Missing 32" Enterprise finally found...

Cool. That looks kinda like a farther-future Starfleet drydock.

 

EDIT: It's an illustrious crew in that pic, to be sure. But seeing Doug, Denise, and Mike in there just brought a tear to my eye.

Oh joy!

Ha!

Understatement of 2024!

Hee hee hee! And awesome!

Well. Are THESE backwards? Or are the 11 footers backwards?

Oh dear Bird! YOU GO!

 

I took my kid to the orthodontist last week and they used a small lidar scanner that had crazy good resolution, so taking dental impressions is now a thing of the past.

 

So glad to see all the updates and news blurbs have a happy end to this long story. She's back where she belongs after all this time. Glad to hear she's going to get a restoration and then be displayed to the public. I've seen the 11 footer may times, would love to see this one too.

 

I want to see the 11' one day. It's cool seeing it on video but I want to see it in person before my death....

 

This is so great. Made my day....

 

The 1701 photos posted here--




--are courtesy of Greg Holmes, who photographed the Enterprise in 1981, when it was still in the slightly restored shape it had been as part of the Smithsonian's "Life in the Universe" exhibit in the 70s (I visited the exhibit at the time to see the miniature up close). At that stage, it was undoubtedly closer to its production shape than Ed Miarecki's wrongheaded hack-work, which bore no resemblance to TOS filmed footage, behind the scenes bluescreen work or publicity photos.

 

It was closer just because it hadn't been touched. Any place where it was touched? The nacelle domes and the primary sensor dish were far more wildly wrong than Miarecki. Because, hey, who cares, right?

Miarecki was wrong, but I can at least see how he got there.

 

I hope we get a model kit or a high quality toy out of this.....

 

The original dish had been lost, along with the nacelle domes, so they needed to be replaced. Other changes occurred during the 1974 restoration (so it had been "touched"), but viewing it up close in the 70s, I could see the majority of what had been in front of cameras, instead of Miarecki's disastrous paint and pencil scribbling making the miniature appear like something completely different that the construction used on TOS.

 

I would welcome a scan of the 32 inch for purposes of a model, since every "3-foot" 1701 released this century, including the poorly constructed Unobtanium version, Polar Lights' various kits and Tomy's diecast were all referring to their work as a "studio scale" version, but based on the 11-footer's design.

 

I saw it years ago but I'm going to DC again next month and hope to see it again.

 

Now, we need a similarly happy resolution to that legal mess concerning Doctor Who's first serial "An Unearthly Child".

 

Oh, that photo of Doug, Michael, and Denise behind the model does this old Trekkie’s heart good.

 

Hopefully X-Rays and maybe an MRI to boot, to show the previously flat lower saucer now covered in bondo or whatever.

Actors are de-aged now…maybe it could be “de-warped.”

Having a scan of the 3-footer as is…presented in the same angle as period photographs of the time—perhaps you could “morph” your scan to fit the outline of earlier pictures and thereby have a “virtual restoration” at the very least.

X-Rays/MRI to show any hidden damage, to identify wood grain, etc.

A virtual restoration might be all that can be done, without it all splintering.

Aging occurs differently:

Tomes, parchment in the Vatican Library is pretty tough to this day—but pulps a century or less old? Disintegrating…

Perhaps Shaw’s next to it to represent it whole:
http://www.shawcomputing.net/racerx/trek_stuff/site_demo/timeline.html

I would be afraid to be in the same room as it.
I’d sneeze—and it’d explode. No horseplay!

 

OMG, get Michael Forrest to stop by and do that!!

 

Hands off, Apollo!

The Revell TOS Enterprise has a B/C deck closest to that, the original AMT closer to the Booklet of Plans blueprints (Achernar).

Steaming would make it more pliable but it would swell.

Another skill set is needed:

https://fineart-restoration.co.uk/case-studies/how-to-care-for-wooden-objects/