patrickivan
Sr Member
I've been working on this on and off for about 5 years now. I think I took the wrong approach in building it, but I'm committed now.
Sure, I should just use my 3d printer and whip up the section Ive been building, but im too stubborn.
My issue is that I can't get the shapes to smooth out. I fill and sand and fill and sand, and just keep getting streaks and chunks.
Anyway, here's some of it. It's my design. No influence other than a Miranda Class lineage in design.
The aft section is styrene, balsa, plastic and wood filler, and primer to see what needs to be filled in.
Clearly I wanted the organic style of the Galaxy Class that we don't have many ship designs of.
The point of this ship has always been (well before Lower Decks came out) for it to be a post new world discovery long duration exploration vessel. Not really for intellegent post first contact inhabited worlds. That's a different mission parameter.
This is for cataloging indeginous flora and fauna. Assessing the world for potential colonization or use as a Starbase, or to be left to develope without influence.
It has an array of larger shuttles with large shuttle bays aft of the bridge. Large industrial transporters and replicator. A large array of sensor platforms and supporting scientific research labs.The warp core power allocation is therefore primarily routed to support these systems and therefore it's not meant to be as fast or powerful as a Galaxy Class. But that's not an issue. Wars and conflicts are few and far between and in the vastness of space, the reality is that most of Starfleet never sees major aggression that they can't handle.
I don't know how I'll get decals. The US shipping to Canada is insane.
Sure, I should just use my 3d printer and whip up the section Ive been building, but im too stubborn.
My issue is that I can't get the shapes to smooth out. I fill and sand and fill and sand, and just keep getting streaks and chunks.
Anyway, here's some of it. It's my design. No influence other than a Miranda Class lineage in design.
The aft section is styrene, balsa, plastic and wood filler, and primer to see what needs to be filled in.
Clearly I wanted the organic style of the Galaxy Class that we don't have many ship designs of.
The point of this ship has always been (well before Lower Decks came out) for it to be a post new world discovery long duration exploration vessel. Not really for intellegent post first contact inhabited worlds. That's a different mission parameter.
This is for cataloging indeginous flora and fauna. Assessing the world for potential colonization or use as a Starbase, or to be left to develope without influence.
It has an array of larger shuttles with large shuttle bays aft of the bridge. Large industrial transporters and replicator. A large array of sensor platforms and supporting scientific research labs.The warp core power allocation is therefore primarily routed to support these systems and therefore it's not meant to be as fast or powerful as a Galaxy Class. But that's not an issue. Wars and conflicts are few and far between and in the vastness of space, the reality is that most of Starfleet never sees major aggression that they can't handle.
I don't know how I'll get decals. The US shipping to Canada is insane.
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