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.