Will McCammon decided to just see what would be possible. Jean says she will release it in a month.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 03:38 pm: Edit

Seeing it that form....
If you took the Command Module and put it on the Center/Boom Warp Engines, what kinda ship would you end up with.....

By Mark Hutton (Trynda1701) on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 04:08 pm: Edit

No, no, no, Will. That's clearly not the way to do it! ;)

Seriously, well done Sir!

By Joe Carlson (Jrc) on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 04:31 pm: Edit

With this kit I can convert a C8 to a B10?

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 04:49 pm: Edit

... I am now tempted to get out my magnets and order one of these and a T-7, because I -so- want to make a T-10.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 05:05 pm: Edit

Joe -
I don't think I understand your question.
This is a kit to build a B10 mini, which will be available at a price significantly-less than the existing one-piece B10 mini.

The parts are made to work together to make a B10 and have nothing to do with the C8 mini.

You could, in-theory, cut up a C8 mini and glue parts from this onto it, but there is no commonality between the C8 mini and the B10, other than the engines. There would really be no point, other than to make some kind of C8/B10 hybrid that doesn't exist in the games.

Chris -
If you mean the B10T emergency battleship, the one with a B10 boom grafted onto a T7 battle tug, a mini for that ship was released last year.

By Joe Carlson (Jrc) on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 07:32 pm: Edit

Will,

Your answer clears up my confusion. Thanks.

By Jack Bohn (Jackbohn) on Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 07:44 am: Edit

Neat! A hollow hull, that should save plastic. Plus, one could light it!

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 08:26 am: Edit

Will,

Actually, there is an "Unbuilt Variant" C8/B10 hybrid in Module R7. It's called the "B8 Combined Dreadnought" and it consists of a B10 boom attached to a C8 rear hull. In power and weapons it falls a bit short of a true battleship but is closer to a battleship than a dreadnought in those respects. (At least it is more like a battleship in power. Weapons are equivocal with more disruptors but fewer drone racks and one fewer phaser-1 but better phaser arcs - all compared to the C10 Heavy Dreadnought.) shields are dreadnought-level rather than battleship-level. Overall combat capability is better than a C10 but less than a B10.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 08:37 am: Edit

If Will wants to do a B8 he has my blessing.

If Will wants to do kits for B8 and T10 he doesn't need to ask permission.

If Will wants to do a lot of Fed and Klingon kits, entire ships or just spare parts, that feed the kitbash heresy then he can go for it.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 11:17 am: Edit

This is a truly slick approach.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 03:33 pm: Edit

That’s a big cargo bay...how many tribbles will fit?

Seriously nice work, Will!

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Sunday, April 12, 2020 - 02:45 am: Edit

Many (small) tribbles will fit.

The B8 "combined dreadnought" has been on my list of "maybe, someday" ships for quite a while, but I haven't looked that far down the list in many months (too busy finishing "missing hulls"). Frankly, I'd forgotten about it.

I might look into kitting certain additional ships (the Fed CA would be the first to look at, due to its height and good sales potential).

The final "flat pack" kit model for the B10B looks like this: PICTURE
(I made some minor revisions to hide more of the tree-connection points in places that won't be seen on an assembled ship).

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 03:23 am: Edit

Nice B10 Kit