USS Enterprise ("No bloody A, B, C, or D.....!")

[Orne M]

Some of this was posted a few weeks ago in the "Your best what-if model....."

Adding links to detail shots, etc., and the 'alternate history' of the ship, Year Five of Kirk's original mission:

   "Captain's Log, StarDate 2270.3.....We are a weary ship.  Intelligence reports have reached Enterprise that a Romulan armada is massing beyond the Neutral Zone.  A brief yet thorough upgrade of Enterprise has recently been put to the test, with the Klingons, restrained by the Organian Treaty from overt hostilities, supporting an immense Romulan military buildup.  Violent forays into the Federation, launched through the Neutral Zone by Romulan ships with improved cloaking devices, have led StarFleet Command to bolster a stern presence.  Enterprise has been at the center of every engagement.   Those few suspected Romulan ships that evaded immediate destruction, in turn self-destructed to avoid identification.  It may only be a matter of time before the Romulans decide that StarFleet is weakened by the constant incursions, and unleash their juggernaut.
   "We are a weary ship......but Enterprise stands ready."

   "Chief Engineer's Log.....To counter the loss of half the Constitution cruisers in StarFleet service since the beginning of our five-year mission in 2266, Enterprise was put through a rapid upgrade, adding phaser and photon torpedo emplacements, and a radical armoring of the hull utilizing neutronium foils 'skinned' from the hull of the Doomsday Machine, a procedure crafted by Commander Spock and successfully rendered by StarFleet's Corp of Engineers.  A new warp-engine - developed from data collected by Enterprise during several alien encounters which upgraded the ship's propulsion system - now capably delivers Warp 11.
   "There's an old Vulcan proverb: "Does it have a Hemi?"  The old girl does, in spades....."

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Rebellion Creations' 1/350 scale TOS E Starship saucer, eng. hull, and nacelle modules assembled in heavy cruiser configuration.  Modified dorsal pylon includes extended saucer connection, and scratchbuilt photon torpedo bay, two forward, one aft, with modified ERTL Reliant kit parts.  Phaser turrets are 3mm glass beads.  Rear bridge extension with airlock hatch scratchbuilt from sheet plastic.  Kitbashed/scratchbuilt warp-drive powerplant.

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Model spraybombed with Duplicolor Pewter and Light Blue metallics, with Krylon clears for finish.  Lettering is from the Polar Lights Enterprise kit and Greywolf decal sheets.  The pennants were cut from Goldberg trimsheet.  The windows, sensor domes, and clear nacelle domes were painted with acrylics mixed with glow-medium.  Gridlines drawn in with ink pens.

[The Rat]

From what I saw it looks way cool, but my connection seemed to have some issues with the pictures, only got 2 of them through. 

[Orne M]

Just made a random check of the links, they're working.  Try this, link to main album page:
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scrollbar in upper left corner takes you to the rest of the photo-pages