So... unbelievably, I've recently had a streak of very good luck, regarding the TNG-era FASA designs... I've gotten access to orthos for CG models of the Decker, Royal Sovereign, and Wellington, and I have a modeler lined up to model both the M'Benga and Moscow in CG. I currently have someone prepping the Royal Sovereign to be 3D printed for me. So...
I've decided that, armed with these new orthos, I'm going to try to recreate the pages of the FASA TNG Officer's Manual, but now with consistent orthos for the ships, as well as updated stats that make much more sense. I'm also going to be using this thread to post WIP photos of my 3D printed Royal Sovereign build, as well as any other TNG FASA builds, as I fully intend to print all the ships. The Wellington might be a challenge, because I know someone who has access to the files, but it's the Wellington that was on Shapeways, and now that Shapeways is going out of business, IDK if he'd be able to print me a copy or not. We'll see when the time comes.
Here is a preview WIP of the breakdown for the Royal Sovereign print that the printer sent me. The final product (assembled) will be 25" long. FASA says the Royal Sovereign is 625 meters long (one of the few accurately scaled FASA ships, IMO), which puts my printed kit at 1/984 scale.
I may or may not just end up transferring or merging all the stuff from the Decker thread here, we'll see. But I do plan to have this thread here be multimedia... physical modeling, 2D line art, text, and hopefully a few LCARS and/or Okudagraphics. As with the Decker thread, this will be a long-lived thread, as real life and other issues that take up my time, as well as the demands of the time of the modelers who create the CG ships for me and the printers who print them, will no doubt mean there will be sometimes lengthy intervals without updates. But they will come. Stay tuned.
- BolianAdmiral
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I'm really looking forward to seeing your work on the FASA book. I've seen some of the stuff from those, but never any of the complete books.
You pretty much have to redesign from scratch to get them to look good.
Thanks. Regarding the 3D print… most of the time, whoever is prepping the files just has to simply slice the model into pieces. But I had requested that the model be hollow, mostly to cut down on both material and cost, so the printer is hollowing out the sections of hull (except for the nacelles). He still has to hollow out the secondary hull and split it into two pieces, so it will be a 9-piece kit when delivered.
Yeah it is going to be interesting to observe what goes into making parts for a model to be printed 3D. I know they did that with the Razor Crest from the Mandalorian.
According to Wikipedia, the acronym stands for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration". Most fans are most familiar with FASA via their TOS and TMP-era designs, which have become fan favorites, such as the Loknar, Larson, Klingon D-10, and Orion Wanderer, etc. The folks who appreciate, let alone love the TNG-era designs are a vastly tiny minority, lol. I might just be the biggest fan of their TNG work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASA
They had whole fleets of miniature die cast ships from every major race! I was just getting ready to start buying them when the entire series was cancelled. Lesson learned.....When you see something you want GET IT! It might not be there tomorrow!
http://fasaststcs.com/index.php/thefleets/united-federation-of-planets/star-fleet/royal-sovereign-class-xvii-battlecruiser/
https://www.ststcsolda.space/federation/sovereign_royal/sovereign_royal.html
I love them as well—especially Decker.
You might want to make different versions.
I don’t think anyone has a good Klingon Academy Yamato print available…
This is the best representation so far—not just an Ariel saucer—not blocky:
Mark
My favorite unique feature of this design as well. It’s always suggested “skimming” across the surface of something to me. This ship flying over a planetary ring as in the opening credits of ST: Voyager could be interesting.
Mark