"Starship Saladin" by Raymar3d
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Description
A heavily customized photograph of a kit-bashed AMT model of the Enterprise, converted to a Destroyer-Class ship from the Franz Joseph Technical Manual, published in the 1970's.
Model was built 18 years ago, and I'm about to finish her in 3d, where she'll be featured in an upcoming fanfilm.
Comments welcome!
Comments (8)
Cool! I always liked that design.
nice foto of a classic design.... always hoped that the TV shows would feature this class of ship, sadly no.
To boldy go where no man has gone before!
Very good looking starship you've got there. Nice work putting it together. Looks great.
this is a case of 'canon/non-canon', in that one of the folks who worked on the show came up with this (and a freighter, and a dreadnaught) for a Star Trek War Games (well, it wound up in one, anyways...;). Roddenberry came up with some 'rules' for the ships, nacelles, etc., that 'disqualified' this one (no odd numbers of nacelles). Still, what might have been. Used to have one of these as a game piece.
"This is a case of 'canon/non-canon', in that one of the folks who worked on the show came up with this (and a freighter, and a dreadnaught) for a Star Trek War Games (well, it wound up in one, anyways...;). Roddenberry came up with some 'rules' for the ships, nacelles, etc., that 'disqualified' this one (no odd numbers of nacelles). Still, what might have been. Used to have one of these as a game piece." Actually, since Rodenberry signed off on the Starfleet Technical Manual, and it appears on the monitors on the bridge of the Enterprise in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in my opinion, the destroyer is a canon vessel. Either way, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, there is an episode called, "Parallels" that has the plot that there are untold millions of parallel universes, not just the "Mirror" universe. That means just about anything that is inconsistent in Star Trek can easily be explained as a different quantum reality. Or, we could simply say that all ships have dual-core engines. Either way, she'll fly onscreen soon enough. The Starfleet Technical Manual predates all the other blueprint/tech manuals that have been published, and I embrace it as canon. :)
That's a cool ship. It would be nice to have seen more variety of ships in the original Star Trek. 5+!
nice version.....I like this!! :-)