quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: The LUG RPG supplement Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 1: The Ships of Starfleet calls the 3-naceller the Chimera-class. That's non-canon, of course...but far closer to it (ie, officially licensed) than "Medusa."
Except for the tiny detail that there's already an established Chimera-class starship with a registry in the NCC-57xxx range... which makes that class far older than the Dominion War.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I accept the DS9 kitbashes (Centaur excepted) as deliberate and fully realized starship classes. With such graceful and meticulous designs such as the Constitution, the Excelsior, the Galaxy, the Intrepid (choose from among these as you wish), I find it hard to believe that Starfleet would stoop to build such a clunky, ugly beast in a time of non-emergency.
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Maybe they built them as part of a strikeforce during the cardassian war.
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Hahahahahahaha....
Mark, you silly bitch...how I adore you. I built that model of the Phobos for the Dominion War Contest back in 1999. I used the 1/1400-scale (well, actually 1/1375) 3-piece VGR kit. I rather liked the way that the hulls mated & the smaller raider size lent the ship a better overall size/form in my eyes. It was an inCREDibly easy bash as well.
I just built another one about 2 months ago to give to my girlfriend; that one had custom decals, but no picture of it. Yet.
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quote:WOW Bernd... what program did you use to make the Centaur schem? How do you whip them up so fast!?!
Love the Centaur, but you forgot the windows in the saucer.
It's basically a re-arrangement of scanned Miranda and Centaur components. I put them together in Micrografx Picture publisher where one may operate with objects (which would be called layers in Photoshop), and I added the copper bits that I quickly sketched up myself.
BTW, the newest version has some detail corrections. I still didn't include the green saucer windows, because I think their spacing is too dense. It seems they are spread at random over possible quarters, corridors and other rooms.
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There was a suggestion earlier that maybe the Elkins is just a disembodied (disenshipped?) saucer being towed by a tug (made of an F-14 and some nacelles). I liked this idea, and started to draw a diagram of the tug by itself. Unfortunately, just as I finished the top view, I noticed something: the Elkins' registry is also on the nacelles. So the tug theory doesn't work. Too bad...
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Well, I've corrected my diagram of the Curry (top and side) and I have most of a side view of the Medusa. I haven't done whatever forms the back end of the Medusa since we still dont' know what it is.
Once I have a place to upload the diagrams, I'll show them off.
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quote:Well, I believe that the "Chimera" is actually drawn correctly in the DS9TM, merely because you can see where the mounting points are for motion control, as well as the electrical wires (did these things actually light up?), and those usually go on the bottom of a model. It could be just like the Stargazer, where the top and bottom are nearly identical except the bridge dome is replaced by a sensor dome.
This means nothing... models can be mounted upside down... I know the Danube/Runabout was as was DS9.
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Now that I'm seen the pics some thoughts, Elkins- This ship looks like some type of science vessal or possibly a transport or hospital ship. Of course the pod below it could have a totally different use. Excelsior combo- Makes me wonder if a twin galaxy saucer ship built, sort of remides me of the stargazer. Yeager- Does this mean that there may be a even bigger version of the maquis raider, possible the difference between swoop and corvette. Raging Queen- I still think this is some type of carrier. By the way do we know if there are any ships that were built for DS9 or TNG that our lying around, especially from Embissary or the other battle scenes?
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I see you choose the 'easy way' by drawing the saucer/sec hull connection behind the phylon. But I'd really like to know what that is that connects them. From the pictures you can only guess it's some sort of triangular thing, similar to the thing Drexler has drawn in his diagram. Could it be a part of the F-14-kit? Maybe the front end openings of the engine shafts? Or a part of the Danube cockpit?
(Hey, who's the lucky bastard who writes the 300th-anniversary-post? )
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