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Post by TardisCaptain on Dec 24, 2020 21:09:52 GMT -5
Back in the 90's the Starship Construction Manual by FASA was a very popular book for me. This tome allowed you to create starship statistics for the various races (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn and Orion). What I did is I took the information from various starships seen in tech manuals, blueprints and fanzines and converted them to FASA stats. I kept every ship from the recognition guides, manuals, modules, articles and fan created in a three-ring binder. I recently found the binder and I've started scanning in my old creations from the 90's (where I was quite literally photocopying, cutting and pasting). The first three scans have been posted online here:
As I get more of these "original creations" scanned, I'll post them online.
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Post by starcruiser on Dec 24, 2020 21:48:18 GMT -5
It's always been ... complex to reconcile the Starship Design Bureau's work within the FASA system.
Even the TMP Enterprise was improperly represented by FASA with far too few phasers vs. what is visible on the actual filming miniature (and in all official plans).
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Post by Falconer on Dec 26, 2020 11:23:21 GMT -5
Cool. I really love that Kzinti police cruiser, always happy to see more info an pics about it.
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Post by TardisCaptain on Dec 31, 2020 17:20:07 GMT -5
The graphic and silhouette came from the Dragon Magazine article talking about the Kizinti in the Star Trek FASA universe (not the earlier article with the D&D Kzinti stats). I tried to hand-draw the ship with very limited success. I used graph paper in an attempt to keep things lined up, but I'm not much of a draftsman. I could always appreciate people who could make drawings and art like that since I could not.
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Post by TardisCaptain on Mar 12, 2021 1:24:54 GMT -5
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Post by ufc465537 on Mar 13, 2021 15:12:43 GMT -5
It's always been ... complex to reconcile the Starship Design Bureau's work within the FASA system. Even the TMP Enterprise was improperly represented by FASA with far too few phasers vs. what is visible on the actual filming miniature (and in all official plans). I think FASA tried to correct that in the ST:III Sourcebook Update with the duplicate dorsal and ventral saucer banks, though I wasnt a fan of the explanation /
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Post by TardisCaptain on May 4, 2021 21:10:29 GMT -5
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Post by Falconer on May 4, 2021 22:45:03 GMT -5
Nice! I am a big fan of the Saladin-class, and in fact my players are presently crewing THE Saladin. The Siva-class is from the Star Fleet Technical Manual, as well. The TMP nacelles are probably incongruous, esp. since the Siva-class authorization date is prior to the Organian Treaty (probably 8 years before), and furthermore predates the Bonhomme Richard-class (eg., the Defiant from “The Tholian Web”). Not to nitpick your teenage self to death, just geeking out!
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Post by blackbat242 on May 5, 2021 0:42:20 GMT -5
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Post by blackbat242 on May 5, 2021 1:02:16 GMT -5
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Post by TardisCaptain on May 6, 2021 14:09:46 GMT -5
I haven't created any stats since the 90's. Let me get the rest of the ships I have done scanned and I'll start making a few new datasheets from the blueprints/tech manuals that I have access to. That will get me back into practice.
The pictures looked good. There were a few pictures that stated they were not longer available. I don't know if they were relevant to the model.
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Post by blackbat242 on May 18, 2021 2:40:57 GMT -5
There should have been 24 pics in the set. I just signed out there and looked at the photos and all of them showed up, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
You were looking at the "Trek Models" album, right?
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Post by aramis on May 25, 2021 3:11:06 GMT -5
Athabaska Class? Having grown up in the land of the Athabasqan (the standard spelling is moving to a q instead of c or k), this implies a southcentral Alaska connection...
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Post by TardisCaptain on May 28, 2021 22:04:47 GMT -5
Athabaska Class? Having grown up in the land of the Athabasqan (the standard spelling is moving to a q instead of c or k), this implies a southcentral Alaska connection... I'm not certain where the original source got the name. It came from the fan made "Starfleet Dynamics 25th Anniversary Edition" page 73. No ISDN and the copyright dates are 2291 (the future....). The bios of the authors are also for the people in Starfleet in the future. So you may be correct.
My book looks like this one. The cover on mine is very worn as I read this book a lot. There is also one with a similar cover that says it's updated to Star Trek VI. I don't know if that has any additional information.
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Post by TardisCaptain on May 29, 2021 21:17:56 GMT -5
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