Guenther-class Dreadnought

[Griffworks]

This is my not-terribly-original kitbash of what I call the Guenther-class dreadnought, named for Todd Guenther of Starship Design, Federation Starship Recognition Chart, and Ships of the Star Fleet, Volume One fame. I used the Avenger-class MiniMecha from Thomas Models (basically, the Reliant) and the primary hull, an Indomitable secondary hull (also a TM MiniMecha kit), and the "neck"/nacelle assembly from a VA Miniatures Jenghiz-class destroyer. I cut the nacelle from the neck, inverted the neck and flattened the point where it slotted into a primary hull, then glued the nacelle back on top of that. I did a minor modification to the neck area, raising it up with some sheet stock to give better clearance for the shuttle bays, which I figure are some sort of fighter bays, with the secondary hull shuttle bay holding the bulk of the ships standard shuttlecraft.

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Under construction. I had a bad can of primer, so ended up stripping this and reapplying, IIRC. That was a lotta years ago! Notice that there's pink showing thru? Yeah, some of the kits that Thomas used to sell were pink, yellow, green, blue, etc... I guess that was batches of resin he was playing around with.

I really like this basic design with the Indomitable secondary hull. To my aesthetic tastes, it doesn't have but one unflattering angle, and that's not even all that bad when you view her bow-on. As with all things, YMMV!

I rationalize the two lower nacelles being LN-68's, while the upper nacelle is a LN-64 in that they don't have to all be the same type of nacelle in this configuration.

I'm going to attempt to replicate this in 1/1000 scale w/in the next couple of weeks.

[No Good modeler]

Pretty dang lovely. I totally missed the boat when it came the indomitable class. I have never seen one for sale but would love to get my hands on it.

I like what you did here, all the parts fit well and doesn't look kitbashy to me.

[trekriffic]

She looks formidable. The Miranda saucer works well for a dreadnought.

[mophius]

I did manage to get an Indomitable class a few weeks ago but have lost all my mojo and haven't done anything for the last couple of months.
It was a find off Facebook that someone was selling on behalf of someone else. Circumstances unknown on their part but was really fortunate for me that I managed to bag it.

[Griffworks]

Wow, thanks fellas! I appreciate the kind words. I didn't think she was anything all that special, really, tho was proud of my pretty simple kitbash. I'm looking forward to finally building this in 1/1000 scale. I intend to finish this one, get some decals made for it, then give it to Todd Guenther.

Thanks again!

[No Good modeler]

I did manage to get an Indomitable class a few weeks ago but have lost all my mojo and haven't done anything for the last couple of months.
It was a find off Facebook that someone was selling on behalf of someone else. Circumstances unknown on their part but was really fortunate for me that I managed to bag it.

Nice, you seem to always get the good finds! Haha