Dreadnaught by Kixum
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This is a concept of a dreadnaught which I've only seen published in the Starfleet technical manual.
There are only three isometric drawings of this design and very little details. I scavenged most of it off of my Enterprise model (hence all the same windows and stuff).
Thanks for looking!
-Kix
Comments (13)
I remember this one from the manual. Excellent work.
Don't you wonder what they needed with a pair of parabolic dishes, five stories high? I mean, haven't these guys heard of micro electronics? Seriously, though it's a coll rendering in all three cases.
Well, it's actually from a 'war game' done in the early 70's..some of these were 'concept' ships done by Bob Justaman (I think). There was also a destroyer (1 nacelle). They were plastic models about 2" long, stood on clear plastic stands. Later on, they came up with a code for 'canon' ships, which 'eliminated' a lot of models like this (1 rule- even numbers of nacelles )yet, in the final episode, what did they show up with?..;) great work, very detailed. Keep it up.
Ah the old Federation Class dreadnaught I remember it very well.:) Great work man if you are going to do a movie update version the third pylon is still in the same place but the two outboard nacells are attached by a pylon that is at a straight 90 degrees level.
Isn't it great to have your own Federation construction kit excellent modeling.
Franz Joseph would be proud! You do make the best Star Trek vessels of anybody her at Renderosity.
I am disappointed that spacecraft are going back from shirtsleeve and walking about to the chaise lounge in real life. Fictitious craft have even more incentive to pull the imagination into a lively creative spring.
I remember this one from the Tech Manual, too. Nice job. I don't remember the shuttle bay doors being up front on this one, but it has probably been 20 years since I looked at the original Tech Manual, too. Great modelling!
Nice model.
Excellent Kix ;) Cool light !
Very nice, indeed. I remember thinking how goofy the secondary hull looked on the dreadnaught, no swooping curve toward the rear like the elegant indent in the Enterprise. You've duplicated the design, as best as I remember, and it makes sense that the details would be similar to the Constitution class ship. Very cool, indeed.
"Franz Joseph Designs" was the civilian hobby of a man who was one of the designers of the FB-111 swingwing jet. His kids were into STAR TREK and he got drawn into it, using his engineering design skills to recreate the "reality" of the series. His first project was "The Star Trek Blueprints", a groundbreakiing project that detailed ever single floor of the USS Enterprise. His followup was the trade paperback STARFLEET ACADEMY TECHNICAL MANUAL, which covers everything from basic uniform designs to multi-layer chess sets to additional starship designs. Franz Joseph kept his designs simple, basically re-arranging the components of the Enterprise class to make single engine frigates, twin-engine tugs, and of course the heavily armed, heavily powered Dreadnaught. Apparently Roddenberry detested the Dreadnaught ("Star Fleet is a SCIENTIFIC organization, not a military one!" he reportedly yelled) and probably pressured Rick Sternbach to include in his STAR TREK STAR FLIGHT CHRONOLOGY the ill-fated Tritium, the first and only three-engine starship andn the comment that three engines cannot work because of problems with engine harmonics. Hwoever, the editors of the TREK paperbnack series were more open-minded and gave this ship the title role in DREADNAUGHT, in which the Federation's newest, most powerful weapon has just been hijacked. The Dreadnaught and other Franz Joseph designs were incorporated into the Trek tactical war game STAR FLEET BATTLES, which in turn led to the lead minatures Pakled refered to.
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/index-bp.html Full deck plans of the Dreadnought. I for one, loved the Tech Manual, and all the designs in it. And even though I really am gratefull to Gene Rodenberry for creating Star Trek, if he didn't like the Dreadnought, or the destroyers, he shouldn't have signed the blueprints on them, or the tech manual. Next Gen guys came along and decided to be revisionist and change all the NCC numbers, but as far as I'm concerned this book is canon. Ships from it are seen onscreen in Star Trek II and are mentioned at Epsilon 9, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This Dreadnought ROCKS! And, is extremely accurate! Excellent work!