Star Trek Beyond Enterprise NCC-1701-A model built and lighted, and the only one in the World!

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Star Trek beyond USS ENTERPRISE model built and lighted “May 2017”

This is my built and lighted model of the new USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701-A from Star Trek Beyond and is the only physical model in existence! 

My goal was to build this new ship but to make it more appealing, I took the original design concept art which was done by Sean Hargreaves and that which we saw in the film at the end when it was being built in star base Yorktown with the time lapse scene, I personally was very disappointed when I saw it for the first time on the big screen, the warp nacelles position was just awful like they were stuck on the very end of the nacelle struts, and they looked too similar in design to the USS FRANKLIN which was a much older ship so it kind of gave it a sense of going backwards with technology, it was as though Starfleet went through the spares bin and found some old nacelles to stick on! so I used my artistic licence to build the ship with alterations to make it better looking than what was on screen and Sean Hargreaves concept art which was just hideous from the side view “sorry Sean”, I ended up positioning the nacelles slightly more forward on the struts to give them a better sense of balance and a small overhang at the front ends, also I made the engineering section slightly more thinner looking as I thought it was a bit too chunky/fat looking, in the end I have built the new Enterprise-A that looks like what we saw in the film but with some of the previous JJ Enterprise in it like from the 2009 and into darkness ship, for example more sleek looking design, I did make the nacelles slightly bigger too compared to what was seen in the film again to give a cross over from the previous enterprise ship, as you don't see the shuttle bay in the film i simply made up my own design and discarded the Hargreaves design as some people said it looked like an ass!

At the end of the day it comes down to personal preferences, I must admit that it has grown on me from when I first saw it, it is the Enterprise and will most likely change from what we have seen to when Star Trek 4 eventually comes out, then probably get destroyed again!

Features are: Measures 21” long and a custom made base that the model is able to rotate 360 degrees on which also has a 50^th Anniversary logo and a brass engraved plate to depict the NCC-1701-A, as you can see from the photos it is impressive, the warp nacelles also have rotating/spinning bussard blades.

As there is very little pictures of this new ship I resorted to pausing the film on Blu Ray which showed some detail that i have used on the model such as the emergency escape life pods added to the hull surfaces around the bridge area, plus there is arboretum windows that are lit up blue, the bridge is fitted with console and chairs which are very small and hard to see now that it is in the model, the overall colour is a light Grey with the Aztecs done in a pearl colour to give it a nice effect!

The model is powered by a 12v transformer

Small white dot light around the outer edge of the deflector dish.

Double impulse crystals / domes

Movie look with dark shadows and bright sunlight effect from above!

Reflection of the underside 

Macro mode showing Life pod hatches 

Very close up using macro mode!

 have many photos but will stick with just a few! unless people request to see more.