Ships of the FASA RPG #1

[Vance]

Put up this 32 page guide of various ships from the FASA RPG (schematics are separate in the art forum). This volume includes the Anton, Constitution, Loknar, and Larson classes, along with their TOS-era subtypes.

Ships of the FASA Role-Playing Game, Volume 1

Enjoy!

 

[Starlock]

Looking good!

You managed to make the designs workable. They always seemed to be a bit off scale or awkwardly drawn in the FASA books. Thankfully you didn't copy the "raster scan" style of the first color booklets.

 

[Albertese]

I've always liked these ships. Nice work.

 

[Psion]

Beautiful, Vance!

A minor nitpick, the main sensor on the Nelson Scout in TO 01:01-05 is a different size in the front and side views. Did you mean to put a dish on the front view similar to that shown in TO 01:01-11?

 

[Timo]

Also, from what I've seen, the oldest FASA artwork for Nelson featured a different nacelle mount: not just the twin dorsals, but the nacelle was also farther back than in Hermes. (Many stats speak of 270 m length, too, against otherwise Hermes-like dimensions such as 127 m beam.)

Perhaps it would be good to give this additional distinctiveness to the FASA design, to set her further apart from the Franz Joseph mold?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Vance]

A minor nitpick, the main sensor on the Nelson Scout in TO 01:01-05 is a different size in the front and side views. Did you mean to put a dish on the front view similar to that shown in TO 01:01-11?

Good catch. I used the wrong dish on the forward view there. That's definitely something to fix. It should be the 'cage' dish and not the regular 'production' dish.

I may do a 'revised' version of the guide for November and add a couple of ships. That fix will definately be included in the update.

 

[Vance]

Timo said:
Also, from what I've seen, the oldest FASA artwork for Nelson featured a different nacelle mount: not just the twin dorsals, but the nacelle was also farther back than in Hermes.

Actually, I have it's location right, but had to change the mount to better reflect how the nacelle actually connects. This is a bit of 'the risk' when developing from FASA's artwork, where to make needed adjustments...

(Many stats speak of 270 m length, too, against otherwise Hermes-like dimensions such as 127 m beam.)

The stats are taken from STCTCS, even if they're not correct for the artwork.