Qari is listed above but I can't find it in the shop.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, August 07, 2019 - 06:35 pm: Edit

That's a flivver; I'm blaming autocorrect. The Qari won't get to Jean until tonight. Maybe you can ask her to sneak it into the store. I'd hate for it to wait a month.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Wednesday, August 07, 2019 - 06:45 pm: Edit

No sneaking into the shop. I need to get a certain PDF up.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Wednesday, August 07, 2019 - 06:48 pm: Edit

Its the last thing I want to put in my order. No problem waiting for next months order though I can pick something else to take its place.

By Art Trotman (Drneuro) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 07:14 am: Edit

I cannot find the Fed DNW or Lyran DNW. Were those postponed until next month?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 10:06 am: Edit

The Lyran one arrived too late. Jean held the Fed and Klingon DNWs to headline 1 September.

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 10:08 am: Edit

I do not see them either. I know I submitted the Lyran.....

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 10:38 am: Edit

You submitted it too late and Jean got tired of me pushing her to flex the deadlines. In future get stuff done earlier.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 11:55 am: Edit

Hate to be that guy but the Gorn BCH is missing its most important feature, it's plasma-R torpedo. I used epoxy to add one to my model.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 01:09 pm: Edit

To the best of my knowledge (and I just looked at the FC ship card for the Gorn BCH in Communique 66), the BCH does not have a plasma-R.

It has a plasma-S centerline, with a an additional plasma-S on each wing (also with a plasma-F on each wing).

Are you thinking of the Gorn CS strike cruiser? That ship takes the Gorn CM and crams a plasma-R in, on centerline.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 01:16 pm: Edit

The CM has two S in the center, the CS has one R in the center.

By Art Trotman (Drneuro) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 02:09 pm: Edit

It looks like September 1 is going to be a very expensive day for me having three DNWs along with everything else. LOL

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 02:23 pm: Edit

For what it's worth, the heavy medium cruiser from SFB Module R12, which builds up from the CS/CM the way that the BCH builds up from the BC, has a plasma-R launcher. (Which is why I still think it should have been called the heavy strike cruiser, but alas.)

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 02:32 pm: Edit

Oops yes it should be a plasma-S, not R. The legacy mini has a large torpedo under the main hull that is absent on the Shapeways model.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 02:50 pm: Edit

The torp is missing on the model in the store; I'll send a new one shortly. (I've emailed Jean directly.) The belly torp is on the test model on my personal store, so something glitched somewhere.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 04:48 pm: Edit

ADB Releases Ships in August 2019!

On August 7, 2019, ADB released a total of 61 new items to its shop on Shapeways, bringing it to 1,667 items. There are some styles of ships designed to work within the price increase that Shapeways imposed. We are also releasing some of the smaller ships as multiples on a sprue. We hope you find them more affordable.

The Federation gets its Battle Carrier in both the "regular" (gridded) and "Fed Classic" (smooth body) versions.

The Klingons gain their E6 Battle Escort and G6 Heavy Police Ship.

The Tholians gain their Neo-Tholian Stellar Domination Ship and a unique ship: the TK5 Destroyer formed by combining a patrol corvette-class hull with the captured rear hull of the Klingon F5 frigate Blackguard.

The Seltorians get their New Strike Carrier.

The Gorns gain their Light Gunboat/PF Tender in both the regular and refitted versions.

The Kzintis get their Light Gunboat/PF Tender.

The Hydrans also get their frigates on a sprue: one sprue of two Cuirassiers, one sprue of two Hunters, and one sprue with both a Cuirassier and a Hunter. They also get their Kiowa War Dreadnought. Their local defenses are beefed up with the Voltiguer Local Defense Frigate and Grenadier Local Defense Cruiser.

The Lyrans and their wayward county of the Lyran Democratic Republic get their Local Defense Cruiser.

The Andromedans get their Mobile Weapons Platforms that serve as their gunboats/fighters.

The ISC gets its System Defense Destroyer.

The Jindarians show up with their Light Strike Cruiser.

Some units that are common to all empires are added. These include an Augmented Commercial Platform, a Commercial Platform with Pods, two different types of Communications Stations, a SAM Station, and a collection of small ships (Free Trader, Prime Trader, Prime Corvette, Armed Cutter, Armed Priority Transport, and Federation Express Courier).

The simulator empires expand. The Frax get their Command Cruiser. The empires include the Flivvers and Canadi'ens which each get their Heavy Cruisers to challenge aspiring captains.

In the Omega Octant the Iridani get their Brigantine while the Sigvirions get their New Frigate and New Heavy Cruiser.

Check all these out here: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/amarillo-design-bureau-inc
Don't forget to follow us: https://www.shapeways.com/designer/adbinc

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Friday, August 09, 2019 - 06:10 pm: Edit

The Gorn Heavy Battlecruiser in both scales and styles has been replaced.

By John Pepper (Akula) on Sunday, August 11, 2019 - 04:15 pm: Edit

What ended up happening to the Fed CC and CB with the rear saucer modifications. Did they ever get released? Can't seem to find them.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Sunday, August 11, 2019 - 09:12 pm: Edit

You are probably thinking of the way the Federation Command Cruiser and Heavy Command Cruiser were done in metal, for Starline 2500.

Those had never been proposed by me for the Shapeways versions.

By John Pepper (Akula) on Monday, August 12, 2019 - 12:03 am: Edit

That's too bad those would be awesome on shapeways!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 12, 2019 - 12:53 am: Edit

I would not want to disrespect Mongoose by duplicating Sandrine's work, and I think Will's design is swell.

If Will wants to do "fancy" versions of ships he can discuss it with Jean.

By Tom Talasco (Pvt64) on Monday, August 12, 2019 - 09:50 am: Edit

Would a Federation New Drone Cruiser model differ from the existing New Scout Cruiser?

By Tom Talasco (Pvt64) on Monday, August 12, 2019 - 10:08 am: Edit

Hoping that we might see a Kzinti Needle Tender, Romulan Chickenhawk and a Seltorian PFT soon.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, August 12, 2019 - 11:11 am: Edit

Tom,

A New Drone Cruiser would differ from the New Scout Cruiser because the NSC has special sensors (the dishes), while the NCD does not.

The closest existing ship to the NCD is the base NCL. The differences are very minor (switch the photon ports to drone ports; add a second drone port to the existing one on the rear of the hull.)

By Tom Talasco (Pvt64) on Monday, August 12, 2019 - 11:54 am: Edit

Thanks Mike!