USS Coronado Class Thru-Deck Cruiser
USS Coronado Class Thru-Deck Cruiser
350 Series Medical Pod
350 Series Produce and Goods Pod
Okay, I've been a big (though silent) fan of all the work TFV. But....the deflector right in front of the forward bay doors? Seems like revision time to me.Originally Posted by TFVanguard
- Daniel "A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
Maybe not revision, but seems a little awkward...Originally Posted by Sho-sa Kurita
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USS Centaur Class Frigate
Wow, one of DS9's more popular wreck-bashes ,but a flawed one. In the original, the swiped-Miranda torpedo bay would , well, smash through the hull of the saucer. I cleaned up those lines, replaced the Excelsior-class engines and ditched the messed up shuttlebay placement.
Remember, the Centaur was one of those ships not meant to stand up to close scrutiny.
nice revision to the Frankenship. That looks a lot better
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Building a Centaur class ship from both Excelsior class and Miranda class parts isn't possible, since, although the components look like they come from those classes, they have a different scale. (The models they used to create the original Centaur came from different companies and used different scales.)Originally Posted by TFVanguard
So what size do you use. Did you start with an Excelsior class (and size) saucer, or did you use the Miranda parts as a guide for determining the Centaur's dimensions?
A good article on this ship can be found here:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/ar...tm.htm#centaur
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Since the saucer and engines were both based on the Excelsior, I went with that for the scaling, and set about redoing the roll-bar and torpedo bay accordingly. I haven't remeasured the ship yet, to post stats on it, but that's something I probably should do in the near future.Originally Posted by Ergi
Ditto from me. That looks nice.Originally Posted by BouncyCaitian
Alex
350 Series Pods, Bulk and Liquids
Nothing really special, and added more for completeness sakes.
Last edited by TFVanguard; 03-29-2006 at 06:59 PM.
Glad everyone liked it. I'm always a little nervous revising a 'canon' ship, even if it is a DS9 wreck-bash, since everyone has certain expectations as to what's shown on screen - even if it doesn't make much sense.Originally Posted by Captain Blake
USS Vigilant Class Surveyor
Another one of the DS9 Kitbashes, and it would take a lot to save this ship. As it is, I do consider this a vast improvement on the dog we were given, but there's only so much you can dress up a turd.
Thankfully, the ship is never shown 'intact' on screen, and was made really to be destroyed by the Borg. My changes were to clean up some lines, replace the 'fat' saucer with the regular Enterprise-B saucer, and give her a name and registry for the period.
I quite like the Centaur actually.. While the adition of the Miranda torpeo launcher as a secondary hull is sill, if you overlook it it looks quite nice.. Good lines and just a little different!
Ta Muchly
Alberto Sabella Class Tug
Wow, talk about obscure...
Anyway, the main problem with this ship was that it was miscaled, being way too small to be possible (average required deck height would be less than a meter), as well as had the lines of a TNG ship while supposedly being in the TOS era.
I basically made the impulse and warp drives more clear, added the 'standard' saucer dish and bridge dome, and left most the rest alone.
Nice Centaur, but I have to ask, what happened to the shuttle bay on the front top of the saucer? For me that was always her most interesting feature.