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The TMP Enterprise model

Posted: 2004-04-26 05:28am
by Uraniun235
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The story of how the refit-Enterprise was originally painted. Also a tidbit on the construction of the model itself:
The Enterprise was eight feet long, with a skin made up of five different types of plastic molded and formed around a skeleton chassis which was made by a custom-aircraft fabrication facility using aircraft-grade aluminum struts which were heli-arc welded together. She had cost well over a quarter of a million to date.

Posted: 2004-04-26 11:49pm
by Sarevok
Interesting article. I noticed that in the images of the Enterprise model the deflector dish is not glowing blue. Perhaps the deflector dish special effect was done seperattely.

Posted: 2004-04-26 11:52pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
First, it's not shown glowing because the dish isn't installed yet in those photos.

Second, all illumination on the TMP Enterprise model were practicle effects: such as LEDs and fiberoptics.