I’m glad you are starting this Stephen. You piqued my interest on it in the postman thread.
The red maybe a nod to Chinese culture. The ship name may have roots to the Chinese manned flight program ‘Shenzhou’ (it means ‘Divine Craft’ in Chinese) and red is a traditional colour for power, prosperity and warding off evil.
Discovery took a while for me to get into. It did grow on me, once I got over the differences to the mainstream series. I just thought of it as an ‘alternate Universe’ type story based in the Trek way, rather than a series in the standard Trek timeline.
That’s possible. I do wonder if they would have gone with that now after events over the last couple of years. It’s certainly a different look to the usual. It’s a good looking ship, a lot of similarities with the NX-01. If I would change something, it would be the warp nacelles to the NX-01 style. They look a little too Post-TNG.
I did start it when Netflix first started showing it, but struggled. And then they lost it to Amazon and it’s now exclusively on Paramount. Neither of which I have. Paramount I would try out, but so far the service is not compatible with Xbox One. I have heard good things about Strange New Worlds. I do like the design of the Enterprise in that one. Looks so much better than the JJprise.
So how do you feel about Discovery being cancelled?
I never watched more than an episode or two of the new series that have come out since the Abrams reboot. I actually am not a fan of the ‘New’ Trek although they have managed to come up with a couple of ship designs that aren’t stupid like the Shenzhou. I hate the warp nacelles on the 2009 Enterprise.
Too bad we likely would never see any of the FASA rpg ship designs. They had quite a few interesting Klingon ships.
Also painted the inside of the impulse drive, bridge windows and deflector before I installed them in the hull before it goes together. Used a translucent orange for the engines, white for the windows and clear blue backed with white for the deflector. The box art shows this with a pale violet glow, but I couldn’t get any mix of the clears to look right. Mixing red and blue resulted in mixes either too blue or too red. Might not be screen accurate, but I know the blue works from previous projects.
It’s funny how you genuinely forget about certain ships etc from the old SciFi films …It is looking good though Stephen…be nice to get some colour on it …
I’m thinking of getting one of those Star wars legion kits later and doing it here to go with the Enterprise E…
Thanks John. These one off guest models are often easy to forget. I think it might’ve been reused once or twice in later episodes?
Legion has a lot of interesting stuff. From what I’ve seen from searches, you do have to do a lot of shopping around to get the best deals. Some seem to be a bit pricey.
It was a great print.
I reduced it 50% as I only have a small 3d printer
I had to sand down the 2 ends of the ship that you glue together as it was a bit warped, as I had not supported it enough, as it has some weight to it.
