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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

I can't remember if I've ever posted these here before, but I found them in a drawer yesterday and they still looked un-hideous, so I scanned them, cleaned them up and viola! Bow low and behold, the Agrabah Class and the Elhanen Class!!!!
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/AgrabahClass.gif http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/ElhanenClass.gif

One is an orthographic view, the other is a 3/4 view. The orthographics aren't perfect, but as I was working from a pencil sketch on a piece of scrap paper, I think I did ok.

What do you think? I'll try and clean up the others later this week.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I think they are among the cleanest schematics I've ever seen! Not one dot or scratch at the wrong place. You could eat off them schematics!

The Agrabah is very minimalistic. Looks like a flying chipmunk! Sort of a union between Oberth and Defiant!

The Elhanen is interesting, almost excelsiory. What's in the weapons hub, at the nacelle-joints? Just phasers, or an aft torpie as well? Oh I'd like that...

All in all, very tidy! They would look perfect with some blood red n' yellow for the starfleet insignia + stripes and glowing blue for the deflector.

The excelsior deflector is IMO the nicest in the fleet, it's good the Sovereign class adapted that, the brown parts in the galaxy and intrepid deflectors looks like play-dough...

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Wow!

The Ehlen(?)-Class looks like an Excelsior with new nacelles and no neck or saucer.

I like the other ship a lot, too. The future shape of Starfleet ships to come -- no secondary and primary hull or neck or nacelles? Very nice!

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

Dude! Rock!

I like the Elhanen a lot - looks like it was built from lots of pre-existing parts and modules to save on cost. Very chic. Has it undegone a refit? Those look like Sovereign-style nacelles...

Mark

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

The first one reminds me of those smaller Son'a ships.

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

Thanks for the high praise gents. The Agrabah is slightly Son'a-ish, isn't it? These are somewhat old, so I can't remember if I drew it up before or after Insurrection came out... I think it was before, though.

The Elhanen was originally design so that I could use left over model parts to make a new ship, so the main body is actually an Excelsior secondary hull with some stuff added to the butt like a shuttle bay, flight operations lounge and aft torp launcher.

The weapons tower contains a dorsal phaser strip and an aft torp launcher.

I did the schematics by scanning the drawings and tracing them in Photoshop. I just did half, then flipped it.

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

The round curves of the Elhanen makes it look soft and squishy. It would be a good Pok�mon-ship!

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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

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