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Aren't they nearly identical?? The only outward difference I can find is a third weapon on the CM to the CL two.


Garth L. Getgen

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Friday, September 18, 2026 - 06:13 pm: Edit

Garth, that's part of it, pre-refit, the CLs had power issues, and given the ships they match up with, the Lyran CW and Klingon D5, they were at a significant disadvantage. The four boxes of Warp, and extra fusion or hellbore helped a lot.

By Greg Ernest (Gernest) on Friday, September 18, 2026 - 10:57 pm: Edit

I'd like to see the early war Hydran CW's. Maybe a set of two each with early FF's, one of each?

But we have likely moved on from the Hydrans for now.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Sunday, September 20, 2026 - 01:12 pm: Edit

>It appears as if the images for each Borak collection are swapped around

Whoops. I'll correct that.

The turrets are part of the models. We were able to orient them to keep the full length of the barrels.

Would you like them separate? The turrets measure roughly 3.5mm x 3.5-4mm. They are going to be tricky to mount but I might be able to split them. The turrets would have to be on supports to preserve and ship them where all models so far are free of supports when shipped.

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Horsemen and Travelers are in the Special Ships (printed, likely to sneak into Cycle 4 but there were issues with some of the models) and Legacy Cruisers (not yet released - would release shortly after the Specials).

By Greg Ernest (Gernest) on Sunday, September 20, 2026 - 04:34 pm: Edit

Thank you, Dave.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 11:15 am: Edit

Wait, those are late war ships! I guess when the Gorn finally arrive they bring their best.


Now available at Star Fleet Models:

7000 Gorn Fleet Refitted Core Collection - DN, BCH, BC, CL, DD, FF

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Thursday, October 01, 2026 - 06:18 pm: Edit

Cool. When will we see the Lyran DN, BCH, and BC classes?

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Thursday, October 01, 2026 - 06:48 pm: Edit

When we come to eat you.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Thursday, October 01, 2026 - 11:38 pm: Edit

The Lyran DN and BC are in the Core fleet. The BCH doesn't look to have been released as a 7000 series but I might be missing it. That is the Hellcat, right?

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Friday, October 02, 2026 - 01:10 am: Edit

Dave sorry i had a filter on.

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Friday, October 02, 2026 - 01:13 am: Edit

It is the Hellcat. I'm not sure how you well show the extra two APR, two Batteries, and two tractors with mech links*, in the 7000 scale.

*If you mold in gunboats that would show the tractors, I suppose.

By Greg Ernest (Gernest) on Wednesday, October 07, 2026 - 01:24 pm: Edit

When might we see the classic unrefined Gorn?

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, October 07, 2026 - 03:41 pm: Edit

As far as I'm aware, the 1:7000 Gorn always had the scale-like details (back in the days of Shapeways).

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Wednesday, October 07, 2026 - 06:20 pm: Edit

They did unscaled versions of the Gorns at 7000. I have a fleet of them.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, October 07, 2026 - 08:33 pm: Edit

I stand corrected.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Friday, October 09, 2026 - 10:46 pm: Edit

Shapeways 1.0 had a number of "parallel" fleet options for certain Alpha Octant star fleets, design-wise.

As noted above, one of these was to offer Gorn ships in both "classic" (Starline 2400 style) and "Mongoose" (Starline 2500 style) designs.

Another was for the Hawk Series Romulans: those could be found in both "classic" and "Mongoose" iterations - of which I very much preferred the latter, personally-speaking!

That said, some of these iterative steps were more useful for larger scales of ship than is possible at 7000 scale. For example: if one were looking for a Lyran ship with pronounced hull panels back on Shapeways 1.0, as opposed to the "classic" smooth-hull designs also to have been found there at that time, it perhaps made more sense to get them in 1:3788, 1:3125, or 1:2500 scale instead.

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In any case, there is still a long way to go, in terms of getting through the back catalogue of Shapeways 1.0 designs.

I look forward to seeing how things continue to unfold this time around!

By Greg Ernest (Gernest) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - 11:25 pm: Edit

Things must be going well with the new store. With previous orders Dave got them out within a couple days. It's been a week now with no shipping notice. That was back before the Lyrans hit.

He must be busy! No rush on my part.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - 11:43 pm: Edit

We should have the unscaled Gorn out this cycle!

Sorry about the week delay on shipping Greg. Your order came in with a 'pending' from the payment processor which looks to just have been a software hiccup. I'll get those out soon.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 11:43 pm: Edit

"Admiral Doolittle, we've never sent fleets to such distances. Everyone is saying it is impossible!"

"It isn't going to be easy and we're going to have to test it out to make sure it works, but the calculations are sound. Every fleet, every distance, every country that eBay International Shipping services. We're going global."

Star Fleet Models: Shipping fleets via special arrangement and eBay International Shipping by 10/31/26.

These fleets will ship to an eBay location within the US. eBay will then ship them to international locations in compliance with international laws, VAT rules, and tariffs. It is possible additional restrictions will be applied by eBay. We expect the cost will be on the order of $40 per fleet owing to eBay fees and shipping. Additional fees might apply but there will be an estimator on eBay.

This program will be in testing at the end of October. We will have a system for checking out on our website where the order will be set up. A listing for that order will be made on eBay. The purchase will then be made on eBay and be subject to eBay rules.

Yeah it's a bit awkward but it follows all the rules. The big companies apparently play by different ones than smaller companies do.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 03:24 am: Edit

Now available at Star Fleet Models:

Gorn Reinforcements:

7000 Series Gorn Core Fleet (unrefit/smooth)

Time to let slip the dogs of war:

7000 Series Carnivon Core Fleet

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 03:07 pm: Edit

David has 33 sets available and more coming. Good job, David!

Jean is looking for some of the "lost" files. They aren't lost, but it's not obvious where they are filed. Stuff was coming in at furious rates back in the early days of Shapeways and the greatest failure of my company is the non-standard file names. You can find the missing Tholian PC under:

Tholian PC
Tholian ship
Tholian corvette
Tholian TV ship
Tholian patrol ship
Tholian patrol cutter
THPC
TH-PC
TH-corvette

and it might be in any of a dozen folders. Searching for file names on a PC is problem enough but when thousands of files came in so fast no one could remember what should logically get filed where, and nervous fingers on a wonky mouse could accidentally drop a Tholian ship in the Kzinti folder, things aren't always where they should be, and are rarely in the first place you look.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 08:58 pm: Edit

Note also that if Jean cannot find the requested ships right away (she will in time) I'd rather David be doing something rather than nothing.

By Greg Ernest (Gernest) on Friday, October 30, 2026 - 10:30 am: Edit

Thanks again to David for the recent orders! Everything arrived well and look great!

By Sean Schoonmaker (Schoon) on Thursday, November 05, 2026 - 03:00 pm: Edit

@David

Do you have a rough roadmap of what comes next, or is it up in the air depending on what comes to you?

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Friday, November 06, 2026 - 01:44 am: Edit

@Greg - glad to hear it. Thanks for your orders!

@Sean - it depends primarily on the models that are tracked down. Right now I'm working on general models (FRD out shortly), finishing up the Gorn, then doing ISC and Andromedan. That list can be interrupted if the Tholians or Kzinti BB files are located.

By David Bostwick (Zarquon) on Friday, November 06, 2026 - 10:01 am: Edit

Is there any intention to do the larger scales?