Star Trek Filming Models from TNG to VOY going up for Auction
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That is so cool! Makes me wanna build my own scratch built starship miniature. 
For the Voyager ship model, I wonder why they didn't do the same light blue/dark green paint style used on the 1701-D? Did they know they would transition to CGI within a couple of years (assuming the show would make it that long) and deliberately simplified the paint job?
I don't know enough about that model to give you a good answer. Sorry, anybody else want to chime in on the Pre-Voyager design that didn't make it?
Some posters spoiler video embeds so the video doesn't start loading if you don't want it to, and I guess it just snowballed from there even though it wasn't really a "spoiler."Why all the spoiler tags?
I'm sensitive to those who run on crappier hardware.Why all the spoiler tags?
Not everybody has Top of the Line PC's to run everything.
If you have too many Embedded YT Videos, they have a tendency to bog down page loads on intial viewing of said page.
Spoiler Tags allows the user to control what elements load, when they want to.
It makes everything MUCH faster for the end user.
That Voyager model was only a proof-of-concept maquette done during pre-production, so they weren’t going for high-finish. It was mainly to show off the design for the showrunners and studio brass.
I don’t follow these kind of things too closely, but I noticed that some of these ship models seem to keep coming up again and again after being listed (and sold, presumably) in earlier auctions. That model of the T’Pau, for example; I remember that being one of the items sold in the Christie’s auction from years ago. And I wonder: Are people buying these only to once again sell them just a couple of years down the line? Or is there something else going on?
You mean Christie’s is flat out lying when they say the T’Pau model sold for $14,400 (“price realised”)?
Yes, but spoiler tags are, for some reason, being used for parts of the conversation in this thread as well.
That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Oh, some models do actually end up in collectors' hands, but they're usually the hero models. Second-tier ships like these tend to get bought and resold. Heck, I've seen this Voyager study model tons of times on different auction sites. It even turned up on eBay once. But this was the first time there was ever a human to scale it with, so I had no idea that it was so big until now. I had just assumed it was like 18 inches or something.
No. But that was in October 2006. The ship, and a couple of others were recently auctioned with VERY high reserves. None of the ships that were recently auctioned by Propstore sold.
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For collectors like me, I can only dream to own a ship model. I have in my collection a PADD from Generations, a painting by Andrew Probert from 1979 showing what he thought a future starship would look like (inspiration for the D) as well as some labels from TNG and DS9.
Some items sell for very high prices as there are some famous collectors like Tom Hanks, Elon Musk etc... who can pay big money! I wish I had purchased some stuff from the It's a Wrap Auction, some peices have seen massive increases in value since then. Others, like the T'Pau have not. Interestingly, set used peices from the Kelvin movie go cheap. I have a turbolift panel from Beyond that was only $100.
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