Rewrites: NONE YET
In this Eaglemoss vs. The World article, we are going to take a look at a rather sinister looking vessel, the Devore Warship.
Per Memory Alpha and Beta, "The Devore warship was a type of warship used by the Devore Imperium to patrol their territory in the Delta Quadrant. They sometimes operated in squadrons. Tactically, a single Devore warship was comparable to a Federation Intrepid-class starship. The vessel was equipped with refractive shielding, which rendered it difficult to detect on sensors."
If you would like to read more official stuff on this type of ship, feel free to check out the following links:
Devore Warship Information: Memory Alpha LINK and Memory Beta LINK
Here are several other different angles of the ship.
Traditionally, I only like to focus my reviews on the models themselves, but once in a while, I feel that it is my responsibility to warn my readers of other problems that I happen across. In this case, the stand does not hold the model very well. Be cautious of how and where you display this model.
When I first unboxed the model, I had a hard time figuring out where the front of the ship was. Eventually, after looking at the magazine, I figured it out. I don't feel all that bad about this though as apparently, the ships's creator admits in the magazine that to this day, he still can't decide which way he prefers the ship to be going. Additionally, we learn that the model was used in three other Star Trek: Voyager episodes and one star Trek: Enterprise episode. In one of the Star Trek: Voyager episodes called "Drive", the ship can be seen at the starting line for the Antarian Trans-stellar Rally, and it is turned around for that episode.
Photo Credit: Memory Alpha
The model's paintwork is simple, yet very effective with a majority of the model painted with a solid gunmetal grey. This paint is then broken up by weathering streaks of a lighter grey paint. Tiny windows have been painted across the model to give you a real sense of size.
Impulse Engine
Warp Nacelle
The sculpt and mold work is phenomenal and makes the ship look like it is covered from head to toe in some sort of Kevlar like armor.
One more bonus feature of this model is the shuttle bay in the bottom of the ship. This area never made an on-screen appearance, so the fact that Eaglemoss was able to put it into the model is rather cool.
It is really hard to tell, but it appears that Eaglemoss used translucent blue plastic along the "nacelles" and then painted on top of them to add even more detail. This makes for an additional cool effect to the nacelles that compliments the green paint.
And that is it for all the close-up pictures that I have to share at this time. As for pricing, I will continue with the tradition of rounding up the most inexpensive Buy-It-Now prices from eBay at the time of this article's writing (June 2020).
Eaglemoss = $28
NOTE: Prices were researched last on June 15th, 2020. Unfortunately, at the time that I am re-writing this, Eaglemoss does not have this ship in stock on their US WebStore, so we are at the mercy of the eBay sellers.
It is a little unsettling that the model is not available through Eaglemoss directly, but thankfully, the eBay sellers don't seem to be gouging us on the price and the costs I saw were right in line with what I come to expect to pay through those third party sources.
I share all that because I really liked this model. For an alien ship, it is well built and well painted and conveys the right atmosphere that the original designer wanted to get across to us. Eaglemoss did a fantastic job of reproducing it for us. This alien ship model is definitely recommended by me if it is something that you like to collect for your personal model fleet as well.
As always, I hope you found this article useful and informative. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to comment below.
So for now, "Live long and prosper!!!"
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