eaglemoss stops making STO ships due to poor sales

faxmachine

https://twitter.com/BenCSRobinson/status/1425411865866289156

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evilmark444

somtaawkhar wrote: »

Gameprint's 3D printing of people's STO ships has likely taken away people's interest in Eaglemoss STO ships.

I doubt that's it personally, the gameprint quality just isn't good enough imo especially for the price. If hand painted was still an option then maybe (I probably won't ever be buying another one since that option was removed), but that was also extremely expensive when it was offered so idk.

Imo Eaglemoss started with the wrong ships and that is probably why they didn't sell. They should've focused on the 2409 variants of more established Fed ships (Hestia, Excalibur, Resolute, Archon, Alita, etc) instead of mostly doing the 2409 variants of Disco ships, and one of the romulan ships should've been a Scimitar variant like the Flambard or Khopesh.

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fleetcaptain5

I never really understood the appeal of these.

Sure, it's a Star Trek ship and you can have your own to put on your desk... But look at how tiny these things are.

The Intrepid one for example measures only 10.3 cm. It's hard to appreciate the design with all its features, components and so on at such a small scale.

And then there's the limited customisation options and choice of ships.

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horridperson

I was surprised it lasted as long as it did. The market is terribly niche; STO players invested enough it a particular ship they want a physical copy. I'm a model builder and until very recently if you had an appreciation for detail 3D printing wasn't the place to look for it. Current generation resin printers are getting there but PLA (and whatever that sand material was) prints are pretty rough components.

angrytarg

> @horridperson said:
> I was surprised it lasted as long as it did. The market is terribly niche; STO players invested enough it a particular ship they want a physical copy. I'm a model builder and until very recently if you had an appreciation for detail 3D printing wasn't the place to look for it. Current generation resin printers are getting there but PLA (and whatever that sand material was) prints are pretty rough components.

Eaglemoss models are die cast and plastic and pretty detailed, however it's not 'your' ship. The 3D printed ones come with your customization, which is the draw in I guess.

I didn't get how Eaglemoss picked the models they made, though. Based on in-game popularity with metrics from Cryptic? As ypu said, it's a niche of a niche market - people so dedicated to STO they want a ship, and then buy even more ships as one won't cut it.

redeyedraven

somtaawkhar wrote: »

Gameprint's 3D printing of people's STO ships has likely taken away people's interest in Eaglemoss STO ships.

Gameprint is still more expensive and shipping those is a factor. Out of 1000 players, may be 5-10 would order one.

Also, 3D-printing at home is getting better as well, so those who have the hardware try to make their own miniatures or at least, they print custom parts they can add to AMT-kits for example to make their own models or modify existing ones.

evilmark444

reyan01 wrote: »

I may take a risk an order a 3D print of my Rhode Island one day - but not doing so until the in-game model gets a remaster

Yeah you definitely want to wait before printing older STO ships, otherwise you get even worse quality. When they first started doing it I printed an Excalibur with the hope that they would smooth over some of the hard edges that were obviously the result of the model having a low poly count but nope, it looks just as old as it does ingame but with the added downside of having very blurry details on the hull.