She's kinda a radical departure (for me at least!) so post in with your comments! My photographer already hates her!
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I love the old Chandley! It looks like a frog leaping and could never fit through the Spacedock doors, but man did it kick ass!
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Wonky. But neet nonetheless.
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Its truly a terrible photo of the Blackheart though (sigh). I'll snap some decent pics of those two ships next time...
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Nice job, Jason, as always. Only thing I kinda don't like about it is that the main hull is too flat for a TNG/DS9/VOY Era ship. I like how you split the "pod" in two.
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Thanks. I split the pod for more coverage than a standard Nebula pod would give and added phaser strips (like on the Merrimac) to the pod's sides. You would'nt recognize it but the saucer is built from an Ambassador: I took off the outermost three "rings" of the saucer prior to cutting the wedges from the rear of it. I also added many more round windows on the saucer's rim than the Ambassador's own vertical ones and built the B-C decks before attaching the modified Galaxy class bridge and shuttlebay. She's a weird ship, but I'm happy with her and I really needed more mid-range sized ships (frigates)in the fleet for balance. Once Ravenstar releases his New Orleans later this year, I'll have lots more frigates to go around....
Waiting sucks.
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Nice work. I, too, love the original Chandley, but your take is a nice interpretation. Word(s) of criticism? Thomas Paine and Hokkaido. I hope I have my models finished before too much longer so I can slap pics of 'em up online and have everyone tell me what I did wrong.
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Ug. I'm planning on Re-Painting/ re-decaling the TM anyway.....
The Hokido is the lousy internet's fault! I looked it up on a travel site and everything! screw it: it's still a martial art by that spelling.
What scale are your models in?
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Thanks! Coming from you that means a lot! I use your site as refrence on everything and could'ny have done the DS9 kitbashes without it.
Phoenix: I'd start by asking yourself what ships you want to build, what kind of time you want to put into a model and weither or not your want to display several ships. 2500th (my scale) is excellent for people with limited space and who like small detail work and don't like spending weeks or months just to build a "stock" Enterprise. Lots of ships are being made in 2500th this year and it's catching up to 1400th. 1400th currently has the most selection for ships (thanks mostly to Starcrafts models)and the kits have tons of excellent detail but cost usually upwards of $50-70 each for the larger ships.
If you're just starting to model and want an bueatiful ship with minimal work there is the new offerings from Bandai: A 850th Connie Refit and a 1700th Enterprise E. The Connie refit is available now for about $70-100 and comes pre-painted with lights. The "E" comes out later this year but nobody knows if it's lit for sure (I'd imagine so). http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/jr_enta.htm http://www.rakuten.co.jp/be-j/img1041490352.jpeg The only down side to these kits is that nothing else is in scale with them.
As Griffworks can attest, these is also 537th scale: The scale of the Ertl Connie Refit and Reliant kits and about a zillion aftermarket and accurizing parts and conversion kits for these. 537th is great if you want to super-detail your ship and see every darn marking and, as in Woozle's case, even make the interior! Check here for some great examples: http://hometown.aol.com/Griffworks/shipyards.html
If you decide to go with 1400th scale, I reccomend the Nova class: all one piece and all you need to do is wash it, paint it and decal it.
Pm me if you need anything or any tips on where to buy cheap kits.
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I'd like (eventually of course) to have a large range of ships, and having looked at some of the models for sale it seems that most are 1:1400, so I think I'll go for that, and try the Nova.
Hopefully I can try bigger and bigger ships as I get better.
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