Author Topic: USS Enterprise on Ebay (Read 1996 times)

CMC Airboss · « **on:** March 21, 2005, 10:17:58 PM »

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

RedTop · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:40:11 PM »

amazing:eek:

NUKE · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:46:41 PM »

That's the coolest thing ever!

Raider179 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:51:15 PM »

Man that is amazing. That guy's job must be model building and if it isn't he needs to take it up.

Nash · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:09:54 PM »

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.

Nefarious · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:13:03 PM »

Reminds of the one in the Air and Space Museum, Only a tad bigger I would say.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:38:52 PM »

Someone has had a lot of free time in his hands.

Seraphim · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:44:08 PM »

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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.

Nefarious · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:49:37 PM »

Yeah it needs a better Air Wing say Yankee Station with Colorful F-4's and A-6's, A-7's, Viggies too.

Nash · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:50:24 PM »

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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.

Seraphim · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:57:13 PM »

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.

NUKE · « **Reply #11 on:** March 22, 2005, 12:04:26 AM »

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.

wombatt · « **Reply #12 on:** March 22, 2005, 01:19:49 AM »

1/4 million LOL:rofl

NUKE · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2005, 01:34:42 AM »

thing is, someone will buy it.

wombatt · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2005, 01:42:07 AM »

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Originally posted by NUKE
thing is, someone will buy it.

Yup.