31 Aug 2015

Nova Class - USS Equinox

The Ship was based on the USS Defiant Pathfinder design. The Pathfinder was part of the background story in the DS9 Technical Manual Sternbach devised to describe the design history of what was to become the Defiant Class.
At the end it was used for the USS Equinox NCC-72381 in the Star Trek Voyager episode "Equinox".
 
Sternbach's early Defiant (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1 Issue 14)
and the final Nova Class Blueprint
I bought the Nova Class resin model kit in 1/1400. It's only one part - the whole ship is 16,1cm long. I want to use JT Graphics USS Equinox Decals.
Therefore it was necessary to sand some areas like:
  • upper Sendor Bays
  • bottom Sensor Bays
  • RCS Engines
I filled some lines (which doesn't exist) and the upper Deflector for the Decal replacement.


Furthermore, I have revised the structure of the pylons bottom side and corrected the position of the lower Phaser strip.


My USS Equinox should look like in the episode. That's why I added the battle damages.


23 Aug 2015

USS Enterprise - TOS

Art Director Matt Jefferies created the Constitution Class for the TV-Show:
"I was concerned about the design of ship that Gene told me would have warp drive. I thought, ‘What the hell is warp drive?’ But I gathered that this ship had to have powerful engines — extremely powerful. To me, that meant that they had to be designed away from the body."


Concept art by Matt Jefferies

I bought the resin model kit of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 from the original Series in 1/1400. The ship is 20,7cm long when build and very accurate. I only filled some lines which will be replaced by Decals.


16 Aug 2015

Size of the SS Emmette

screenshot by trekcore.com (ENT opening credits)
This is the schematic of the SS Emmette:

schematic by DrexFiles
My premise: the SS Emmette has no windows. So it is a prototype to test higher warp speed. Therefore there will be no "luxury rooms" and a normal ceiling height of 2.5 m. The rest of the ship is full of technology.
The ship is 131m long. If the ship (like the model kit from Fantastic Plastic) would really be 95m long, then the deck would only have a high of 1.8 m.