![]() On the KBoP, they forgot the base hole altogether. They put a base rod hole in the bottom large enough to accept the rods for our 5″ dome bases, but these kits will come with our small bases, so that will be less obtrusive. So the mockup shown here has the incorrect detail on the back the rear edge of the deck also shows more detail than we will end up with in production. On the Oberth, the factory made a couple mistakes. Both kits will feature snap assembly to fit right in line with our other 1:1000 snap kits.Ī few things to note on the mockups. The Bird-of-Prey will come with two sets of wing baffles to build in either cruising or attack modes. The Grissom is based on CAD work by Angelo Bastianelli and the KBoP will be based on our larger AMT kit. The KBoP is a beloved design and is in my personal list of top 5 space ship designs. A smaller ship with a debatable length of about 90 meters, we could afford to team the two ships together in a 2-piece set and allow modelers to build a collection of every ship from that film. Excelsior release, it became apparent that the last of the ships from STIII: The Search For Spock was the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. With the Refit still available and our recent U.S.S. So, what could we do? We could have reboxed our Enterprise Refit and included it in that like we did with the Botany bay in our TOS Enterprise kit, but I wanted to hold out on that and see if teaming the Refit with a dry dock kit might be viable later on. Though a 1:350 scale kit of the ship seems very appealing, we felt the need to check the reaction to a smaller investment first and come back to a large scale later if that seems feasible. A kit of this size wouldn’t be substantial enough to stand on its own. That gave us bit of pause to do as a 1:1000 scale kit. The ship is a relatively small design with an accepted length of 120 meters. Though a fan-favorite, the Grissom was infamously taken out by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in STAR TREK: The Search For Spock before other Oberths went on to appear in three more films and several episodes of ST:TNG. The Oberth-class ship is a bit of a departure from the usual Starfleet fare. However, it seems like nearly every time we’ve asked modelers what ideas they had in mind, we often found one ship asked for over and over… The U.S.S. Except for maybe the Klingon K’t’inga, we have represented most of the recognizable ships in one scale or another. It isn’t easy to do large, grand scale kits very often, but there are plenty of ships to consider at smaller scales like our popular 1:1000 scale kits. That question is usually tied to the investment needed for tooling the kit. ![]() With a great license like STAR TREK, there is no end to the subjects we can introduce as new kits, but sometimes the question does arrive of “What should we do next?”.
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