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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] I may have misunderstood. Who here has [i]not[/i] seen the large photos yet? Regarding the Elkins (or whatever): That is so blatantly an F-14, it's silly. I can't belive you can't all see it. It is a complete fuselage, minus nose. No wings, no elevons, no vertical stabilizers. In the top view, just fore of the pylons, you can see the cut-ins for the swing-wings. The long rectangular pieces on top of the intakes are two of the launch rails for the Phoenix missiles. And the exhausts (or navigational deflectors, in this case) are unmistakable. I know it's easy to mistake for an A-Wing. That's because the A-Wing was orignally made from two F-14 fuselage tops, cut off just aft of the wing roots, and with the central part of the fuselage removed just inboard of the intake scoops. Plus, of course, a new cockpit and other details... But that is a complete F-14 fuselage on the Elkins. Regarding the Centaur: I've been slowly building a Centaur-type ship model out of an Enterprise-B and a Reliant, plus the conversion kit. These pictures are very helpful. I've mapped out the windows -- with some modifications to make the layout a bit more symmetrical -- and am in the process of drilling them out. Now that we can see the Reliant bridge is used on this model, I'm making appropriate modifications. As far as the Excelsior shuttlebay... Well, when I glued it in place I noticed three things: First, the trailing tips must be pinched in to make them lie alongside the superstructure; Second, pinching them in causes the other end to curve down in an arc that exactly matches the curve of the saucer top; Third, when I looked at it from the front, it practically screamed deflector -- not shuttlebay. So I now have every intention of painting the former shuttlebay doors fluorescent blue. The p/s aft flanking boxes will be the shuttlebays as I originally intended -- and as I still believe the boxes on the E-B are. But that's a can of worms I'm not opening. Regarding the others: I'm still ambivalent about the Shelly. I'm also beginning to like the three-nacelled Excelsior bash (BTW, the gold bits previously mentioned are the saucer rim of the stock Excelsior saucer painted copper, opposing the grey-painted saucer rim of the Enterprise-B). The Yeager is troubling to me. I like the variable-geometry nacelle pylons, but the mating of those two ships makes my teeth itch... The Constitution variant is nice also, but the paint job is ass, like all of them. :rolleyes: --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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