Ever see a ship and say "WTF...."

[F. King Daniel]

The mismatched/wrongly scaled components in the various kitbashes are kind of interesting. Triple size Constitution-refit nacelles attached to Excelsior components (to say nothing of an Excelsior where the saucer is mounted at the rear!), an oversized Constitution-style bridge dome on the Centaur (which I guess would be a 3 deck STXI-style module), and whatnot. Then again, TNG's Wolf 359 kitbashes simply scaled down Galaxy-class components by drawing on bigger windows and the TOS and TNG shuttlecraft featured far smaller yet similar nacelles to their respective motherships. I guess a warp nacelle (or whatever component) of the same type works just as well at 10 meters long as 100 and 300.

 

[Timo]

Triple size Constitution-refit nacelles attached to Excelsior components

More like double size. Or then the Excelsior bits are half-size, as they don't have scale-establishing features such as windows. Indeed, the saucers either lack bridge modules altogether, or then have Constitution/Miranda modules that are in scale with the engines.

an oversized Constitution-style bridge dome on the Centaur

Again, it's likely that the saucer is simply smaller, and the bridge and the torpedo deck establish the true scale of the ship. The new, painted-on windows on the saucer suggest this smaller scale as well.

TNG's Wolf 359 kitbashes simply scaled down Galaxy-class components by drawing on bigger windows

...And by glueing on bigger bridges, as the ships were bashed from two commercial kits that represented two different scales.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Neoshade]

hopefully new startrek will be all CGI and the models will be consistant. if they introduce models, i hope they dont kit bash.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The new, painted-on windows on the saucer suggest this smaller scale as well

Funny, I'd say the opposite. If each row of windows represented a deck, it's large, steeply angled floor-to-cieling windows on every level of a large saucer. The shuttlebay in front of the bridge would also be quite useless at a smaller size, IMO.

 

[Neoshade]

just saw my first kitbash. a yeagar class. it didn't look too bad. it looked like a intrepid class with small nacelles and a short rear end. it looked alot worse in UU2.0 for Startrek: Legacy

is the Achilles class real?

 

[F. King Daniel]

None of the DS9 kitbashes has classnames (not all the ship models were named, either), so any classname would have been an invention of the modders. There are pics of all the kitbashes somewhere on www.ex-astris-scientia.org.

 

[Timo]

If each row of windows represented a deck, it's large, steeply angled floor-to-cieling windows on every level of a large saucer.

But as the windows are nearly horizontal, it probably makes more sense to interpret them as skylights, with more than one row per deck. The Galaxy apparently has windows like that, too.

The shuttlebay in front of the bridge would also be quite useless at a smaller size, IMO.

Why should it be a shuttlebay? It's painted an unusual solid gold; could be the main deflector of the ship (since there's none underneath).

The Excelsior kitbashes that feature Miranda nacelles could also be of this same size, in which case their forward-angled thingamabobs would also be deflectors, not shuttlebay doors.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

When we see the Excelsior kitbash with the saucer at the rear and Constitution-refit nacelles (either Raging Queen or Curry, I forget which is which), it's flying almost parallel to a 'real' Excelsior - showing the Excelsior components on both to be the same scale (whatever that is...)

As for the Centaur... the model isn't even called Centaur. I don't think much thought was put into it (or any of the kitbashes, for that matter). I'd guess it uses the same magic in lieu of a navigational deflector that Miranda, Constellation and Mayflower ships do, has a forward facing shuttlebay, big windows and a three-deck command module, but that's just me. A smaller saucer would be possible, too. I haven't seen "The Ship" in a while, but knowing them, they probably made it the same size as the Jem'Hadar fighter (much like Excelsior and the K'tinga were comperable in size in "Flashback") regardless of the modelmaker's intent.

 

[Neoshade]

i just saw a miranda up close with the aft of a marquis fighter. also saw the nimitz class, wich is almost as bad.

AWWFULL.


I want good old ships like th ent-c!!! i LOVE the Ambassador Class!

 

[Vanyel]

This one right here.

 

[Neoshade]

Exactly. that ship is beautiful. The Ambassador Class Refit for Late TNG is just as amazing. it's a Galaxy saucer slimed down, with a huge lower section, giant deflector and two, over-sized warp nacelles.

Brilliant.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Here is the EAS page with pictures of all the kitbashed DS9 ship models, along with Bernd's usual nitpicking. Here is his TNG Wolf 359 kitbash page, where marker pens become warp nacelles.

 

[JarodRussell]

 

[Gepard]

The saucer and all non-saucer parts are both beautiful, they just don't work together, stylistically. But proportions aside, the '50s car and modern aviation-inspired detailing is gorgeous.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I disagree.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOUjfD9ND8U[/yt]
She's beautiful (when she finally shows up)

 

[JarodRussell]

Nah, still and ugly duck. But I enjoy this video a lot more than the actual movie. It should be the other way round.

 

[Vanyel]

Each nacelle looks like an uncircumcised penis.

 

[Neoshade]

Here is the EAS page with pictures of all the kitbashed DS9 ship models, along with Bernd's usual nitpicking. Here is his TNG Wolf 359 kitbash page, where marker pens become warp nacelles.

Thanks for those links.

Intrepid Variant (U.S.S. Yeager)

The model of the U.S.S. Yeager combines an Intrepid saucer hull from the Monogram Voyager with an almost complete Monogram model of Chakotay's Maquis raider. The nacelles are taken from the Voyager model and simply affixed to the wings of the Maquis raider.

The model is named "U.S.S. Yeager NCC-65674". Unluckily, at the about the same time, a ship of the Saber class was named after Chuck Yeager too.


FAIL.

 

[Neoshade]

Also that video is awesome. I like the realistic damage approach!