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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ChristopherT: [QB] I'm working on a 3d model of the USS Horizon and USS Archon class starships. I'm using a scan I was sent of two pages out of what I think is the "Heavy Cruiser Evolution" plans. This version of the Horizon has a sensor dish on the aft part of the secondary hull. Given that these classes were supposed to be the immediate predecessors to the Constitution Class, where would a suitable location for the hangarbay be? In the forward part of the secondary hull or somewhere in the primary hull? Another oddity I noticed was the idea that the USS Horizon class ships were supposed to be the first class of vessels to mount the PB-18 warp nacelles. These nacelles are supposed to be 160 meters long on a vessel that's supposed to be 200 meters long. I realized that the source of this data may have been early data given out to prospective authors by the production crew prior to the filming of "The Cage". At that time, the Enterprise herself was supposed to be a 200 meter ship, with a crew of 203. After "The Cage", Gene decided to double the size of the ship and double it's crew. I'm not sure if this happened before the filming of "Where no man has gone before" or after, I suspect before. Either way, we now have a ship that's twice the size of the class that was apparently refit to Constitution specs, because there wasn't time for the publishers of the fan based material to go back and change thier works. My solution has been to toss out the 180 meters and make the USS Horizon much larger. I've scaled the model to my USS Enterprise so that the PB-18's on the Horizon are about equal to the length of the PB-47s. Thanks! Christopher [/QB][/QUOTE]
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