shrink the neck and the pylons just to make them look weak in the movie. They also ended up making the nacelles even closer together, which I don't think looks as good as the original design.

 

I don't have much issue with them shrinking the nacelles, or even sweeping the pylons back, but the other changes just don't make much sense to me.

 

Part of why I want the A so bad is because its up in the air as to whether we will ever actually properly see her. We've seen concept art, but that art doesn't match what she looked like on screen.

[Starfleet Doc]

I didnt like the neck but liked the swept back pylons. Think if theyd kept them the original distance or slightly further apart, it would have looked even better.

[Alteran195]

This video has a version of the Kelvin Enterprise that is perfect to me.

https://youtu.be/aq7OrAoC6YE

Straightened out, swept back pylons look fantastic, and is what they should have done in Beyond.

[Alteran195]

Got the Beyond Enterprise today.

https://imgur.com/a/C3oho

Definitely more details in most places, but the aft of the secondary hull is blank.

I love the grid lines on the bussard collectors, and the extra details on the nacelles.

Seeing her in person has changed my mind a bit on the Refit, but they really shouldnt have shrunk the nacelles. They look too small now.

I also didnt get the magazine because its preordered or backordered.

[Starfleet Doc]

Probably backordered. I got mine today and it also didnt have the magazine. The nacellese are VERY small in comparison to the rest of the ship. They definitely looked longer on screen (thats what she said).

Mine apparently was an extremely special edition, as the saucer and neck werent glued so shes capable of saucer seperation....

[Whirlygig]

I have to say, those nacelles do look ridiculously small to me...I don't remember the ship looking that stand-out oddball in any movie shots so now I feel skeptical of its accuracy...might have to break out the movie soon and refresh my memory??

At any rate, don't display her next to the Discovery or there might be some nacelle envy developing.

[Alteran195]

Eaglemoss has always been pretty damn accurate in the past, and Id assume they were given the CGI model of the ship like they have for a lot of their other ships.

Pictures of it from the movie definitely make them seem pretty small.

[DefiantOne]

The small nacelles of the Beyond Enterprise do have one advantage though, they look much better on other ship variants like the Miranda than the big nacelles. There was even a Miranda looking ship towed in the background of the Enterprise-A construction scene at the end of Beyond.

[Jay K]

Some more pictures of the prototype, confirming that it does have the pulse phasers on the nacelles:

 

 

 

Two things that bother me (other than the overall 'chubbiness' that these XL models tend to suffer from):

One, the way the forward section is connected to the hull being the same as on the regular version. Not a good look at this size, and I'm imaging a lot of them will be off-centre due to that.

 

Two, the pennants on the side of the nacelles - how was it not fixed for this larger version? See comparison below:

 

 

I'm really torn here between wanting a large, die-cast version of my favourite ship, or saving my money knowing that the Polar Lights kit is out soon.

[Alteran195]

The reason they didn’t fix the pennants is because these jumbos are lazy, blown up versions of the small ships.

The fact they added the pulse phasers is pretty surprising, I think it’s the first time they’ve made any improvements to a jumbo ship. Why they wouldn’t go all out and fix the paint job I’ll never know, or understand.

Since I don’t trust myself to build a good model of her myself, this will probably be the first jumbo I buy.

[hobsgrg]

The reason they didn’t fix the pennants is because these jumbos are lazy, blown up versions of the small ships.

The fact they added the pulse phasers is pretty surprising, I think it’s the first time they’ve made any improvements to a jumbo ship. Why they wouldn’t go all out and fix the paint job I’ll never know, or understand.

Since I don’t trust myself to build a good model of her myself, this will probably be the first jumbo I buy.

 

I'd disagree with you in terms of the jumbo Voyager, as far as I'm concerned that is a significant upgrade as that has a lot more fine detail not in/not possible on the regular sized version. The others I agree with you though, they are bigger but barely any better.

[Alteran195]

Voyager does look good, and if it didn’t suffer from horrible window misalignment, it’d be a ship I would probably buy.

It just is confusing to me that they’d go through that much effort refining the paint apps for one ship, and do nothing at all with the majority of the others.

Why can’t they commit to improving the paint details and sculpt issues like they did with Voyager, and now adding the pulse phasers on the Defiant, on all of their jumbos?

[DefiantOne]

Given that the EM Defiant is the season 7 cg-model, I think it really looks good as the XL version. Studio model version would be the big prize, but I'm just glad they didn't use the season 6 cg.

[hobsgrg]

I can't believe how inaccurate the Reliant XL is, doesn't even resemble the right class of ship... 

 

 

[Alteran195]

Haha.

The Defiant looks good enough for me, will probably buy it. Looking forward to those light blue windows being misaligned. Also not quite sure why theyre light blue instead of black like the windows on every other ship.

Really hoping the stand is better than the standard version. Both of the ones I have just fall right off.

[Alteran195]

After a year of being out of stock, I finally got the J.

 

The line feels complete. Only ship I'm not sure if I need or want is the ring ship.

[Morgan]

Really liking the Freedom and Challenger class, such oddballs but they're great in person. Now I wish they'd made regular appearances in TNG.

 

Never thought 20 years ago that I'd see all of these BoBW ships.

[AndyW]

Got my Yeager, its a monster that makes no sense but as with the BoBW ships, I never dreamt we'd have an officially licenced official model.

 

To be fair, the design is ghastly, but the new CG models are very impressive.

 

Anyone else seen the comments on Facebook about 6 new side cannon specials, the Altair and Bonaventure being the two images I saw. Any word on the rest? I wonder if the Sternbach Voyager concept is in there (they've said they will do it), I suspect it will be. But what else?

 

PS, that XL Defiant is an absolute must buy for me. I will not miss that at all. Anyone spots the pre-order going up (UK), then shout!

[Alteran195]

New bonus ships including the Enterprise F from STO:
https://www.herocoll...rships-revealed

Couldnt be more excited for the F, now I wont have to get one through STOs 3D printing service.