[DESKTOP MODELS, USS LOS ANGELES NUCLEAR SUBMARINE]. On offer here is ORIGINAL DESKTOP MODEL OF THE USS LOS ANGELES NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE. This model measures 21 in long by 2 in wide on a wooden base measuring 10.5 in x 5.5 in. There is also a brass plaque on the base which reads:’ USS LOS ANGELES – SSN – 688 – NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE’. The model appears constructed from model resin. The port side sail plane has a piece broken and missing. Additionally, the model at just about the lower middle portion has two visible cracks in the body of the resin. (likely from the heat within the storage unit). The model was VERY dirty when we found it. We cleaned it up some, but left the rest of the’as found’ dirt after someone who bought another of our Jein models wished it had the’original dirt’. This model comes from the collection of iconic motion picture model maker Greg Jein of Los Angeles. This model came from one of his storage units vs. One of his houses where we also bought a few things. Greg was the model shop supervisor for the 1990 action thriller,’ The Hunt for Red October’ and one of the featured American submarines was the USS Dallas, a Los Angeles Class attack submarine. Jein either made this model himself for reference or acquired an existing desk model to use for proportions and shape to make other screen ready models. We do not believe this was a screen used model, but served other functions for the production. This is the only movie which would have used a Los Angeles Class submarine Jein worked on and the USS Dallas depiction was the first time a Los Angeles Class sub was used in a movie production. An interesting and very early (probably late 1970’s; if Jein acquired it from a defense contractor – 1989 ; if Jein built it himself) By any measure a scarce and important desk model of an important US nuclear attack submarine. Desk model submarines of this age are scarce to rare. Greg Jein (born October 31, 1945 in Los Angeles, USA; died May 22, 2022 in Los Angeles) was a Chinese American model designer who created miniatures for use in the special effects portions of many films and television series, beginning in the 1970s. Jein was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on the films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and 1941 (1979), and also nominated for an Outstanding Special Visual Effects Emmy for his work on Angels in America. One of Jein’s first jobs was building models for the sex comedy spoof Flesh Gordon; this was followed by work on a number of television series, commercials and movies including Wonder Woman and The UFO Incident. In 1975 he was contacted by Douglas Trumbull’s office and asked to do some work on Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. For that film Jein contributed a number of models including miniature landscapes for UFOs to fly over, but most significantly he and his crew built the detailed mothership model that features heavily in the final sequence of the film after Spielberg decided he wanted “a more flamboyant design”. For their work Jein, Trumbull, Roy Arbogast, Matthew Yuricich, and Richard Yuricich were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 50th Academy Awards, but lost to the team who produced the effects for Star Wars. Jein then went on to work on Spielberg’s next film, 1941, where he and his team constructed a number of models including a twelve-foot model of the Ferris wheel that’s dislodged from its mount and rolls down the pier and into the water. For their work on 1941 Jein, William A. Flowers were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 52nd Academy Awards but lost this time to the team who provided the effects for Ridley Scott’s Alien. After working on 1941, Jein was invited by Douglas Trumbull to work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture building planetary models for Spock’s spacewalk scene and the interior of the V’Ger craft. Jein continued his association with Star Trek through a number of the movies, building alien weapons for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Starfleet helmets for the assassination scene in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In 1986 he and a team at Industrial Light & Magic built the original six-foot model of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) designed by Andrew Probert for the pilot of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He would go on to build a number of models for The Next Generation including the Ferengi Marauder starship (also designed by Andrew Probert) during the first season of the show, and the Klingon Vor’cha (designed by Rick Sternbach) for the fourth season. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 8 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 8 January 1972. She was launched on 6 April 1974 sponsored by Anne Armstrong, and commissioned on 13 November 1976. She hosted President Jimmy Carter and the First Lady on 27 May 1977 for an at-sea demonstration of her capabilities. In 2007 she was the oldest submarine in active service with the United States Navy. The Navy decommissioned Los Angeles on 23 January 2010, in the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, her namesake city.