The runts of the fleet, and more... highly accurate vehicles and props, digital and practical.

[vfxart]

And there shall be no flappy of the flappy wing things on this ship (pulling in from another asset that uses them, prepping them to get them correct for this build)

 

[Dukhat]

Fantastic! I *think* I have most of it (famous last no not really last just... sigh... words ;-) ) but yeah, nailing down the 'how' of some of this I might send a yell or two. :-)

The lingering Q right now is why I have a note for the Excelsior AND Ent B. But I have to crack the B open to see. And LED sizes, but eh, will get to that later. Got them at 3mm right now.

The small fins on the rear of the Ent-B nacelles are used on the connecting pylons (aka the Excelsior display stand) for the Saturn V/cargo pods, and on the Voyager nacelle pylons.

 

[vfxart]

Oh cripes of course yeah, was just looking at those while I sort out all of the M2A2 bits and wondering. Thanks!

 

[Atolm]

@vfxart : These are so excellent! Keep up the great work.

Merchantman really stood out on the screen—it had a bit of a Star Wars look to it….one of the few ships without nacelles at that time.

I hope more of Nilo’s art comes out.

There is a more streamlined pre-Constitution design floating around recently:

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Masao’s designs might fit that role better than Bonaventure…the Resolute actually looks a tad newer than TOS ships.

Not a lot of smaller starships in canon.

Hey! That's my Resolute design that I did for WickedZombie45 back in the day. ZambieZan had converted her for BC...lol Wild to see that.

 

[vfxart]

@Dukhat Think well of me. ;-) Today is the day of modeling all of the M2A2 parts. The tread is done, now it's the rest...

As an actual question- I know that this is one of the few ships that never got a proper registry, it's completely unmarked. Did AB ever happen to mention if there was ever an intended one, or a -1234 'set aside' to be used?

Well in advance of needing anything like that, but I had been wondering.

 

[Dukhat]

Nope, there was no intended registry for either the Bradford or the Jupp. From what I understand, Judy Elkins created the name & registry decals for most of the ships, so she would have been the one to come up with the numbers for any particular model.

 

[vfxart]

So.
Many.
Plates.

Related q- 8 donor kits?
Reliant (which I typically don't count cuz you know...,), M2A2, F14, F15, Apache, Ent B, Excelsior, Voyager, yow I'm forgetting one... Maquis?

I really need to build a site to get more of this down and not just my google docs.

Next q- of the ref that you have or have seen, is there enough non-blurry to build comprehensive maps from? Going to try that over what I have buuuuuuuut......... ;-)

Thanks!

Ps sry about image quality for this one. Two newly not feral cats are in my studio, mama and little I just reunited tonight, and I don't want to disturb them to get a better ver.

 

[Dukhat]

This will actually be a good guide for when I start building my physical model.

 

[vfxart]

@Dukhat
Wanted to direct the questions above to you, but didn't get the @ in.

I'll get a few more donors done and keep up with posting occasional updates. Sadly, I can't see a few areas of the ship in the ref, so I'm not sure on a few things. But I'll likely have a go at a map or maps soon all the same.

Working on Voyager bits today while sitting in with the formerly-ferals.

 

[vfxart]

@Dukhat

sigh, right, next silly question time- any notes on what the nacelle grills, the forward 'inset', and the matter sink (old bussard collector location), are sourced from? They could all even be custom built, cast, and tinted. The inset appears to be using a diffuser pattern. Oh what fun.

 

[Dukhat]

I don’t have access to my reference photos at the moment (away on vacation) but I’ll look at them when I get back.

 

[vfxart]

I don’t have access to my reference photos at the moment (away on vacation) but I’ll look at them when I get back.

:-D

I hear Risa is bea... well ok no it's pretty much Risa all the time...