I’ve made a little bit more progress on my Baton Rouge class cruiser. Part of the fun of this project is figuring out the hidden parts of this starship. The painting from the book only shows a view of the vessel from above and behind. In addition to the painting there is a dorsal drawing in the book that you’ll see in the pictures below. As you can tell there is no images of the underside. I collected several 3-view drawings that fans have come up with but I wasn’t happy with what they thought the underside looked like. I hope my take on this old design has retained the look of original painting and helps connect it to later Starfleet designs.
These are the shapes I cut out to build the engineering section with. Although there are only seven layers shown in this picture, I went with eight layers of 1/8th inch thich styrene sheet. Eight layers will help me make the front more round so that I can install a deflector dish similiar to the one on the TOS Enterprise. this will be the main styling cue that ties this vessel to later vessels. Most fan based drawings mount the dish on a post but that looked like an after thought to me. I not only want my deflector to connect my ship to later designs, but also to look like it was an integral part of the design.
This is my model of a ship from Atari’s “Space Invaders”. [:p]
This is how the basic shapes will be stacked to achieve the profile I’m looking for. The gaps will be filled by flat sheets of styrene cut to fit and by my *homemade putty made from the same styrene sheet.
Woody she is looking absolutely beautiful. And great job on the saucer section. You did outstanding work on the concentric scribing.[bow]
Gods speed Captain Woody.[;)]
That is excellent work Woody. I remember, I think it was last year, someone complaining to FSM about not enough SCI-FI interest and lack of articles. This GB goes to show that there is a lot of interest and FSM needs to encourage more people. I have seen other scratchbuild articles in FSM but this GB has nearly everythig scratchbuilt. Awesome work. Kalmbach’s next SCI-FI modeling book should be of entirely new scaratchbuilt subjects with a couple of step-by-step articles.
Shucks guys your making my head swell! [:D][:p] Seriously though, I love FSM’s Sci-Fi section we may not be the biggest segment here but you guys are solid gold in my opinion. Snoopy if they published such a book, they would have at least one sold for sure! [;)]
so Woody you going to try building this again in say 1/680th scale now that would be impressive and think of the possibilities of lighting up a ship of that scale
Woody, that would be two sold. I did not realize how small it is. That is fantastic. I must try something like that when the green backs are plentiful and time is of abundance[:)]
woody im surprised your eyes still work from doing something on such a small scale, i envy you my friend lol, ive got patience but wow. That’s going to look great when its all finished.
FireFox, Not to worry I have plenty of magnifying devices! [:p]
It won’t be too small at just under 10 inches.
I should be posting new pics in a day or two. I spent this evening
building the deflector dish assembly. It didn’t turn out too shabby
in my opinion. I was a little concerned about it because it is part of
my interpetation of the underside. I feel better seeing how it looked resting on the engineering section. Next the saucer pylon! [;)]
Lee, Thank you very much. I just now finished dry fitting the two part deflector assembly to the secondary hull. Next I’ll be finishing the scribing for the secondary hull and then onto the saucer pylon. I know I haven’t made very much progress this week but we are working a lot of overtime at the factory. Happy Happy Joy Joy. [yuck]
I began a MOSCOW scratchbuild myself many years ago. But gave up when I couldn’t get the secondary hull designed to my satisfaction. I based the primary hull on the ERT 18-inch ENTERPRISE. Then built the impulse engines with plastic cut from FOR SALE signs. I put the engines off to the last and never finished. [:(]
