Sunday, February 22, 2009
More prototypes completed
Both Romulan ships, the Firehawk and Sparrowhawk have finished CAD models and the prototypes have been printed and are in my hands. They look cool. I'd like to take pictures, before mold work begins, but I'm a tad busy with class. Still, they're progressing nicely.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Update time
Wow. Two months. Somebody needs to get off his keester and get back to work... In my defense, I did move and start a new job. The hold up now is that I've also gone back to college and I'm taking five classes plus a lab this semester. So, yes, I'm a touch busy.
There are now two GW models/variants. There's the original "production" version, which you've mostly seen. It has those big, gnarly nacelles. The only change to it has been to sweep the nacelle pylon trailing edges back, enlarging them. I did that because I thought they were a bit spindly, given the size of the nacelle.
There's also a "Refit" version. This one has yet another new nacelle design and it's one that's is not derived from the Enterprise-A. That should be nice. It also has a big, honking riser/armored bridge module. Lastly, all of its stock, twin phaser emitters (12 sets, 24 emitters total!) have been stripped off and replaced with collimated phaser strips, TNG-style. The in-universe timing is somewhat questionable, but I think it works. Basically, look at when Ent-C/Ambassador deployed and figure that that was a rather advanced ship, meaning collimated strips must've been around for a while. Where, they had to start somewhere... Yup, just me rationalizing them. ;-)
The Abbe PT destroyer is complete. The Podesti (medium) cruiser is complete.
Not just are the CAD meshes complete, but the prototypes for each are complete and are soaking, getting ready to be cleaned. I hope to start working on the molds in a week or so.
And lest our inhuman pondscum brethren feel left out, I have two Romulan vessels (Firehawk battlecruiser and Sparrowhawk light cruiser) being worked on. Those prototypes should be ready in about three weeks. I'm also working on a Rommie dreadnought (as yet unnamed), but it'll be a little further out.
There are now two GW models/variants. There's the original "production" version, which you've mostly seen. It has those big, gnarly nacelles. The only change to it has been to sweep the nacelle pylon trailing edges back, enlarging them. I did that because I thought they were a bit spindly, given the size of the nacelle.
There's also a "Refit" version. This one has yet another new nacelle design and it's one that's is not derived from the Enterprise-A. That should be nice. It also has a big, honking riser/armored bridge module. Lastly, all of its stock, twin phaser emitters (12 sets, 24 emitters total!) have been stripped off and replaced with collimated phaser strips, TNG-style. The in-universe timing is somewhat questionable, but I think it works. Basically, look at when Ent-C/Ambassador deployed and figure that that was a rather advanced ship, meaning collimated strips must've been around for a while. Where, they had to start somewhere... Yup, just me rationalizing them. ;-)
The Abbe PT destroyer is complete. The Podesti (medium) cruiser is complete.
Not just are the CAD meshes complete, but the prototypes for each are complete and are soaking, getting ready to be cleaned. I hope to start working on the molds in a week or so.
And lest our inhuman pondscum brethren feel left out, I have two Romulan vessels (Firehawk battlecruiser and Sparrowhawk light cruiser) being worked on. Those prototypes should be ready in about three weeks. I'm also working on a Rommie dreadnought (as yet unnamed), but it'll be a little further out.
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