Enterprise

[Moses03]

These guys were ahead of their time in 1964.

Kind of funny to see the 1950/60's vintage cars on the street near the futuristic starship.



"The original model and the guys who built it in December, 1964 (left to right): Richard C. Datin, Jr., Mel Keys, and Vernon Sion (not pictured, Volmer Jensen)"

More here:

http://trekmovie.com/2015/01/26/smit...ration-effort/

[Ian Warren]

Now that's what I call creative thinking for the time

[PRB]

Wow. Nice! I always liked the original version over the newer ones with all the swoopty curves and such. That's cool.

[Moses03]

I always liked the original version over the newer ones with all the swoopty curves and such.

Me too.

The name Volmer Jensen rang a bell (the designer not pictured above). Has to be the Volmer Jensen that designed many real aircraft.

http://www.ssa.org/FinalGlide?id=662


Edit:

Yup, it's the same guy. Cool.

http://www.geocities.ws/danncheryl/volmer_jensen.html

[PRB]

Interesting about Jensen.

I suppose one day I should complete this AMT kit of NCC-1701. I've had it for a couple decades now...

[pilottj]

Thats a very nice picture of the original model. I also liked the original, tho I think 1701A is my favorite. The original ship was designed by Matt Jefferies, who designed a lot of things for the show such as ships, interiors, props, sets. What is amazing if you think about it, is he, and the set/model builders did it all with the show's shoestring budget. Matt was also an avid pilot.



Cheers
TJ

[Daveroo]

i think whats cool about the top picture is that ford galaxy....get it?..space ship and a galaxy??....i so funny

[Ferry_vO]

Interesting about Jensen.

I suppose one day I should complete this AMT kit of NCC-1701. I've had it for a couple decades now...

Is that the Santa maria next to it? I've had a kit of that as a kid (Got it as a birthday gift, together with a kit of the USS Constitution.); problem is, I never really cared for boats (Even though I am Dutch and we used to rule the seas in the past..) so it spent about twenty years in my closet until I finally threw it out... Never even started it! The Constitution I painted the hull a bit, but never progressed any further. Guess I was more into planes, cars and trucks back then. Mostly armour these days.

I think this was my kit:

[PRB]

Hi Ferry. Oops, this thread "dropped off my scan", so to speak, and then I cleaned out my attachments. Yes, that was (is) Santa Maria. The kit is a 1/90 scale by Revell, from many years ago. I've had it for a couple decades, and started working on it a few months ago. It's interesting, for a Flight Sim guy, my "historical passion" has probably leaned a bit more towards ships than planes, but just barely... I'm up to the hard part now - the rigging...

[Tako_Kichi]

When I was in my early teens I built a model of HMS Victory for my uncle and he insisted I painted it with lead-free, non-toxic paint (not easy to find in the early 70's). After it was finished he had me shoot holes in the hull with my .22 air rifle!

He then filled the hull with fine gravel and sank it in his 8 ft long x 4 ft high x 2 ft wide aquarium for his tropical fish to play in!