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  • Member since
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  • From: The House of Blues Clues
Posted by Griffworks on Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:22 PM

Nearly finished. Well, construction is pretty much finished except for some touch up.

I'm going to call this a part of Griffworks Shipyards for my little cornor of the Trek Multiverse. Well, it's one of the 13 Drydock facilities that are used by the Griffworks Shipyards Corporation in Earth orbit.

The thing on the back of the drydock is two of the pieces from the Large Death Star Tiles that are sold in the SM Store, cut at the halfway point, then glued back-to-back. That is the factory area where the components of the starships being built are fabricated. It saves a great deal of time and money by having the fabrication facilities right there at the drydock where initial construction, refurbishment or major refit takes place.

Anyhow, enjoy....


 

 

 

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Still needs another coat of primer, then painting. I also need to figure out how I'm going to display this. My initial thinking is to mount it to a plaque of some sort, but I've not yet decided. Need to do that soon, tho....

Anyhow, I've ordered a second of this kit and will make it a mobile drydock along the lines of that seen in the old FASA Star Trek RolePlaying Game and the Jackill's StarFleet Reference Series. Not sure what sort of nacelles to put on there just yet, but was leaning towards a pair from a 1/2500 scale Enterprise-B along w/substational superstructure on top.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Appreciate any input.

 

The greatest measure of a man is his children and what kind of people they are.

 

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  • From: The House of Blues Clues
Posted by Griffworks on Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:19 PM

I got one of these most excellent "Multiverse SpaceDocks" (available thru Starship Modeler) while in Chicago a couple of weekends ago for "LesterFest" (10th Anniversary celebration of Starship Modeler) and finally got around to working on it the last two nights. Here's a couple of teaser pics of what I've got done so far...

 


 


The white piece in some of the pics is a second from one of the previous years Resin Drop's at WonderFest. It's from the Roger Young kit. It's to be the "Command & Control section" of the drydock, have the offices and living quarters for a lot of the workers, as well as some conference rooms and the like. I plan to make further modifications, as well, such as a possible superstructure on top of the dock and some boarding stations on the inside sort of like what was on the TMP Drydock.


 

 

The greatest measure of a man is his children and what kind of people they are.

 

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  • From: The House of Blues Clues
1/2500 Scale Trek Modeling Goodness
Posted by Griffworks on Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:16 PM

OK, been a while since I've posted any new model stuff 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.


 


 



 


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 come.

 

The greatest measure of a man is his children and what kind of people they are.

 

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