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You guys knew I'll be doing this, am I right?

Okay, let's get a couple of things straight: You know I'm a TOS purist and I'd pay real money to see the unadulterated 1701 in Discovery. I also know it won't happen. Audience these days wants an Enterprise designed by an art student, not an aircraft engineer.
Does this mean I dislike this incarnation of the Enterprise? Abso-friggin-lutely NO! I like this update, I think it's the third best Enterprise after the real deal and the refit. It took elements of both of these, with even hints of the Franz Joseph interpretation. This is a 1701 I could imagine being refitted after the Five-Year Mission and still remaining the same ship.

It took me a week to build this beauty. I had to balance my free time and stretch it to unhealthy levels. Yeah, I'm over thirty, the lack of sleep does take its toll. Who cares, I managed to build this thing. I was lucky to wait till a top shot of the filming model appeared, so I didn't have to rebuild my model, like I'm sure all of those who were all too impatient are doing now. Also, I used a lot of color and contrast corrected screencaps, stretching the old Mk. I Eyeball to its utmost limits, to find details others have missed: the phasers on the very bottom of the lower saucer, the same position the TOS Enterprise fired its blue beams from. The dual inset circular photorp launchers. Bits and pieces, and I still think I'll have to revotk it once more data becomes available. Then again, I am firmly of the opinion that as of the publishing of this image, my model is the most accurate apart from the original TV CGI model, of course.

I will release this model, just give me some time to rest. Building it took out my dilithium matrix and my inner Scotty is screaming about his poor bairns

Model by me
Design by John Eaves based upon the original design of Matt Jeffries

Description
You guys knew I'll be doing this, am I right?

Okay, let's get a couple of things straight: You know I'm a TOS purist and I'd pay real money to see the unadulterated 1701 in Discovery. I also know it won't happen. Audience these days wants an Enterprise designed by an art student, not an aircraft engineer.
Does this mean I dislike this incarnation of the Enterprise? Abso-friggin-lutely NO! I like this update, I think it's the third best Enterprise after the real deal and the refit. It took elements of both of these, with even hints of the Franz Joseph interpretation. This is a 1701 I could imagine being refitted after the Five-Year Mission and still remaining the same ship.

It took me a week to build this beauty. I had to balance my free time and stretch it to unhealthy levels. Yeah, I'm over thirty, the lack of sleep does take its toll. Who cares, I managed to build this thing. I was lucky to wait till a top shot of the filming model appeared, so I didn't have to rebuild my model, like I'm sure all of those who were all too impatient are doing now. Also, I used a lot of color and contrast corrected screencaps, stretching the old Mk. I Eyeball to its utmost limits, to find details others have missed: the phasers on the very bottom of the lower saucer, the same position the TOS Enterprise fired its blue beams from. The dual inset circular photorp launchers. Bits and pieces, and I still think I'll have to revotk it once more data becomes available. Then again, I am firmly of the opinion that as of the publishing of this image, my model is the most accurate apart from the original TV CGI model, of course.

I will release this model, just give me some time to rest. Building it took out my dilithium matrix and my inner Scotty is screaming about his poor bairns

Model by me
Design by John Eaves based upon the original design of Matt Jeffries