Federation Commander

dderidex

Those of you who follow ADB on Facebook have *probably* all seen these already, but I'd done some texture/painting over the Mongoose renders to get a feel for what they might look like as 'finished ships'.

Results as such:

Ravenhull · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject:

Great work there. And while I'll probably do my Hawks in classic Rom dirty white, they do look good in your gemstone green. I especially like how the Rom Eagle looked on the beak of the heavy Hawk there.
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dderidex · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:48 pm Post subject:

OGOPTIMUS · Captain Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 979

Awesome artwork. I never really liked Roms in green, but that looks really great!

Awesome model/mini! What scale is that?
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dderidex · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:47 am Post subject:

AFAIR, the FASA miniatures were 1/3900 scale.

But that might be fudging things a bit, as that would make it even smaller than the original Starline 2400 minis (at vaguely 1/3788 according to the recent blog post)...and I don't think the FASA ships were.

In any case...much, MUCH smaller than the new 2500s (1/3200).

Scoutdad · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:50 pm Post subject:

Actually, I have some ofthe old FASA ships in my minis box. I use the D7 for a DX and the CA for a CX.

thay are indeed a bit smaller than the ST2200/2400's , so I'd say 1:3900 is correct.

Which really makes that paint job all the more impressive.
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OGOPTIMUS · Captain Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 979

Yeah. I was just wondering what scale that was since those details are awesome! Even more awesome since it's the 1/3900 mini.

I didn't know that the actual mini had different nacelles than the D7. I know that the line art does, but I've never seen a Stormbird, all the ones I have are the D7. Cool that the nacelles match (they look like the ones on the Winged Defender).
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dderidex · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject:

trynda1701 · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject:

Actually, that Stormbird isn't the FASA 1/3900 mini, but this one here...

http://tykensrift.blogspot.com/search/label/Romulan

... which does NOT detract from the cool standard of modelling skill on the mini. Scale is 1/1400. Knew I had seen it somewhere before.
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OGOPTIMUS · Captain Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 979

Hang on, I found that guy's website. This is a 1400 scale D7 that he made some custom nacelles and decals for.

It still looks awesome. It's just not 1/3900 scale.

EDIT: Oops! Double post. My page didn't update. Hmmmm.
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dderidex · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:57 am Post subject:

It's definitely about the best paint job of a 'Stormbird' I'd ever seen - didn't realize the scale was quite so big on it!

Still, that's basically the inspiration for what I'll be aiming at for the KRs from ADB/Mongoose. While I'm not a huge fan of much that came out of FASA's time with the Trek license, the paint job they proposed for the Romulan-crewed Klingon ships was a real gem.