My homebrew kitbashes

[Kaiser]

One final pass correcting lines and making some detail alterations and this time I AM done...

Awesome

 

[Ian Keldon]

I know, I know...I SWORE I was finished, but...

 

[Kaiser]

Good lookin ships there

 

[Albertese]

Don't worry. Art is never finished...only abandoned...

--Alex

 

[Ian Keldon]

Well, here I go again...new parts from JAFisher, so new design coming up...

Drake-class exploration cruiser

 

[Kaiser]

Finally a wish and dream came true!!!

Vance style Excelsior class parts in B/W and a design made from them

all we need now is Endurance class Sencor pod, Constellation type saucer and Excelsior / Enterprise B type impluse engines and Belknap Class secondary hull and we can recreate all the best designs from Jackill and Mastercom Data center

 

[Ian Keldon]

post pulled for image replacement, will repost

 

[Kaiser]

Lovely design

 

[Albertese]

I like this compact design, but I would make one suggestion: from a visual balance point-of-view, the interconnecting dorsal seems too short in the fore-aft direction.

I would suggest leaving the aft surface where it is but moving the forward face of it so the lower end comes all the way down the round slope of the engineering hull (as it did on the refit E) and then attaches to the saucer about halfway between where it is now and where the aft end of the lower superstructure is. That will make it look more substantial without breaking up the visual flow.

With the forward slope of the structure the way it is now, the whole thing just looks a little dopey, somehow. But, I think the simple change I just described will improve it immeasurably. Other than that, I really like this one.

--Alex

 

[Ian Keldon]

reposting with updated image:

Another of the so-called "Treaty Cruisers" born out of the first decade after the signing of the First Khitomer Accords, the Lor'harrival-class cruiser walked a fine legal line. Despite the failure and exposure of the Cartwright conspiracy, many in the Federation (and especially in Starfleet) remained highly skeptical of Klingon intentions, and Starfleet's Plans and Policies board was chief among them.

While obeying every letter of the limitations imposed by the Accords, the Lor'harrival (named for a famous Andorian Imperial Guard commander turned explorer) certainly pushed those limitations to the breaking point.

The class boasted in addition to the usual saucer section and ventral secondary hull mounts not one but two twin-mount Type 8 phaser banks firing into the aft arc whereas most other cruisers had either a single twin- or two single-mount banks at that location.

To bring the weapons load-out back into compliance with the limitations, the embarked photon torpedo stores were changed from the Mark VII warheads that were the then-current fleet standard for the less powerful Mark VIs that were their immediate predecessors. An experimental, vertically-arranged, double-feed torpedo launcher was incorporated in early hulls, but, while generally successful, failed to perform up to expectations, and was considered to not be worth the additional space required.

---Jane's Fighting Starships Historical Review, May 2372 edition

 

[Kaiser]

Still a good looking ship

 

[Ian Keldon]

Agrippa-class cruiser

 

[Kaiser]

Good lookin ships

 

[BK613]

interesting Agrippa designs. like the bottom version the best.

one tiny thing I noticed: there is a discrepancy in the height of the engine/photon pod structure in the front and side views, the front view sits higher than the side view.

 

[Ian Keldon]

Nice catch...fixed...

 

[Ian Keldon]

Odyssey-class cruiser
[/i]Odyssey[/i]-class exploration cruiser

 

[Kaiser]

Nice ship

 

[Ian Keldon]

Just prior to the explosion on Praxis in 2293, Starfleet had finished construction on it's latest class of shuttlecarrier, the Ark Royal. Six months and one treaty later, Starfleet had a proverbial "white elephant" on it's hands. Not allowed to keep the ships in commission due to the stipulations of the Accord, Starfleet nevertheless did not want to simply send them to the breakers or stick them in a Boneyard to slowly rot.

What then, were they to do?

It was finally suggested that they be converted into exploration vessels. With 70%+ of the space allocated to small craft and their support systems reconfigured into labs, crew facilities, and storage space, the ships would still have more embarked craft than any cruiser or frigate, and science facilities comparable only to those found on certain starbases.

The robust hull construction inherent to shuttlecarrier designs would allow the weapons and shields to be downgraded, keeping the ship safely within the limits imposed by the Accord, and if anyone noticed that those last changes could be quickly and easily undone with minimal dockyard time (which would turn the ships into a highly effective super-heavy cruiser/battlecruiser, they didn't bother to bring the subject up.

The 12 ships of the "new" class, rechristened the Khitomer class all went on to have highly distinguished careers in the Galaxy Exploration Division, and are considered by many engineers to be one of the best examples of starship re-purposing ever completed, and certainly one of the most robust designs of the early 24th century.

 

[Kaiser]

Awesome ship

 

[Ian Keldon]

Jupiter-class battleship