![]() ![]() It’s clear so it tries to obscure the view of the ship as little as possible. The device that holds the ship up grabs the saucer beside each of the saucer impulse engines and also has notches for the Stardrive Section to rest on. ![]() The base is heavy and made of metal with a felt bottom. And before moving on to the next ship, this is also as good a place as any to talk about the stand, which is very high quality and very well designed. The deflector dish is comprised of more of that lovely red and blue translucent plastic, and the ventral side of the ship shares all the great detail as the dorsal section, complete with individually painted windows, and registry printed on the underside of the saucer. Want me to complain about something? The Shuttlebay Doors could have been more detailed. You also get the Deltas and racing stripes on tops of each warp nacelle the name printed on the horizontal face of the struts, and the name and registry printed in front of the Primary Shuttlebay Door. And there’s a sharp red racing stripe bisecting the ship from the saucer all the way down to the aft torpedo launcher. The same red translucent plastic used for the fronts of the warp nacelles is used for the three impulse engines. The model is part metal, but mostly plastic and while it has a nice heft to it, those warp nacelles feel fragile! I’d also like to acknowledge that they did a nice job hiding the seams on this ship in plain sight by putting them in appropriate spots. If you look closely you can even see that they applied some of the subtle panel shading to the nacelles themselves. You also get some purdy red and blue translucent plastic used in the warp nacelles and super tiny registry printed on the struts. The tiny windows continue on to the Stardrive Section. They really nailed the profile of the ship as well. Granted, the Enterprise-D’s saucer is a pretty wide canvas to work on, but it’s still damn impressive. And we’ll see in a little bit that prejudice wasn’t entirely unfounded, but when it comes to this Enterprise, boy was I wrong! Just look at that saucer! Check out all the tiny windows individually painted either lit or dark! And escape pods! The crisp registry and sharp paint on the phaser ring! You even get some oh so subtle aztec-patterns. For the longest time, I didn’t collect this line because I just didn’t think the scale was capable of retaining the kind of details and quality of sculpt I was looking for. For now let me just say that I’m blown away by the amount of detail Eaglemoss packed into this little ship. I’m going to save my long-winded opinions on the 1701-D, it’s design, and what the ship means to me for when I spotlight the XL version in the near future. I like the ones that focus on the ship, but clearly not all ships have enough backstory and details to fill a magazine so some just talk about the aliens or the stories they were featured in. The magazines are kind of hit or miss with me. The Enterprise and Warbird come with booklets inside the boxes, while the others come with regular size magazines, usually in a bag with the box. I dig the window boxes more, but I have to respect the others that just let the models do all the talking. The other three ships come in generic boxes with no tops, just the clear cover for the plastic tray. The Enterprise and Warbird came in window boxes that are specific to the ship inside and include some nice artwork and a Collect Them All layout for the back panels. As you can see these come in two styles of packaging. I’m also calling this Part 1 because, while I don’t know when Part 2 will come along, or what will be in it, I do know there will be plenty more TNG ships to look at later on down the road.Īnd here are they are! The Federation Flagship, The Romulan Warbird, The Klingon Vor’Cha Class Battlecruiser, The Ferengi Marauder, and the Cardassian Galor Class Cruiser. To get started, I selected five ships that I feel are the most iconic ships of The Next Generation, and also a pretty good survey of the different space powers. ![]() And because these are smaller (roughly five inches long) and a little less detailed, I figured I’d cram as many as I could into one review. And before coming back to open some more of the larger ships, I thought I’d detour into some ships from the regular-sized fleet. A little while ago I embarked on reviewing Eaglemoss’ Starship Collection with a look at the XL Enterprise-A. ![]()
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