WIP: U.S.S. Bozeman revisited--aka Unused TSFS Ship Design.
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Gep...
I think this is terrific, and honestly, I want a copy. Not as an electronic copy, but a 1/2500 or 1/1000 model kit. I'm actually somewhat serious... you could distribute it via "Federation Models." All you'd have to do is make the original pattern, and they'd do the casting and resell it for you.
Unique, but well-executed designs like this really ought to be available for the world to enjoy.
Just don't forget to give credit to Nilo Rodis... maybe provide cover art with your ship overlaid, in transparent form, on top of the original image?
Wasn't REL planning to do a kit of Vektor's Grandeur? Maybe I could get something worked out with him. And I'm partly serious, too; it's funny you should mention a kit, because that was the first thing that popped to mind when sojourner said he wanted to pick it up by the secondary hull and run it around the room.
I have more hope from a practical standpoint of getting it in the Ships of the Line calender, though; they've already used talent poached from the TrekBBS, so once I have a more complete model to show for it, I'm planning on making a pitch.
One of the advantages of the physical model is that you don't have to do any texturing...Gep...
I think this is terrific, and honestly, I want a copy. Not as an electronic copy, but a 1/2500 or 1/1000 model kit. I'm actually somewhat serious... you could distribute it via "Federation Models." All you'd have to do is make the original pattern, and they'd do the casting and resell it for you.
Unique, but well-executed designs like this really ought to be available for the world to enjoy.
Just don't forget to give credit to Nilo Rodis... maybe provide cover art with your ship overlaid, in transparent form, on top of the original image?
Wasn't REL planning to do a kit of Vektor's Grandeur? Maybe I could get something worked out with him. And I'm partly serious, too; it's funny you should mention a kit, because that was the first thing that popped to mind when sojourner said he wanted to pick it up by the secondary hull and run it around the room.
I have more hope from a practical standpoint of getting it in the Ships of the Line calender, though; they've already used talent poached from the TrekBBS, so once I have a more complete model to show for it, I'm planning on making a pitch.
The ideal is to get a very-high-resolution SLA ("stereolithography") pattern made. You'd want to "slice up" the computer model into the bit which would make up each part, and make multiple parts. A little touch-up with wet, fine-grade and ultra-fine-grade sandpaper, and you've got patterns.
Some of the little "notch-ish" details on this ship would be hard to make in an injection-molded plastic kit... but castings made from RTV molds... it'd be pretty much painless.
I'll buy one. So you already have a sale.
(One of these days, if I ever get around to finishing the final details on the Vega, I plan to do the same thing. I can't do that with my current model, though... I'll have to go in and create a "solid" version, without all the guts. With your model... that's not an issue.)
I don't think that would work. The Bozeman is chock full of holes, open backsides and disconnected geometry, all of which I understand prevent 3D printers from working with a file. Fixing all of that up for printing would be a job in itself.
ETA: The term I was looking for was "manifold." There's a page here from a 3D printing company about it; the Bozeman is non-manifold out the wazoo.
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I'm looking forward to the final Schematic views. Great work on this ship
Alright guys, when do we start building the time machine to get the physical version (Face it, someone here is going to make a real model of this beauty) to Image G in time for "Cause and Effect" to air?
Still loving this ship! 
Who couldn't love this ship?
A random impression I got from reviewing some STXI photos: this ship would be a nice and logical TMP-style refit of that fancy two-secondary-hulls ship that is seen prominently on the Enterprise viewscreen just before Sulu forgets to release the parking brake.
It's got the same wide-astern hull, the same engines-up-on-outboard-corners layout, and the same twin ventral pylons to hold the secondary structures. Only this time, there is just one broad structure down there, instead of two separate ones. Perhaps the strange twin-pylon layout of the Bozeman, the one that has annoyed several spectators, is something dictated by the fact that it "was already there"?
Timo Saloniemi
It's got the same wide-astern hull, the same engines-up-on-outboard-corners layout, and the same twin ventral pylons to hold the secondary structures. Only this time, there is just one broad structure down there, instead of two separate ones. Perhaps the strange twin-pylon layout of the Bozeman, the one that has annoyed several spectators, is something dictated by the fact that it "was already there"?
Timo Saloniemi
Said ship could be reasoned to exist within the Prime Timeline, considering the use of Kelvin components.
This model is incredible. As far as I'm concerned, it's part of my own personal Star Trek canon that exists within my head. It's that good. Really looking forward to seeing it in all its textured glory.
NEAT! *snaps picture*
I second this emotion!
Totally seconded.
Short answer: Not yet.
Long answer: Actually, its about the same.
Soon, though. Soon.
And then I vanished, leaving Lucy alone with the magician.
