Note: Because Thingivee has had problems in the past, especially with including all files in a single zip, I’ve also posted these files to an alternative Google drive location. You can access that location here: This is the eighth expaion parts kit meant to complement my original Star Trek Cotitution Class Parts Kit, providing parts and ship models to support the Orion ships from the old FASA Star Trek role playing game. See my Thingivee Profile for the full list of parts kits I’ve released so far. All parts are meant to be cross-compatible between kits. This kit supports the following FASA Orion ship classes: Lightning blockade runner Wanderer blockade runner Dwarfstar freighter Swift Solaria slaver Aral blockade runner The FASA Star Trek RPG was very popular among us older Star Trek fa who came of age in the '80s and '90s. It lost its licee to produce Star Trek in 1988, seemingly because Gene Rodenberry, hot off of the success of TNG season 1, wanted to de-emphasize the military aspect of Starfleet, despite the abundance of uniforms, ranks, and 50-megaton matter-antimatter warheads that all his shows were chocked full of. FASA Trek provided a tremendous amount of background on a Trek univee that was, in many ways, more realistic and interesting than what Rodenberry and company wanted in TNG and later shows. Although much of this background has been supplanted by later official canon, the ships from this game remain popular among old-school fa. Notes on scaling and working with Blender My target scale for all source files and output STL files is 1:1000. Although these files have not been exteively tested through printing, they are intended to be resized to match common modelling and miniatures scales. Target scale Scale STL files to: Notes 1/3900 0.25641026 FASA miniature scale 1/3788 0.26399155 ADB Starline 2400 scale 1/3125 0.32 ADB Starline 2500 scale 1/2500 0.4 The Trek modele "Golden scale" 1/1600 0.625 TOS 3-Ship Set scale 1/1400 0.714285714 Common resin model scale 1/650 1.538461538 Modelling scale 1/537 1.862197393 Common scale for TMP models 1/350 2.857142857 Large scale Blender is free, which to be honest was the primary factor in my decision to learn it. There are many fine video and text tutorials available online if you're interested in learning more. For a basic tutorial on moving and joining objects in Blender(which should be the minimum you need to know when working with these parts), see this itructables tutorial. You can use File -> Import -> Stl (.stl) and File -> Export -> Stl (.stl) to load or save STL files in blender. Note: These kits were built using Blender 2.8. Post-processing STL output Although all of the STL files included have been tested as valid watertight meshes, joining the parts together and exporting new STL files can introduce small erro that may cause issues with slicing programs. I recommend any STL files you create are checked using a program like Netfabb Basic free edition. Doing a simple "Close All Holes" repair has fixed most of the issues I've run into so far. If you do run into issues with mesh quality, please let me know. Parts list Unlike the Thingivee veion, I’ve posted a separate folder in this Drive location for each ship. Iide each folder you’ll find a zip file containing the Blender files, part and ship STL files for the design. The following lists provide a summary of the included parts form all the zip files. For the majority of items, the mesh origin has been set so that when you import these objects into your 3D editor of choice, they are positioned as they would be on the sample ships provided. Parts Part Description Rear hull including cargo and shuttlebays, and impulse unit. Front hull command module and neck. Port warp nacelle. Pylo connecting both nacelles to hull. Starboard warp nacelle. Undelung hull module. Main hull containing command decks, shuttlba, and cargo area. Forward hull module. Undelung hull module including impulse unit. Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. Port warp nacelle. Starboard warp nacelle. Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. Port and starboard disruptor units. Main hull including integrated nacelle pylongs Port warp nacelle. Starboard warp nacelle. Hull body without any hull details or greeblies. Hull body with details. Lower warp nacelle. Pylo connecting lower nacelle with hull. Pylo connecting upper nacelle with hull. Upper warp nacelle. Port warp nacelle. Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. Starboard warp nacelle. Forward saucer module containing command decks. Aft hull including impulse module. Port weapo pod. Starboard weapo pod. Pylon connecting the port weapo pod to the secondary hull. Pylon connecting the starboard weapo pod to the secondary hull. Combined ship STLs These files provide sample ships generated using the parts included in this kit. Part Description Aral class blockade runner. Dwarfstar class freighter. Lightning class blockade runner. Swift Solaria class slaver. Wanderer class blockade runner Blender files Blender files are included in the zip file: This file contai two blender files for each design: a parts file, containing the STL parts arranged as used in the sample ship desig, and a parts source file, containing the raw blender objects used to create the parts. Licee I'm releasing this under the Creative Commo Attribution-ShareAlike licee. You're free to distribute and modify these files (even for commercial use), provided you attribute the creator and distribute your contributio under the same licee.