OK, been a while since I've posted here, but here ya go.
I've gotten back to Trek again after a short hiatus of mostly building Battlestar Galactica stuff. I've gotten my focus back and am working to finish some few Trek models here and there. First up has been a Sovereign, an E-D, almost my entire Klingon Fleet and some few Fed and Romulan stragglers. Those are still in-work, but as the paint dries on those, I construct more.
My Trek focus has come back to an idea I had about a year or so ago to do several Mirror Universe Trek ships. For the full -background story on that, see this thread at The 2500 Page Forums - The Terran Empire, Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall....
Anyhow, I've got several new ships that are at the primer stage now and will go in to the queue to be painted. First batch is in the pics below. Identification of ships from the below pics follows. Click to view:
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Upper Left: Guenther-class dreadnought. I used a spare (at the time!) PNT Models Avenger hull mated to a modified PNT Models Indomitable secondary hull. I built up the connecting area w/sheet stock and putty to raise it up a bit, giving more clearance for the pylons. The upper nacelle and pylon assembly is a spare "second" from the VA Miniatures Jenghiz-class destroyer. I cut the nacelle from the "neck", reversed the neck after sanding it to fit the upper hull of the Avenger, then glued the nacelle in place. This one is to be named the U.S.S. Kristiansen, NCC-3601.
Middle Left is one of two ships I'm calling the Kumari-class Fast Destroyer (DF). I took the basic Stingray-class destroyer hull and added a warp nacelle/pylon assembly from a Furuta Constellation/Stargazer mini. I also added one of the VA Mini's weapons pods that comes w/the kit to give it a dual punch. My thinking is that this weapons pod allows for as many as four photon torpedoes to launch at once - sort of the predecessor to the photorp system that we see later in TNG whenever the E-D fires a "full salvo" or "spread" of photorps. I have made up two of these and this will be either Kumari, NCC-3100, or Zardoz, NCC-3110.
Bottom Left is the Andor-class Missile Cruiser! Love this thing! One of the fellas at The 2500 Page Forums 'bashed one out of a Refit kit, molded it, cast it and traded a few extra's and I got one. Want more! NEED more! The kit nacelles I got w/it were going to require more work to get them looking good than I was willing to put in to them, so I took the lazy-route and gave it a pair of VA Mini's "seconds" nacelles I had that need only minor touching up. I sanded down some of the scribed detailed panel lines so that it wasn't quite so prominent, puttied & sanded pinholes, some airbubbles and pour stub marks, then let it sit overnight for the putty to more fully cure. Sanded, primered and then assembled this morning.
Top Middle: Cyclone-class thru-deck cruiser by RogueWolf - eventually to be for sale from Millenia Models Int'l. He designed it to be more of a TNG/DS9 Era ship, but I think it works well as a Movie Era ship, too. I've not decided for sure what to name this, but have been thinking of giving it the name Fujita - the man who developed the "F-Scale", used for identifying the intensity of Tornadoes, Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita of the University of Chicago who developed the scale. No clue I'll give her for a registry, but I was thinking possibly late 2290's/very early 2300's so 1xxxx sounds like a winner to me.
Top Right: Refit Excelsior-class heavy cruiser. This one is actually going to be a Battleship from the Mirror Universe. The weapons pods on top of the saucer are similar to those on the Kumari-class above - capable of firing up to four photorps at one time, as well as has two sets of phaser emitters on it. This ship has been named I.S.S. Kodos, NCC-2244.
Bottom Right: Stingray-class cruiser from VA Miniatures. I'm calling it a Frigate, tho. This one is going to be the U.S.S. Duke, NCC-1999. I opted for the two nacelle, two weapons pod variation and will use that for all of them that I might build of this particular class. I want one or two more of these, too.
More to follow as the weekend progresses in to the week.