Topic: USS Coronado ready for DL

[Atrahasis]

Damned fun to play!

[Ducttapewonder]

Lookin Sweet there Atra. Glad to see you modeling for SFC again. Hope to see more soon.  

[Desty_Nova]

Your TOS models rock. Thanks, and keep up the excellent work!

[Bernard Guignard]

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Damned fun to play!  

Hi Atrahasis
    Nice to see you get back in the modeling groove. I like what your doing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us  

[DarkMatrix]

the master does  it yet aagain

DM

[Chrystoff]

Great looking ship, Atra! I love the early TMP markings on it.  

[Rogue]

Weeee doggy that's a fine CVL. Thank you Atrahasis.

I don't remember seeing that style of bussard on your models before. Is that a new texture or have I forgotten? Anyway, I LIKE IT!  

[FireSoul]

Very nice indeed..  

I have 2 questions:
1- why no deflector dish?
2- is there going to be a TMP version?

[Rhaz]

Fantastic

[sandman69247]

Slow down Atra!! You're going to burn out you keep going at this pace, plus my poor old heart can't take all the beauties.

If there was any doubt, it should now be apparent....the MASTER has returned.

 

[Marauth]

Stunning, I really like the blue-grey paint job much better than the white ones on the other TOS ships you did a while ago, also the TMP pennants look pretty cool, only thing I spotted that doesn't fit is the open intercooler thingies on the back of the warp nacelles are open like on the Achernar, shouldn't they be filled like on the constitution/bonhomme richard? If not then cool.

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Very nice indeed..  

I have 2 questions:
1- why no deflector dish?
2- is there going to be a TMP version?  

1. Why doesn't the Miranda have a deflector dish?
2. I've got one made from P81's connie up at rogueninech's site - http://www.rogueninech.com/rogueninech.html - the refit version was called the Oriskany in the SOTSF manual, mine's not exactly acurate but the schematic for the Oriskany was pretty ugly in the front of the sec hull so I took a liberty there. Also once I get my main comp running again and get it to uni I'll give Rogue the updated versions made from WZ45's connie.

[wanderer]

Beautifully done, Atra, bravo.

[Rogue NineCH]

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Very nice indeed..  

I have 2 questions:
1- why no deflector dish?
2- is there going to be a TMP version?  

Isn't the deflector dish used mainly on long range starships?  You look at ships like the Miranda, the Constellation, and the Northhampton they don't have one.  I like to think of these ships as medium range to short range ships, plus a carrier usually does not operate alone so she would have an escort that had a dish to compensate.

[Atrahasis]

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Very nice indeed..  

I have 2 questions:
1- why no deflector dish?

Hmmm that never struck me before.....maybe because I have seen this design and had posters of it since I was a wee lad, after all the design is from the 1970's. It just does not have a defelctor. And that is odd for a TOS ship, I'll have to admit. The only place to put it would be hanging down from the bottom dome sensor like on the Saladin / Ptolemy, but then that would ruin the look of the ship because it's supposed to be a very close sister to the Connie. It might also be a navigational hazard for the fighters that have to exit/enter at the front bay.

Hmmm possibly the defelctor units are similar to the WADE units and are at the front of the "box / hump" at the back of the saucer? Either that or at the leading edge of the saucer. I would propose at the front of the box / hump because that view was never in the original diagrams.

There's a set of twin phasers right below the front bay, so the defelctor can't be there either. Quite a conundrum, no?

As for a TMP version, there is no official one, but I believe Jackill's came up with one called the Oriskany or Clemenceau.....however there's no room for a TMP version in the OP ship list because all of these heavy-cruiser-carriers appear before 2270.  

[FireSoul]

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As for a TMP version, there is no official one, but I believe Jackill's came up with one called the Oriskany or Clemenceau.....however there's no room for a TMP version in the OP ship list because all of these heavy-cruiser-carriers appear before 2270.  

Says who?

[Azel]

Stunning as always Atra!!!

 

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Isn't the deflector dish used mainly on long range starships? You look at ships like the Miranda, the Constellation, and the Northhampton they don't have one. I like to think of these ships as medium range to short range ships, plus a carrier usually does not operate alone so she would have an escort that had a dish to compensate.
 

Actually the Contellation is a Deep space explorer not a short-rage ship
Also all federation ships have a deflector system of some type(the miranda class, constellation, and Connie  all have a Deflector array under the saucer...it works in collaboration with the sensors above the sensor dome. )  

[Atrahasis]

I also upgraded the Endeavor with slightly more sophisticated hull panelling, and is available for DL now:



Note: This ship is great fo rthe F-CA+ slot.  

[Marauth]

Can we please see the bonhomme richard? Pretty please with ethanol, er, I mean sugar?

Oh and BTW I read the comparison stats you put for the Endeavour and Enterprise classes and the Enterprise class was not derived from the Achernar, it was derived from the Bonhomme Richard - the Enterprise herself which was the first to undergo the refit was clearly a Bonhomme Richard/Constitution (as it has the apearance of a Bonhomme Richard throughout the 5-year mission and is explicitly refered to as a Constitution class in TOS: Space Seed) just thought I'd mention it.

[Johanobesus]

This is great.  I'm glad you're releasing your models again.  Any chance of the Yamato?

I've always preferred that look for the bussard collectors.  I am curious, though, why you kept them instead of updating them to match your current designs?

Now, if my ISP would quit acting up, I might be able to download it.
 

[Marauth]

Because the others like the Kearsarge and Burke predate the Connie/Bonhomme - whatever you want to call it by several years and are technically pre-TOS - especially the Burke, that's very old, so they don't get the gold-spinny bussards like on the connie and coronado. At least that's what it seems to me.