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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Hey dudes, Here's some more pictures for you to salivate over, from a contributor who wishes to remain anonymous. However, they did give me a lengthy email summation about the models: "I’m a starship nut like you guys are! You all did a great job at Ex-Astris-Scientia with the Wolf 359 page. Very impressive work. So now let me tell you about my models for the Deep Space Nine season premiere. "There were a lot of Reliant, Excelsior, and movie Enterprise kits around, and those were what most people used to build their models. I wanted to be different. I was inspired by the Cheyenne class from the Trek trading cards, so I was originally going to build the same ship for my kitbash. There were a couple of the old 3-Enterprise kits and some of the larger kits with the removable saucer, so I was able to start building the design using the trading card picture as a reference. However, I didn’t have the highlighter pens for the engines or the struts, so I had to improvise with what I had, and I eventually ended up making a different ship. I didn’t really have any specific design in mind; I just made it up as I went along, and I eventually came up with a design I liked. I used some parts from the sub models used on the Ptolemy as sensor pallets like on Voyager, because that’s what they resembled. I used the large bridge, impulse engines and captain’s yacht, drew large windows, and cut out escape pods from sheet styrene to make the ship smaller like the Cheyenne. "I labeled the ship ‘Tolstoy’ as an in-joke. I thought it would be humorous if one of the ships from “Best of Both Worlds” survived only to end up getting destroyed a second time in DS9. The only ships that were mentioned in the episode were the Tolstoy, Kyushu and Melbourne. Since the Melbourne was destroyed in Emissary, and we already knew what the Kyushu looked like thanks to the pics in the Encyclopedia, I chose the Tolstoy (and ironically, thanks to the Ex-Astris-Scientia site, I found out later that there was no original Tolstoy in the episode :) ). But no one would have been able to see the ship’s name anyway. "The second ship was inspired by the old Starfleet Technical Manual from TOS. Basically it’s a Galaxy-style Ptolemy transport. I combined another Enterprise kit with some submarine kits lying around. At first the model was going to have the same configuration as the Ptolemy, but I found that I liked the upside-down orientation better. The engine pylons are the subs’ control towers, and the sub hull is the transport container. I was originally going to glue the stand-alone container you see in the pics to the saucer, but because I had an extra sub with an extra tower, I glued a third warp engine to it, and then glued that sub to the saucer instead. Consider it something like a starliner like in the old manual, that can detach itself from the main ship and fly on its own power if necessary. "Alas, unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish the models in time for the shot. In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have taken all the time I did in being meticulous in my designs and painting and labeling the models, since they were only going to be shown in the far background. Or maybe I should have just built one ship instead of two. Most of the models were literally slapped together and painted quickly (or not at all) because there wasn’t a whole lot of time, and even though a bunch of people built kitbashes, I think only one or two of them ever made it to the screen. I was hoping that they might be shown in a later episode, but by the end of the series they were pretty much using only CG models, even for damaged ships." http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/PtolemyTolstoy01.jpg http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/PtolemyTolstoy02.jpg http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/PtolemyTolstoy03.jpg http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/341/PtolemyTolstoy04.jpg I have a few more pics of the models, which I'll post later today, but I thought at least these will get some good discussion flowing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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