This took forever for me to actually get off my butt and complete! It's huge, ungainly and powerful- a nice compliment to the smaller, faster Vor'Cha battlecruiser.
Here's the original 1400th scale model I started with.
There's a LOT of mods to the basic L'ntch kit: the obvious additions are new nacelles, a new bridge and rebuilt side hull panels (to cover the giant "vents" on the kit and to bulk up the ship a bit). It's also got about a dozen greebles, a new lower deflector (like the VorCha) and some parts chopped off some Transformers Beast Wars toys that I bought cheap at a comic store.
Pardon the crappy pics- it's time for a better digital camera.
Opinions?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Nice!
You've put a paint bottle under the model - now I can visualise the size of your models. Quite small - ever done a 1/2500th of a Runabout! Or how about the Chaffe? Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Actually, I have several Runabouts and this crazy bastich made a Chaffe leaving his defiant class USS Wolf.
The klingon battleship I just completed is about 10" long. The Defiant in this scale (linked) is about 2.8" long. Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
(sigh)
Whenever i see something like this, it only reminds me of how lazy i am....
Stunning model!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Thanks- I was pretty lazy with this model myself. I sort of lost my muse for modeling for a few months and all that was needed to complete this ship was the addition of the nacelles.
I put off completing it because it seemed a hassle, but once I started painting the nacelles, it only took a couple of hours to finish and I'm happy with the model.
I've got about a hundred other pics of various ships at that site if you're intrested (yes, I'm an attention whore, I admit it).
Posted by David Sands (Member # 132) on :
Glad you found your muse again, Jason. It looks great!
Posted by Ravenstar Studios (Member # 1120) on :
Nicely done Jason , I really like your take on the model. It's funny we are re-tooling the model and lots of Jasons changes are close to what changes have been made on the masters.. i really like people like Jason who take a model and make it thier own. well done. chris
Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
I notice one of the ships looks like a model i saw in a trek game i really liked... the name of the ship escapes me, but it was my favourite Klingon class in the game. Its sort of a beefed up D7. Really cool.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Hmmm...I'd like to see it if you can dig up a link.
I have a bunch of parts just waiting good ideas.
Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
You've got it labelled "D 10 battlecruiser" and I think the game was Armada 2. Can't be more specific, sorry.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The D-10 is an old FASA design that I added some TMP panels to as an update. Armada II has a a lot of nice designs though.
Odd you should mention that: my CD was destroyed while moving apartments nad I'm bidding on a new copy of the game as we speak.
I used to play online against a friend in Tampa every week- I just loved decloaking my klingon fleet and wiping out his starbase. Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
I was always too mesmerised with the models to be any good at it...
Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
Ship models, that is.... ahem....
Posted by Griffworks (Member # 1014) on :
Whatever happened to your Klingon ship that utilized the Furuta base for the secondary hull, Jason? I know it was sent of to be kitted, but what's the status on that one...?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Jason - weren't you going to do one of my OX-class ships? You know - the meld between the NX and the Daedelus?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Griff- Odyssey Slipways has that one and it's up to him when to kit it- after the Defiant is well under way for certain.
Andrew, I'd forgotten about the "OX", it's back on my loooong "to build" list now though.
Posted by Griffworks (Member # 1014) on :
And Chris has had that Klingon cruiser for how many months now...? Does he think it needs that much work or something? Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
OX class eh? (is that like NX, or the big furry bull thing?) How piquant. Any pics?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Run a search (at the top of the main forum screen) and you'll find it.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Thanks Jason. The only one I could find (all the others are dead links) was this:
Not the best pic by any stretch- the sketches were more detailed. It's kinda a Deadalus sphere with the NX-01's catamaran style hull extentions and nacelle pylons.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hangon - I've never gotten around to doing a final version but...
OX Class. Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Nice. My only comment is about the exact use of the NX nacelles (although if it's a prototype, they could be for testing the spaceframe. A later refit would have a newer looking warp drive).
I'd love to see the model Posted by Griffworks (Member # 1014) on :
Shows promise, Anderw. I don't guess you have any other views? Would love to see how it looks from the top and front, as well as the other two views.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I'll look around and see if I can find the images I saved from back them of the OX.
If nothing else, it's great inspiration to work from.
I should have a few new models to show this week- Klingons mainly.
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