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TNG era Carrier
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 9, 2003 7:24 PM
For anybody interested, here's a progress pic of the "kitbash" I'm working on:

http://rongeorge.com/albums/uploadhere/carrierprogress.jpg

It's based on the Galaxy saucer and a design I've had in my brain for a while. While trying to find a "shape" to use for the secondary hull I found that I liked a Hasbro Naboo Starfighter in storage. I cut off everything. The picture depicts a saucer that was temp. taped to this. I'm actually farther along, with the two connected, the deflector "morphed" into the bottom of the sec. hull and the top aft filled in. Next is impulse engines, phaser strips/photorps, and finally warp engines. Actually kind of a fun project.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 9, 2003 8:14 PM
Interesting, Keep us posted with more pics as the build comes along.
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Posted by Woody on Sunday, November 9, 2003 8:56 PM
Very neat idea! I hope you will be posting progress pictures. I'm really interested to see how your carrier turns out.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 10, 2003 8:20 AM
I'm not getting anything, is there a problem with the web site, the URL, or me?
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Posted by therriman on Monday, November 10, 2003 12:28 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Gojulas

I'm not getting anything, is there a problem with the web site, the URL, or me?



Let's try this:
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 10, 2003 2:48 PM
The site is temporarily down see: http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?page=7&TOPIC_ID=2331
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 10, 2003 6:44 PM
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'l certainly post more pics as soon as I can. Forgot to mention the scale was 1/2500th. My biggest problem now is the warp engines. The kit engines seem kinda wimpy on this sucker, but 1400th scale ones would be way too big.
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Posted by Woody on Monday, November 10, 2003 11:01 PM
How about three engines like a dreadnought?

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:26 PM
I considered that, but thought two engines that were slightly larger would look better. A suggestion was made to me yesterday to use Runabout engines, but I have none to even try out. I'v e also ordered an Odin class TNG cruiser from Ravenstar Studios maybe those will work. I consider elongating the existing ones, but I'm just too lazy.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Woody on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:28 PM
I'm sure you'll figure it out. Keep the pictures coming. I just took an interest in Star Trek kits but I'm going with 1/1000 scale. I'm getting inspired by all you guys that bash these trek kits!

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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:44 PM
I can't find the pics. Where are they on the site?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:40 PM
The site is having problems, Ron said he'd have it fixed in a few days. Woody, Thomas Models is supposed to have conversion kits for the Polar Lights Enterprise so you can build the Destroyer, Tug, etc.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:01 PM
Just went to the revised site. Let's try this:

http://rongeorge.com/albums/scifi/carrierprogress.jpg

On a side note ron used my Viper pic as the "front page" for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy album. Cool!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:05 PM
This is similar to something me and another forum member were discusing. I really like the idea and will probly do something similar. Keep us posted.
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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Friday, November 14, 2003 10:40 PM
MY GOD THAT'S A BIG SHIP![:0]
I mean taking into account it's scale and all. How many shuttles do you guys estimate it carries. The "D" was a pretty big ship herself.
"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by Woody on Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:45 AM
MartianGundamModeler my guess would be a whole bunch!Tongue [:P] Does it carry shuttles or fighters?

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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:25 AM
You could have two or three versions or it could be a multi role vessel. You could evacuate entire colonies with a ship that big. It could be used for disaster relief with hospital shuttles and and engeneering teams. A big flying Red Cross. Then you could have a full military version. One could also be used as a colony ship to transport colonists and supplies...The possibilities are endless![:0]
"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 15, 2003 7:08 PM
I guess I envision several types of craft stored in her belly, from shuttles to fighters to larger, multi-role types. Yes, it turns out to be large(haven't computed the scale length yet) and that's why I thought slightly larger warp engines were in order. I decided a while back to name it the Valley Forge, for one of my favorite sci-fi ships.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 15, 2003 7:38 PM
Well I just measured her, she's 14" long. If my scale converter program is working right, in 1/2500th scale, she's 889 meters long!!! Can somebody verify that?
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 2:56 PM
That is one big vessel! I would really like to see how that model would translate to the screen in either an episode or feature movie. It could almost be a "floating" drydock for smaller classes of Star Trek starships, i.e. Reliant, Enterprise (NX-01), etc. Great job so far!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 7:10 PM
Thanks Poly. I did some more puttying today and made some phaser strips. I can't seem to figure out where to place photon launchers/firing arcs. Any suggestions? Keep in mind the saucer seperates.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 29, 2003 8:14 PM
Just another update pic: http://rongeorge.com/albums/upload/carrierprogress2.sized.jpg

I used a plastic bender to make the nacelle struts. It took some time to make the port side strut exactly the same as the starboard side. I incorporated tabs on the top of these to mount the engines to. The warp engines are from Ravenstar Studios Odin class cruiser. I drilled/cut out slots in the underside of them to accept the tabs. They're temped on for the pic, and untill more is done. Sorry for the quality of the picture.
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Posted by Woody on Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:50 PM
Cool! It's really starting to come together. You were right the two warp nacelles do look right. Wink [;)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 30, 2003 9:12 AM
Thanks Woody. The nacelles were the perfect size. Kudos to Chris Lynch for offering to make me two new ones, gratis!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 1:30 PM
Very, very nice. How much more work before the kit is primered?
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 6:40 PM
Thanks. I have some more puttying to do at the tail end, then start adding detailing and the impulse engines. Its rather slow going as I have to work between the family and work, and am forced to have a "mobile" work station at the kitchen table. After its primered come the hard part for me........painting. I have a set of Dave Tomita's "D" decals, but obviously it won't cover all of this behmoth.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 8, 2003 2:28 PM
Since you are crossing STNG with SW, why not give it "X wing" Nacelles. In other words, you would have 4 nacelles sprouting off in 4 directions.

I found a site that gives some pictures of what you are doing perhaps one of them can give you more ideas:
http://www.shipschematics.net/cgi-bin/startrek/federation.cgi?Carrier

I think the Akira class starship was built like a carrier. It had more than your average number of shuttle bays.

Another idea, instead of attaching the two as you have, what about building it like a huge Oberth class ship, where the cargo portion is slung under the saucer
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 7:08 PM
All are interesting variations. This particular design has been in my head, and on paper for years. I finally decided to build it in 2500th scale for a smaller display size, and the shape of the Naboo worked out great. 4 nacellse were a possiblity, but the Ravenstar nacelles were big enough for just 2. I did see the page you linked before I built, but wasn't impressed with most of them. I do like the old Star Fleet Battles carrier, and had the mini out during construction as sort of a reference. Thanks again for the interest and the suggestions. I'll post some more pics in a while.
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Posted by Woody on Sunday, December 21, 2003 3:48 AM
Steven how's the carrier coming along? I'm very much looking forward to the next picture(s). The mini you mentioned, what scale and where did you get it?

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:42 PM
Woody, the carrier is coming along slowly of late due to family, work, etc. I just have some puttying to finish up and then I can put the first coat of primer on. At that point I will take some more detailed pics of her.
The scale of the SFB mini eludes me (anyone?). I've had it since it came out in the 80's, along with many other SFB and FASA minis. Many of these designs I'd love to scratchbuild, such as Kzinti, Hydran, etc. My Lyran cruiser(3 ft' long) is on Ron's site.
Thanks for the interest, Woody. Stay tuned Smile [:)]
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