Kitbash orthos

[Albertese]

Deckers don't do well in Starfleet.




--Alex

 

[Forbin]

The Decker - she just started glowing and swirling lights little glowy pieces coming off and... and... it was awful!

 

[Forbin]

The Hiroshi is for B5 fans (lost ramming an enemy ship).
And the Sinclair is a nod to the passing of Michael O'Hare.

I'm trying to make all the lost ships in the book either a bad pun or a tribute.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Stiles?
Lemme guess - that one was breaking down all the time trying to leave Space Dock.

 

[B.J.]

I figured that about the Sinclair. Should have figured out the Hiroshi. (Bad B5 fan! Bad!) Can you imagine the fun the crew of the Y'ARR would have? Talk Like a Pirate Day is probably a required holiday for them!

 

[Forbin]

Yeah, "Y'arr" I just puled out of my ass to have an alien-sounbding name.

BTW, credit to Eric Kristiansen for inspiring the Terrell. It's based on one of Jackill's designs. I liked his drawing (Joshua Paul class) and tried to make "my version" into plastic, then did these drawings off of my version.

 

[Forbin]

USS KIROV

Zee ultimate dreadnought!!

I like the way the name sounds so much that I just don't care he was a damned Bolshevik, and even the Russian Navy renamed their ship after the fall.

 

[Forbin]

Hm. Gotta do some more shadows, like under the saucer.
Sorry, jumped the gun there.

 

[Kaiser]

That Kirov is Pretty

 

[Forbin]

Thanks! I like "sleek"

Refresh, I did a little tweaking.

 

[Ziz]

Did you get the idea for the secondary hull from elsewhere or did you improvise it yourself?

 

[Forbin]

Improvise, baby. Franz Joseph dreadnought theory was that both the saucer and the secondary hull were bigger than a standard cruiser's. After staring at it for a few minutes, I realized the best way to do it was to take the front of the hull from a second Excelsior and flip it. The deflector hole is huge and the shuttle bay thingamajig fits inside just fine.

 

[Forbin]

Gah! Refresh the Kirov again - I forgot those blocky things they added around the bridge superstructure.

 

[John Mason]

love the re-fit ships...

 

[Forbin]

KIROV with front view:

 

[Kaiser]

Looks awesome

 

[Colonel Midnight]

^ Concur -- That's one of the few three-nacelle designs that actually looks right, rather than just having a nacelle/zit stick out of the top of the primary hull.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Forbin]

Thanks, I try.

 

[Forbin]

Back to the Big D - here's a ventral view showing the extended belly, and the shuttle bay access which just happens to be the same shape as the deflector aperture.

 

[publiusr]

Well, the TOS dreadnaught (or dreadnought) did have a deflector back there to start with, but the only way Excelsior could have a shuttlebay that could hold anything is if you scaled it up mightily.