This class vessel is contemporary with the Reliant and refit Enterprise designs and contains 8 photon torpedo tubes (4 forward and 4 aft on the secondary hull), 2 forward and 2 rear firing megaphasers, and 13 standard phaser banks. It has a truncated Reliant-type extended primary hull containing two shuttlebays with each having an aft extending landing platform. The secondary hull also has a third shuttlebay in the familiar location. The design is from the Starship Prototypes book from the 1980's and is somewhat different from the starship in that book. It's not a perfect replica of the Starstalker design, but a potential improved or refit version.

Here's a link to how it appears in the book.

The Model

The primary hull and engines are heavily modified from the Ertl/AMT Reliant kit. The secondary hull and engine supports are scratchbuilt with some exceptions (i.e. the dorsal neck is from the refit Enterprise kit, but has been extended). The model was painted with standard testors enamels and acrylics by spraycan, airbrush, and handbrush. The aztek paneling on the primary hull was completed with the aid of Walker Enterprise's Aztek Templates and elsewhere with frisket and masking tape. The model was weathered slightly here and there with pastel chalks. Excellent (as usual) custom decals provided by JTGraphics were added to a few Reliant kit decals, some from spares, and some custom decals of my own.

It was a lot of fun to build, but it has taken me over a year since I committed to the design and I'm glad to be finished.

Image: Ventral aft

Image: Ventral

Image: Bow on

Image: Forward starboard

Image: Saucer aft

Image: Aft port

Image: Port

Image: Forward port

Image: Ventral flyby

Image: Mounted to base

Image: Climbing

Image: Dorsal plan