Wow. It's really looking great.

Very nice.

I like it!

Painted and decaled:

Up close pics, not happy with the shuttle pod, the red bled a bit when I applied a gloss coat, so I'll have to redo that but overall very satisfied with the final product.

Not too used to working on these very small models so I can see where I need to make improvements on the next model, but this came out very well. Its one of those "holy grail" kits, Now if I can somehow convince Cosmo models to reissue the Silent Running Valley Forge kit, I'll be in 7th Heaven 

Oh very cool!!! She was the ship right between the space shuttle and the original NCC-1701 on the plaques in the rec room on The Motion Picture right?

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Oh very cool!!! She was the ship right between the space shuttle and the original NCC-1701 on the plaques in the rec room on The Motion Picture right?

Indeed, the 'forgotten' Enterprise that the current Trekdom seems unwilling to justify in the current canon. There are several different contradicting sources of information. So I chose what I consider the most logical.

Launched about 50 years after the Valiant, but 30 years before the NX01 Enterprise, she was the first real deep space starship to be sent on long duration missions after the Valiant disaster, using an improved Vulcan Annular Warp drive rings, speed was still limited to warp 2.1, which gives NX01 the technological jump to warp 5. But with a much smaller living space, crews would be much smaller than the NX01. 

I always envisioned a timeline where after the Valiant goes missing and after the Terra Nova disaster, both happening less than a decade after First Contact, the Vulcan High Command ceased aiding the Earth Federation under the grounds that Humans were moving too recklessly into deep space missions and attempted to put a muzzle on further human deep space exploration until the Vulcans determined sufficient technological advancements had been made to assure a degree of safety in warp flight and an increased maturity among the "illogical" humans. But the Earth Federation continued on their own initiative, planning and developing their own technology without Vulcan aid, the Cochran camp continued developing the NX-A and NX-B testbeds with eventually culminated in the NX-01 Enterprise, but before that, the remnant United States Navy and Air Forces developed its own warp project, using 'borrowed' Vulcan schematics, and much to Vulcan chagrin created an improved deep space exploration prototype, XCV329 Declaration, the XCV330 Enterprise, and the XCV331 Resolution.  The Declaration was only ever used as a near -Earth warp engineering platform testbed, and hence there's no service record for her, and the Resolution was canceled by the nascent Earth government for budget overruns after the cat was out of the bag. Budget overruns? the Pentagon? Really? ;-) She was completed only after Enterprises success. But the Enterprise was built and was the first Earth Starship to go on the first of many successful historic "five year missions" cataloging "strange new worlds" in the area that would eventually become the core the future "United Federation of Planets". Nice Story.

Sounds like a alot better TV series than Enterprise ever was

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Wow!

As for the Valley Forge...some day.

Weird, I posted a respond and seemed it didn't post.

Anyway, yeah it does seem funny to me that they wrote her out of the timeline. I guess the Vulcan hoop ships are a homage to her. I like your story, it does explain the similarity to the Vulcan ships and keeps her in the timeline.  

sweet build, BashMonkey. i'm sure it looks good on your shelf.

Well that's cool. I am one of the ignorant that had no knowledge of this older Enterprise. I like it and the story of it's Vulcan drive origins. You did a great job finishing her with your greebly additions.