[ If you have any trouble accessing the kit on Thingivee, I've also published it to a Google Drive location: ] This is the thirteenth expaion parts kit meant to complement my original Star Trek Cotitution Class Parts Kit. This is the second kit covering ships from the FASA Federation Ship Recognition Manual for the old FASA Star Trek tactical combat board game. The fit FASA Federation kit can be found here: 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 for your kitbashing enjoyment.
This kit supports the following FASA ship classes: Anton class cruiser The FASA veion of a TOS Miranda.
Brenton class cruiser A cheaper cruiser designed to supplement the refit cotitutio, this is one of the most controveial of the FASA desig, due to it’s inexplicable “stretched” saucer seeming pasted on top of a larger hull section.
Durrett class cruiser A light cruiser with a single nacelle, a goofy long neck and a truncated Miranda body.
Kiev class frigate Another shortened Miranda-ish hull with a weapo pod.
Lenthal class destroyer In FASA Trek, Andoria had a thing for protected center mounted nacelles, and ships they had a hand in designing showed this. The Lenthal features a strange teardrop shaped extended hull.
Nelson class scout FASA’s veion of Franz Joseph’s single nacelle Saladin class scout. The only difference being the Nelson has two necks connecting the saucer and nacelle itead of the single one.
Ranger class scout One of my favorite FASA desig, the Ranger is a small scout with a simple and unique saucer not used in other desig.
Remora class escort / Charger class destroyer The Remora class features large pontoo that are not given a reason for in the game. This ship was the cover girl of the FASA Ship Recognition Manual. The Charger is an uprated destroyer that uses the same hull as the Remora.
Thufir class destroyer Another Andorian design the Thufir features two outboard pontoo protecting the nacelles.
Wilkeon class destroyer A fairly basic two-nacelle variant with no secondary hull.
I suspect those not already familiar with FASA Trek may get their mellow a little hahed by some of these desig. To be honest, I’m not really 100% with some of them, but I did want to try and reproduce them relatively faithfully to the original desig. That said, most of these models heavily rely on Brad Torgeon’s redraws which fix many of the major issues with the oft-questionable original FASA source art. You can find these redraws, as well as additional information about the FASA game, at his site: the Star Trek Stahip Tactical Combat Simulator On-Line Database & Archive. 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. See the Blender fundamentals tutorials playlist to get started. 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 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. Note to save Thingivee processing time on useless preview images, I'm only including ship STLs separately. The parts STL files are all compiled into a single ZIP file: . Parts Part Description
Combined saucer and secondary hull.
Port warp nacelle.
Port pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Starboard pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Port warp nacelle.
Combined saucer and secondary hull.
Port warp nacelle.
Port pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Starboard pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Port warp nacelle.
Combined saucer and secondary hull.
Center warp nacelle.
Pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Weapo pod mounted on pylon.
Combined saucer and secondary hull.
Port warp nacelle.
Port pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Starboard pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Starboard warp nacelle.
Neck connecting weapo pod to hull.
Weapo pod.
Port warp nacelle.
Starboard warp nacelle.
Saucer.
Secondary hull.
Combined port and starboard pylo connecting nacelle and saucer.
Warp nacelle.
Saucer.
Port warp nacelle.
Port pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Starboard pylon connecting hull and nacelle.
Starboard warp nacelle.
Saucer.
Pylon connecting center nacelle to the main hull.
Warp nacelle.
Port “pontoon”.
Starboard “pontoon”.
Saucer.
Secondary hull to which all other components attach.
Combined saucer and secondary hull.
Port warp nacelle.
Starboard warp nacelle.
Port “pontoon”.
Starboard “pontoon”.
Saucer.
Top nacelle.
Pylo connecting top nacelle and the saucer.
Pylo connecting bottom nacelle and the saucer.
Bottom nacelle. Combined ship STLs These files provide sample ships generated using the parts included in this kit. Part Description
Anton class cruiser
Brenton class cruiser
Durrett class cruiser
Kiev class frigate
Lenthal class destroyer
Nelson class scout
Ranger class scout
Remora class escort / Charger class destroyer
Thufir class destroyer
Wilkeon class destroyer Blender files Blender source files are also included in the file . This ZIP 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.