Scratchbuilds

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Sun May 29, 2011 10:30 pm

An old cruiser squadron.

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:49 pm

I know that it's a bit out of scale,but here's an attempt at a CR to accompany my OCA.(30 min build and paint)

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Tue May 31, 2011 4:29 pm

Does anyone know what the FLA destroyer and frigates look like?

Savedfromwhat · Post by **Savedfromwhat** » Tue May 31, 2011 7:26 pm

That OCA is really awesome. what did you do to make it?

Nerroth · Post by **Nerroth** » Tue May 31, 2011 8:20 pm

The OCA looks nice, but the equivalent ships the Federal Republic use are a little different. (The Armored Cruiser (CLA) has 2 standard photons, both FA, and 2 light photons, LF+L and RF+R. The larger Battlecruiser (BC) has 3 standard photons, LF+L, FA and RF+R, and the same LF+L/RF+R lights as the CLA on either side.)

The FRA frigate looks pretty similar to the Fed police ship, though the art Rick did for the playtest ship card has separate launchers for the prow light photons.

The Destroyer is a hybrid design; it has a stretched version of the FF's secondary hull, but with a Klingon F5C's boom and warp engines.

(If I ever get around to painting my own FRA ships, I would use a mostly similar scheme to Star Fleet, only swapping the red with blue, and the arrowheads with Auroran stars. Not sure what scheme I'd use for the Throne of Ozymondas; but, in my mind, something reminiscent of ancient Egypt seems to be in order...)

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Tue May 31, 2011 11:02 pm

Savedfromwhat,there are some build pics at the bottom of page 6.

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:40 am

Were you thinking of something along the lines of this Nerroth?

trynda1701 · Post by **trynda1701** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:27 pm

Nice scratchbuilds as always, semp!

And stop showing off with building models in 30 mins, man! lol!

Nerroth · Post by **Nerroth** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:30 pm

Looking good, though I'd sooner go with white rather than grey for the cruiser's hull.

I like your choices with the Throne. In my mind, I was thinking of going with a sandey-stoney scheme, almost like the kind of thing you'd see at Abu Simbel. Or maybe with some white segemtns, like the paintings on the inside of a royal tomb. Or something. Not sure yet.

But then, if I actually did more than talk (well, type) on the matter, I'd have more of a leg to stand on...

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:51 pm

I wasn't too happy with the Throne,as she was too wide and slim,so here's the Throne MkII.

Nerroth · Post by **Nerroth** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:43 pm

Much better!

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:45 pm

Ok ,so the OCA model doesn't quite match the existing drawing,but being based on the OCA SSD,she does already have quad photon launchers. I may later on add the prow launchers,but I'm quite happy with her as she stands at the moment. Now as for the FF's,I don't have any of the official POL corvettes,so I'll utilize my own version of the POL instead,which looking different from the real one,will help to differentiate the Auroran POL from the Alpha one.

Darkwing · Post by **Darkwing** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:48 pm

I do like that OCA, especially with the blue stripes. Awesome work!

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:38 pm

I've now painted up one of my own POL's as a FRA Frigate,and as you can see,she's very markedly different from an Alpha Quad POL.
OOPS,quite a lot of paint smudges I see,ah well,that's middle aged eyesight for you.

trynda1701 · Post by **trynda1701** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:10 pm

Nice little squadron there!