I changed the thread name, but kept everything on page 1 and 2 intact. To avoid confusing first time readers, I thought I had better explain the inconsistency between the thread title and the early posts.
We now return to your regularly scheduled program.....
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My decision as to what to enter remains open at present.
I have several ideas, but am limited to just one build.
The current top of the list would be a Gorn cruiser.
The Gorn have been, to date, poorly represented in anything other than gaming scale, and I like a challenge. But which design?
Here is the canon ship, from the remastered TOS episode Arena:
- Gorn - TOS.png (47.88 KiB) Viewed 2626 times
There is the FASA cruiser, which I have never seen built in any scale other than gaming:
- Gorn - FASA.png (103.23 KiB) Viewed 2626 times
Star Trek Online's Gorn ships are somewhat similar to FASA's vision, but more fleshed out:
I guess for me (and I am probably showing my age here), the iconic Gorn design is that from the old Star Fleet Battles game:
My first hurdle?
I sold all my gaming miniatures ages ago. I want my build to be as close to scale as possible, but the specs that I have found on the internet are all over the place.
I am hoping that someone still has a gaming mini of this ship, and can provide me with a measurement of the diameter of the pods (as accurately as possible). Also, maybe the overall length (discounting the engines)? I could take it from there, since the minis were a nominal 1:3700 scale. I just need a starting point from which to scale my working drawings.
If nothing is posted to this thread, I will see if I can find an old mini somewhere.
Barring that, I will switch to my secondary choice.
Hoping someone can help.
Fingers crossed....
