"Time I caught up with my Eaglemoss reviews! Next in line in The Official Starships Collection is the USS Defiant, so how did Eaglemoss do with this tough little ship? Well it's pretty good overall, but marred by one unfortunate error. Read on to find out more.
The first thing I noticed about this model is that's is quite light, and indeed small. In fact it's the shortest (on its longest side) of any ship in the series up to this issue, just 11cm long; which makes it overall about the same size as the saucer section of the Enterprise-D model. I'm a little surprised by this, as the smaller ships in the series generally have been the ones restricted in overall size due to being long thin designs. The Defiant has the exact opposite proportions, it's pretty much bang-on the 4:3 ratio of the standard box size of these ships, which is why I was anticipating it would be one of the more substantial models in the series. Perhaps that was exactly the reason they decided to make it a bit smaller; maybe it looked too big compared to the other more spindly ships?
Anyway, while being a little smaller than expected, it's still a reasonable handful of starship. The dorsal side of the primary hull is the metal component of this model, with the underside, nacelles and nose all in plastic. Both metal and plastic components have molded details, and while the plastic parts are, as ever, fractionally sharper in those details, the metal section holds up very well, and overall there's a nice consistent finish to the ship…"
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Hope you enjoy!.
Amicalement
Armand
goes back to the year 2000!
