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Mad Starship Designs

No, they all belong to a friend of mine. He was acquiring FASA minis of random types off eBay, and sent some of the better ones off to be remade in metal, or had them altered to "look better" (The Brenton-class needed a bridge and the impulse engine was backwards on the one be bought off eBay, but another friend of ours fixed one of them (it was resin) and set it off to someone else to be remade in metal). I think it was the same for the Durrett and a few other things they ran into. Like the Anton-class and Thufir-class. The modeler also did some remolding and got the Chandley and Nova-class ships to come in less pieces. Also the Loknars and Larsons with both styles of nacelles.

My friend also found a FASA scale Phase II Constitution someplace. We used that as the Constitution Mk IV in the game, while a wrecked Constitution (similar damage to USS Constellation) was used as the USS Ark Royal (the last of the Constitution Mk IIIs). Plus sometimes he has seeming random stuff that was never made, like the V-1 and V-4 Romulan cruisers. We considered using those for a possible set of Klingon-Romulan conflicts/incidents in the post-Four Years War era (or have some expendable Federation ships wonder into these thing to likely get destroyed in the crossfire)

We were trying to get a sizable group of Four Years War era ships of one kind or another to try to pull off battles from that era, instead of post-Kirk era like we had been. The diversity of ships was rather limited though. Especially for the Klingons. We managed to go something like a D-4 cruiser, and I think we had one of the slightly different shaped Star Fleet Battles ships as a D-6 stand in for when we didn't want just D-7s everywhere. Or we wanted an interesting setup in the third year of the war....when most Federation ship were still armed with "lasers" and "accelerator cannons", but some of the Anton-class is armed with really good phasers (FH-3). Those verses D-7s and/or older Klingon cruisers and destroyers (ships that have shorter ranged disruptors compared to the D-7) should make for a good fight.
 
Although we never tried to play Four Years War scenarios, back when we played regularly (90s), getting minis other than FASA minis for our games was fun.

I've used Silent Death, Aerotech and even part of a Battlemech with a Klingon boom attached for ship minis!
 
I used to build my own starship designs. I have a bunch of starship parts. I was collecting them from friend.yard sales and flea markets. I built my own U.S.S Discovery back in 1990. I made it as a 2280's ship. I took the nacelle struts from the E-D and sanded the details off it. Then I used a refit Connie that had it's nacelles broken off and cut 2 slits in the Connie engineering hull and stuck the E-D nacelle struts on and then I attached The refit Connie's nacelles on. It was actually pretty cool looking,a pretty sleek looking ship. It would have made a good E-A since they toyed with the idea of a new ship class for it. I was working on it at a friend's house and left it there until I got custom decals for it. My friend's drunken alcoholic brother sent it flying and "decommisioned" it. I still have all the parts along with s couple bins of Starship parts. I labeled it WOLF-359. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with them along with still sealed in box Trek models. I'm not really able to build anymore due to an auto immune retina disease and to top it off the meds treating gave me central nervous system neurotoxicity which is another reason that I can't build anymore.
 
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