For the D4 virtually the whole magazine is devoted to how the designers created the ship. Then the focus moves to how the TV show or movie’s ship was designed with perhaps a few sketches or variants. Normally he magazines begin with a section introducing the fictional history and construction of the ship, often with a schematic. The D4’s magazine is different to most other model’s. Reader Alan suggested I make mention in my posts of the accompanying magazines, which I think is an excellent idea. Here a few joins are more jarring, but at least nothing is wonky or out of place. Underneath the story is not so good as the wings are lacking details, made all the more stark by the fact the underside of the hull is given the same level of care as seen from above. There are no unexpected joins and it feels great to hold. Nevertheless connecting components and hydraulics are obvious on the underside demonstrating the effect without implementing it.įrom above the model looks really great, and it’s a credit to Eaglemoss that they’ve been able to reproduce the D4 in such a detailed and well constructed manner. The wings are of course not articulated, unlike as seen in ST:Into Darkness, but that’s hardly a surprise. With the menacing ‘spine’ that runs along the top of the hull it looks amazing. Right at the end of there is a piece of a transparent plastic for the exhaust and the rest of the engine is darker coloured than the rest of the ship. You can see right inside the model to see glimpses of internal components. It’s chunky, well detailed and the grills at the end are excellent. The main body of the ship is well executed. I would have liked them to have used a separate piece of translucent plastic for the cockpit window rather than had them painted on in green. The underside is almost devoid of any of these markings unfortunately, though a few parts of the main hull are turquoise and darker grey. All over the ship is painted a simple gunmetal grey with off-orange markings in a well executed worn effect.
Mounted on both wings are aggressive looking weapons, a nice break from the usual phaser strips and pointed emitters of other ships. The wings are ornate and consist of jagged edges, struts and protruding chunks of hull. Taking the ship out of its polystyrene packaging I was immediately impressed with the intricacy of the model.
After a lacklustre start with the JJ Abrams Enterprise and Deep Space Nine the specials started to become more special with the USS Vengenace and now the Klingon D4 Class takes it up a notch. The special edition models are supposed to be larger and more detailed than the regular fortnightly models and this fourth model does not disappoint.
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