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More of the golden starships

  • ️Thu Feb 17 2011

Lots of questions about what was on the Nemesis set in regard to the gold ships, and here is a quick follow up answer with pics.  For Insurrection I was asked to make three more of each ship for the Observation lounge.  By this time the Enterprise “B”, “C”, and “E” kits were available, so those were used instead of what was done previously.  The kits were all filled with resin again and plated; the script changed after these were built, and they were no longer needed,,,, on top of that, I paid for everything out of pocket, and because the work was written out and I hadn’t submitted an invoice. I got stuck with the bill,,, So in return they let me keep the models,,, A few years later Nemesis came to be and all those ships were used, but this time they wanted to have 12 ships spread across two cases.  So in addition to the 3 sets of the original 6 ships, I built a Voyager, Excelsior, Grissom, Reliant, The Space Shuttle STS-1, and the Enterprise carrier CV-65.  I had already given the previously plated models to John Dwyer to start setting in the case.  I got the other ships done in about a week and took them to the stage and he had already filled the cases twice with doubles of the original 6.  It was too much work to take out and replace the dups with the new so they didn’t make it on the big screen, but they did wind up at my house again.  Here are some dusty pics of the ones that didn’t make it!

voyager

Voyager

Grissom, and Excelsior in the back

Grissom, and Excelsior in the back

reliant

Reliant

reliant from the rear

Reliant from the rear

observation lounge (Nemesis) right side

Nemesis version of the Observation Lounge -- right side

Lounge left side

Nemesis version of the Observation Lounge -- left side