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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CMC Airboss on March 21, 2005, 10:17:58 PM
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Perhaps the most detailed model ever built, this 1:72nd scale USS Enterprise CVN 65 has gone up for auction at Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6520154898&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1
Better have a BIG room!
MiG
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amazing:eek:
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That's the coolest thing ever!
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Man that is amazing. That guy's job must be model building and if it isn't he needs to take it up.
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I don't wanna be an arse.... or a critic... because that IS really cool.... but for a quarter of a million dollars some things kind of jump out at me. Erhm, one thing, mainly.
The overwhelming lack of paint.
He's lettin' the grey plastic speak for itself. It's huge, but it resembles a gigantic unfinished huge.
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Reminds of the one in the Air and Space Museum, Only a tad bigger I would say.
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Someone has had a lot of free time in his hands.
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I don't wanna be an arse.... or a critic... because that IS really cool.... but for a quarter of a million dollars some things kind of jump out at me. Erhm, one thing, mainly. The overwhelming lack of paint.
He's lettin' the grey plastic speak for itself. It's huge, but it resembles a gigantic unfinished huge.
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The ship is scratch built, and not necessarily with plastic, which means it must be painted to look uniform and neat. not to mention the navy aren't known for having loud colors.
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Yeah it needs a better Air Wing say Yankee Station with Colorful F-4's and A-6's, A-7's, Viggies too.
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Originally posted by Seraphim
The ship is scratch built, and not necessarily with plastic, which means it must be painted to look uniform and neat. not to mention the navy aren't known for having loud colors.
That doesn't look like wood to me. If it was scratch built, it was scratch built from unpainted grey plastic.
Okay that does it... I am an arse. :D
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They don't use wood either, somemodelers use card stock (or something similar), I've seen this one before and don't remember off hand everything he used, but I'm pretty sure it just wasn't simple grey plastic. Also, it is written in the description that it is scratch built (how many companies make a carrier that big?).
Either way, it's not easy to make a seamless model without paint, in any scale.
P.S. I built the enterprise in 1/350 scale, the paint looks far different from normal plastic. Plastic has a dull shine to it.
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It's definately painted.
I'm guessing he used a lot of styrene ( sp?) plastic, which is usually white, and some wood for the big things that require some strength just to hold together something that big.
But I can see what Nash is saying.....all the rigging/equipment/rails/ etc. and equipment is the exact same color grey, with no differing shades.
Still, it's painted....no way can it not be painted.....but he should have varied the paint shades a little on the details.
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1/4 million LOL:rofl
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thing is, someone will buy it.
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Originally posted by NUKE
thing is, someone will buy it.
Yup.
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If I had the cash and a way to display it to do the ship justice - I would.
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Outstanding model but only a very disturbed retard would pay that for it.
For 250 i would buy it. For 2500 id buy it as an investment.
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Originally posted by NUKE
It's definately painted.
I'm guessing he used a lot of styrene ( sp?) plastic, which is usually white, and some wood for the big things that require some strength just to hold together something that big.
But I can see what Nash is saying.....all the rigging/equipment/rails/ etc. and equipment is the exact same color grey, with no differing shades.
Still, it's painted....no way can it not be painted.....but he should have varied the paint shades a little on the details.
Navy only uses one shade of grey, Haze Grey. Even when a new coat is put on over the old its only "slightly" lighter than the old coat. He did good IMHO, looks like all the bird farms I unrepped back in the late 80's.
Oh, and Nash is an arse, always has been, always will be.
:aok
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That is so unique It might just sell to some collector with the bucks and space. A good retirement fund if it works out. Wonder what he will start next :)
Charon
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It is cool.... but $250,000! I bet you could commission someone to make one for a 10th of that.
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Look don't knock it. That is a totaly amazing thing. A masterpiece. Should be in a Museum so that the public can enjoy.
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Does that sum***** float? for 250k it better, and it better produce its own freshwater as well, otherwise it's a very expensive and extrordinarily well built dust collector.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Navy only uses one shade of grey, Haze Grey. Even when a new coat is put on over the old its only "slightly" lighter than the old coat. He did good IMHO, looks like all the bird farms I unrepped back in the late 80's.
Oh, and Nash is an arse, always has been, always will be.
:aok
Nash has a very valid point though. Modelling is only 1/2 construction. The paintjob is weak. The model itself is amazing, but there's dozens of techniques you can use when painting personell, vehicles, etc... and I don't see any of them. Look at the deck crane. It looks like it's straight from a Tonka box.
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If the planes are detachable, and I can make them do pretend CAP I'm....... IN
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Originally posted by Red Tail 444
Does that sum***** float? for 250k it better, and it better produce its own freshwater as well, otherwise it's a very expensive and extrordinarily well built dust collector.
Float? Perhaps you want one of these instead? Perhaps a little smaller but it can fit a man inside! :)
(http://wmunderway.8m.com/gallery6/ro5c.JPG)
(http://wmunderway.8m.com/gallery6/ro5.JPG)
(http://wmunderway.8m.com/gallery6/ro5b.jpg)
More: http://wmunderway.8m.com/gallery6/gallery6.htm
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Ya know,
I'd buy it, but then 2 days later, I'd find my sons sitting on top of it - having squashed almost everything on the deck - saying ! Within a week you'd know what every component was made out of it and have a rough estimate of their tensile strength.
Only the Tonka crane would survive.
- SEAGOON
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Damn, thought it was gonna be the one from star trek
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i would buy it, and promptly melt it using a blowtorch infront of the guy that made it ;)
if i had the money to waste of course...
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Many of his friends and relatives can not believe that he even considered parting with it.
This looks like a domestic deal to me. The wife told him to get rid of it 'cause it's taking too much space and eating to much of his (read 'her') time. Then he says he should at least sell it. She's okay with that. The $250,000 pricetag is so that no one will buy it and he gets to keep it - "I tried, honey. I'll put it up for auction again next year. Meanwhile I'll add this and this and this to make sure it's more valuable then."
Pretty cagey, I'd say.
- sudz
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(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/94_1089123829_enterprisemodel2.jpg)
At the Air and Space Museum.
Also at the A&SM
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/94_1089055893_airshow042.jpg)
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F14s give me a hardon.
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Originally posted by Octavius
F14s give me a hardon.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/44_1111526266_soubar2.jpg)
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:cool:
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Is this the same one that's in the Air & Space Museum?
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The video really brings out the detail. This guy did a hell of a job. I don't recognise his accent though. Any recognise it?
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Outstanding model but only a very disturbed retard would pay that for it.
For 250 i would buy it. For 2500 id buy it as an investment.
investment in what, celibacy?
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The funny thing is that $250,000.00 is just the starting bid. He has a reserve on it that could be much higher.
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250,000 is cheap if you consider the cost of some of the old scratch built wood ships. I'm sure if it's museum quality a museum will pick it up.
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Originally posted by bigsky
investment in what, celibacy?
lol no :D
if i got it for 2500 im pretty sure i could get some loser to buy it for alot more on ebay
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Its a museum piece.
Who's got space for that?
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I have room for it, but the plan is to put a snooker table there when I can afford it. :)
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Originally posted by Sandman
Is this the same one that's in the Air & Space Museum?
no
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Originally posted by midnight Target
no
whats with the negative attitude ?
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He don't like whitey, they been holdin' him down too long.
-SW
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
He don't like whitey, they been holdin' him down too long.
-SW
foshizzle.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Outstanding model but only a very disturbed retard would pay that for it.
For 250 i would buy it. For 2500 id buy it as an investment.
You know nothing.
Buy it. Make a movie. Use the model in the movie for the ship sinking blowing up whatever.
Very good value for that purpose.
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Would not be politicaly correct to blow up Enterprise :o
Oh unless i made the movie in Iran. yeah, it would be blockbuster with 6 outa 6 turbans in all the free iranian press.
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Hey the White House has been destroyed in many movies. The thing is to make the ending one where the US comes back and kicks serious bellybutton as a result.
Then it gets two thumbs up..
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but still..
ITS THE ENTERPRISE!!
even I have feelings for that one.
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Nice model, but this is MUCH more impressive.
1/15 scale USS Arizona
(http://wmunderway.8m.com/gallery13/arizona4.jpg)
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Originally posted by United
Nice model, but this is MUCH more impressive.
1/15 scale USS Arizona
(http://wmunderway.8m.com/gallery13/arizona4.jpg)
Cool. Get back to us in, oh, about 20 years.
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Anyone with enough freetime to build that obviously needs an AH account.