![]() ![]() Standard configuration features Inara’s shuttle taking off while the other shuttle is docked in its bay. It comes with an acrylic cradle that shows Serenity in flight. Serenity’s display base/diorama looks like a landing pad straight out of The Verse. The SFX Edition replica includes a wireless remote control to operate lights with a special button for activating “hard burn.” Lighting system automatically shuts down after 15 minutes to help protect the both the lights and model. Nathan Fillion, Captain Mal himself, will be signing the builder’s plaque that comes with each Big Damn Replica. Serenity – The Big Damn Replica incorporates some 32 lighting effects, including static, flashing, strobe and chase lights. All graphics on Serenity are painted on by hand, even Serenity’s logo. Surfaces are crafted to simulate real-world materials – metal, ceramic, even the mirrored surfaces of the solar panels. Weathering, wear and other painting effects are used to exactly mirror the movie version of ship. Some 30 different colors, including flat and metallic paint, are used in the ship’s multilayer paint job. Many of the parts are custom-cut by hand, just for your replica. The kit used to build Serenity consists of more than 250 parts, including resin, brass, aluminum and laser-cut acrylic. Our Serenity measures 19″x12″x7″, or 1:180 scale. Some of the features of Serenity – The Big Damn Replica: Years of intense effort have gone into all aspects of this model, from the model sculpture built from the movie special-effects master files to the paint job created to match not just the colors of the ship, but the materials as well. ![]() Every bolt, every seam and every asymmetrical plate has been recreated with exacting attention to detail in this first and only screen-accurate replica of Serenity. When it came time to develop this replica, we could do no less. With such a sense of place and familiarity, viewers would never feel lost in this Firefly-class transport. As one of her creators observed, the idea was to make Serenity so real, fans could see themselves walking her decks. Unlike most ships from science fiction, Serenity was designed from the ground up to be as realistic as possible, from her floor plan to her construction, using real-world components and manufacturing processes. More than three years in the making, Serenity – The Big Damn Replica, has been painstakingly crafted to be absolutely screen-accurate in every aspect. And let me tell you why… Or better yet, let Quantum Mechanix tell you why: Then why bother posting this since there are so few made and it’s been such a long time ago that this was released? Surely they must have been sold out already? They’re not. There will be only 1.000 made of this beautiful ship. ![]()
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