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Every issue comes with a 5-inch "highly detailed" starship model! (I reserve judgement on the "highly detailed" claim until I see more...)
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They claim that CBS gave them access to extensive reference material for the ships. I can confirm, via my eyeballs, that the Enterprise-D is moulded from the "These Are The Voyages" CGI model built on a tight schedule by Gabriel Koerner. I'm not a fan of that model (it's disproportionate, the deflector is squinty, and it's missing a few details), but the mini-ship looks very nicely finished! The Romulan Warbird is also definitely derived from the CGI model built for the Dominion war.
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I have a suspicion, which some of you may be able to confirm or deny, that a lot of these ships are re-packaged Furuta, Konami, or Johnny Lightning (or others) toys. In particular, the Borg Cube, offered as a subscriber incentive (along with a dedication plaque, a binder for the magazines, and a model of the AGT Enterprise-D (for which they fairly obviously reuse DST's old demo model photos from 2009 - the bridge is glowing, fer cryin' out loud!) looks very familiar.
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