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New kitbash - USS Sultana

Forbin

Forbin

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Okee doke, I hadda get a second bash done this year or I'd'a been ashamed of myself.

This is an excelsior-base tug/transport designed to use the classic Franz Joseph cargo pods, in a side-by-side arrangement that Jackill first used on a Miranda-based tug. The LN-64 nacelles are from the SSM store's Dark Star kitbashing set. The aft hull is sheet styrene (I guess that's prett obvious! ).

Decals are from everybody - Home made for the ship name, numbers & pennants, DLM Excelsior color panels, JTGraphics window decals, and some PNT detail decals.

The cargo pods are made from 1.5" thickwall PVC pipe. The end caps are sections of some plastic spherical gashapon capsules. The pod-mounting pads on the ship are resin pieces from PNT Models' PL E tug conversion kit. Thomas was kind enough to send me a few rejects from his scrap pile that didn't need too much fixing.

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And lemme tell ya, it took me quite a while to figure out a stand that supported everyhing!

The cargo pods are removeable. I used the locations of the two turbolift apertures in FJ's plans for holes in the ship, and two brass rods in each pod.
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Here's a family portrait with its grandpa, PNT's classic FJ tug conversion.
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Enjoy!
 
Wow! Awsome models! Now I can't wait to get back home and pull all of my kits out of storage.

Good work! :thumbsup:
 
Sir That is Fantastic work. Looking forward to seeing some schematics of Her.
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Forbin your work is incredible. How much time do you typically put into a project such as this?
 
glindros said:
Forbin your work is incredible. How much time do you typically put into a project such as this?
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Heck, I really don't know. If I start timing myself it'll stop being fun.
 
I really like that design. It is the first Excelsior kitbash I've seen that works (including the Excelsior and Enterprise-B). And it is the first TMP-era transport to respect the rule of keeping the space between the linear nacelles unobstructed. It also dispenses with the Excelsior nacelles and uses the LN-64s. I like that thinking because, as with my Ariel, I would assume that as the technology progressed, a smaller nacelle could do more work.

I hope you draft plans for this ship. :thumbsup:
 
Thanks everbody!!

aridas sofia said:
I really like that design. It is the first Excelsior kitbash I've seen that works (including the Excelsior and Enterprise-B). And it is the first TMP-era transport to respect the rule of keeping the space between the linear nacelles unobstructed. It also dispenses with the Excelsior nacelles and uses the LN-64s. I like that thinking because, as with my Ariel, I would assume that as the technology progressed, a smaller nacelle could do more work.

I hope you draft plans for this ship. :thumbsup:
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Those big-ass Excelsior nacelles just do NOT look right on any Excelsior kitbash that's smaller than the full-size ship. I was so happy when Starship Modeler started offering 1/1000 LN-64s as a kitbashing kit! :lol:
 
Lovely work but when is that not the case? She's almost too sexy to be a tug--w/o the cargo containers, the wasp-like lines make her look like a mean attack ship. Maybe you could do a variant with cannons or even turrets mounted where the tug assemblies are.
 
Sultana, eh?

She looks like a good ship. Can tug my cargo any day...

I wonder if she can tug a double-train...
 
Forbin said:
Thanks everbody!!

aridas sofia said:
I really like that design. It is the first Excelsior kitbash I've seen that works (including the Excelsior and Enterprise-B). And it is the first TMP-era transport to respect the rule of keeping the space between the linear nacelles unobstructed. It also dispenses with the Excelsior nacelles and uses the LN-64s. I like that thinking because, as with my Ariel, I would assume that as the technology progressed, a smaller nacelle could do more work.

I hope you draft plans for this ship. :thumbsup:
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Those big-ass Excelsior nacelles just do NOT look right on any Excelsior kitbash that's smaller than the full-size ship. I was so happy when Starship Modeler started offering 1/1000 LN-64s as a kitbashing kit! :lol:
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When I wrote my W.D.E. theory on starship propulsion and velocity (posted in the "Trek Tech" forum quite a while back), I proposed that the LN-64s were simply a smaller, somewhat earlier version of the same dual-warp drive setup that was used in subsequent nacelle designs, including the Excelsior and even the Galaxy-class of the 2360's. (I called those engines LN-120s) Since LN-64s are still seen on ships in TNG and DS9, it's not too much of a leap.
 
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