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I was digging through the old post archives a month or so ago and came across a few threads pertaining to this odd and contraversial design. Lots of people hate it, so you just know I had to build my own version.
My version is kinda refit on the Curry (as it uses refit parts): USS Helios Side view
Flyby Front I took some needed design liberties here- chiefly was modding the oversized nacelles a bit. The nacelles are not as disproportionate as the studio model's are and I've tweaked the bussard collector to be a bit more "TNG" looking. TO give the saucer a bit more clearance, I used two "necks" stacked on each other. I also moved the forward hangar opening even farther forward to give the secondary hull a "Goblin Shark" look that I find appealing, and replaced the standard two aft torpedo tubes with three of my own design (it lacked coverage back there, IMHO).
So, is it a carrier of shuttles? Fighters? A class all it's own or a part of a group of Excelsior variants?
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I think that "Shely" is he unofficial class name. USS Curry was the actual name on the studio model.
The detaching secondary hull might indeed work as a mobile command center. Possibly also as an orbital defense thing, with fighters/shuttles useing it as a base of operations while maintaining patrol.
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Shelley-class was a name someone (Here?) came up with, to describe this class, because of it's freaky Frankensteinish construction. Years later someone (Sternbach or Ukda, that kind of someone) revealed that the name on the model was USS Curry, named for one of their FX people.
Damn, talk about stating the obvious. I think I'm turning into Colin in my old age.
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I concur. All I have, claim-to-fame-wise, is being the first one "here" (we're talking roughly 1998 here, when this was just the Behaviour Group webboard) to suggest using $ to denote spoilers - something that's become so universal, I can't believe I was the first ever to think of it. And I was the first one to identify a ship-registry in "TotP" as that of the USS Galaxy (but I told Adam via ICQ, and he immediately went public saying "Guess what I just found!").
So, really, I'm relying on the Iceland-class for posterity! 8)
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I really like the Shelley Class. I remember seeing it on screen when the show aired and being all excited about seeig a new ship class. I was taping all the episodes, so I, of course, rewound the tape after the show and studied the fly-by frame by frame.
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Okay, but what do you guys think of my version? It's a bit diffrent, ya know.
Leave it to fellow Flarites to stray so far afield immeadeately
What's the practical uses for this ship? Sol's idea was pretty good....
Really, this all stems from a challenge by fellow modelers to make the "Lost Era" ships that must have been developed in the span between STVI and TNG. Anyone got any other "Lost Era" designs I can see? It's odd that so few seem to exist...
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I dont mind the saucer impulse engines from the Ent. B saucer, but I don't like the use of the Ent B secondary hull in this design. Just doesn't work for me.
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I like the Helios the most- I'm astounded by your modeling know-how, the photos are kinda blurry though, It's difficult to see how the saucer and secondary hull are connected.
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Aploogies for the super-crappy photos, guys. My best friend (and professiomal photographer) moved last year and all I have is the freebie digital camera that work gave everybody.
Hmmm....once I get my new Razor phone, things should improve.
The saucer and secondary hull are connected via two Excelsior "neck" pieces stacked one on the other (for twice the height). The connection is made just fore of the aft shuttlebay's cowling (that crescent-shaped part).
Really, the Helios is very nicely done (one of my best builds to date at least) and once I can, I'll snap more pics.
BTW, both ships are in 1:2500th scale (as are all my models) so the Helios is only 4.75" long. The challenge is in the details.
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