Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection was a British partwork magazine and product line that was published by Eaglemoss Collections under its Hero Collector imprint. Authorized and licensed by Paramount Consumer Products, it had been available in a number of countries worldwide.
Each fortnightly issue included a hand-painted [1] ABS and die-cast metal scaled replica of a starship from the Star Trek universe. Notably, an unparalleled variety of ship designs have been produced as display models for this line, many for the first time, beyond the scope of all other mass-production manufacturers. Unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon, Eaglemoss' Star Trek starship model line had become by far the largest starship model line of any entertainment media franchise ever released by a single company ? especially when also taking the near-identically executed follow-up Discovery, Online, Universe, and Lower Decks spin-off/sister collections into account.
Ben Robinson and his team utilized original CGI studio models for reference whenever they are available.[2] A Star Trek Fact Files veteran, reference book author, and custodian of his own Star Trek production art archive, Robinson oversees the preparation of the magazines and the selection, commissioning, and decoration of the starship miniatures. John Ainsworth, Hero Collector's Development Manager, assumed many of Robinson's roles for the production of the miniatures after the first 120 issues.
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