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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2021 5:17:53 GMT -7
Greetings all.
I'm starting work on the Polar lights 1000 scale kit. Have a number of weapons upgrades and additions planned, one possibility is a mega phaser array. I haven't quite finalized that as I can't seem to find an aesthetically pleasing place to put them. I've been looking through Jakill I&II, but a lot of those look like they were stuck on as an after thought and I prefer something integrated.
I have seen a lot of really good designs here was hoping for some suggestions.
Thanks.
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Post by JAFisher44 on Jul 4, 2021 0:47:47 GMT -7
I've never been a fan of mega phasers. The only reason they exist at all is because ILM decided to show phasers firing from the wrong location on the Reliant model.
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Post by starcruiser on Jul 4, 2021 9:10:53 GMT -7
Yep - and based on what they did - they were anything but "Mega" phasers...
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Post by thescreamingswede on Jul 4, 2021 9:51:10 GMT -7
I've never been a fan of mega phasers. The only reason they exist at all is because ILM decided to show phasers firing from the wrong location on the Reliant model. That may be, but at the time I reasoned it to be because the Reliant was more attuned to scientific study and didn't have the room to spare for conventionally mounted weapons. If they were meant to be mega phasers you're right, they seemed woefully ineffective. From a design standpoint a mega phaser should be bulky and very structurally heavy for the potential damage output. I would also make their field of fire very restrictive. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2021 11:26:49 GMT -7
Relevance?
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Post by JAFisher44 on Jul 4, 2021 12:41:09 GMT -7
Ok, sorry if I wasn't clear. You already seemed to be waffling because you couldn't find a place to put them. My suggestion is, "Don't add mega phasers." The post above is the reasons why.
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Post by trynda1701 on Jul 4, 2021 16:00:06 GMT -7
I've never been a fan of mega phasers. The only reason they exist at all is because ILM decided to show phasers firing from the wrong location on the Reliant model. That may be, but at the time I reasoned it to be because the Reliant was more attuned to scientific study and didn't have the room to spare for conventionally mounted weapons. If they were meant to be mega phasers you're right, they seemed woefully ineffective. From a design standpoint a mega phaser should be bulky and very structurally heavy for the potential damage output. I would also make their field of fire very restrictive. That's what I reasoned for Reliant, even though you could see normal phaser ball turrets on her. The design only sort of works with a rollbar attached, they look ugly by themselves on various fan designs. For certain designs (like Reliant), I decided they were just a type of combined bank for extended arc fire, and came up with the acrynomn Multi Emission Grouped Array! Not heavier than FH-11s in FASA terms, just multiarc. Although that could have given the FASA Reliant with 2 F/P/A and 2 F/S/A arcs!  It's a pity the original studio miniature design plans were approved upside down, because it had smaller torpedo pods at the low ends of the struts supporting the upper engine nacelles, with no connecting rollbar! So the redesign is what gave us the feature than fanon dubbed megaphasers! |
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Post by atolm on Jul 5, 2021 15:38:08 GMT -7
When I design my TOS ISS Enterprise I added "canon" on her belly:  And I carried it over to the torpedo launcher here:  |
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Post by rarcher on Jul 8, 2021 13:35:49 GMT -7
Nice drawings! I'm always so jealous of the talent on here! Megaphaser debate aside they got nice clean lines
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2021 16:46:50 GMT -7
When I design my TOS ISS Enterprise I added "canon" on her belly: And I carried it over to the torpedo launcher here: A cannon seems appropriate.
Nice work!
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Post by jeffwright on Oct 17, 2021 1:44:23 GMT -7
Love that secondary hull
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