There's one possible inaccuracy I can see if you're basing the Constellation on the AMT kits: I beleive the early AMT kits had an oversized deflector dish, Also, there should be no hemispheres on the aft ends of the nacelles.
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I'd make the original class of the constillation a bit more like the Constitution, as it is, little of it would be left by the time it was refit. I might try my hand at my own concept later.
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What's with the red star on the Republic? You sayin' it's the People's Republic, you commie!?!
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The star represents the United Federation of Planets early during its formation. You will also see the star in the uniform insignia for command division.
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quote:Originally posted by Harry: The 'red star' is based on Masao's early 23rd century Starfleet liveries.
Yeah, but I'm a commie!
BTW, Harry, I like your take on Republic/Horizon. Is it the same scale as the other ships? If so, it's pretty big. The neck looks nice and sturdy (is that circular in cross-section or is it stretched vertically?). You can probably guess how I feel about those NX-01-style bussard retainers, though! I'd probably back date the deflector mount a bit (particularly the side bars look too much like Constitution). The deflector dish on the rear looks pretty tiny: is it small to leave room for a aft shuttlebay perhaps?
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The Horizon has a drop-bay, and presumably a shuttlebay or other empty space right where the future Constellation shuttlebay would be.
I stole the nacelles from some early TOS ship I designed aeons ago, so I don't know if they really were based on the NX. The crossection of the neck is a rounded rectangle, not a circle.
Yeah, she's pretty big for a pre-TOS ship, but how else is it going to be a believable test-bed for Constitution technology? I even had to scale the sphere down dramatically from the original Horizon schematics to fit the rather larger secondary hull.
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Wow, Harry, that's pretty awesome. Any chance of dorsal/ventral/fore/aft views? (Maybe I will write that article for EAS after all!)
There's a really cool site that details the changes the AMT Connie kit went through over the years. When you look through the article, keep in mind that the Constellation was the old "long box" version. http://www.culttvman.com/jay_chladek_s_enterprise_kit_h.html
I also have a nice large reference pic, basically a bigger version of the one on the first page of that article, that I'll try to dig up and post for you if you want to "correct" the NCC-1017 a bit.
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Ah, here it is. (I have also confirmed that the nacelles taper from 25mm at the front to 23mm at the rear. I'll leave it to you to figure out whether this is an equivalent taper to that on the studio model, but I suspect it is shallower.) Also, here are cleaned-up scans of all the exterior views of FJ's NCC-1700.
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Thanks. I'll probably (possibly) do at least 3-views of the variants. I usually don't bother with ventral and aft views, as they are usually the least interesting bits.
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