Ships of the Starfleet Museum: Romulan ships of the Earth-Romulan War

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[Note: This kit is also available at a Google Drive mirror location: <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1brE5vx5s3o2dKDtL0iPj4oOlXvF4iVHO?usp=share_link>] This kit aims to provide printable ships and kit-bashable parts supporting designs from [Masao Okazaki’s Starfleet Museum](https://www.starfleet-museum.org/) website. Going back to the late 1990’s, Masao offered fans an original take on Star Trek history and ship design between the Vulcan first contact and the original TV series. It featured a logical technological progression from the early years of warp drive, through the Earth-Romulan War, and on to the early Federation era. Star Trek Enterprise was produced after this time and contradicted much of this timeline, but the Starfleet Museum remains a fascinating and compelling take on Trek Lore. My intention with this latest kit is to cover the [ships of the Earth-Romulan War](https://www.starfleet-museum.org/romulan-war.htm). This is the third and final kit in this series covering Masao’s Romulan ships seen during the war. The previous two kits covered United Earth Stellar Navy’s (UESN) ship designs [[part 1](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BYPim7e8uL_T4dufwvlEwkRg8SV4jorT?usp=share_link)][[part 2](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xouVS8J5xkaopgXg6keTeMkhf9JaIbyl?usp=share_link)]. As with my previous kits, these ships are meant to be compatible with all of my previously published starship parts kits. [](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1NOBwlir2T_oqcjFMZFiUp2Ygz3pQ0Tlh) See my [Cults3d Profile](https://cults3d.com/en/users/Captain_Mojo/creations) for the full list of parts kits I’ve released so far. Each of these kits includes combined ships and ship parts STL files, along with blender source files used to create them. Ship files should be ready to print. Part files are provided so you can import into your 3d modelling software of choice to combine and modify to easily create your own ship designs. All parts are meant to be cross-compatible between kits. [](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1kNYihcIrKcIv9P5p8fsPPwqPkUpIB2f7) Included Ships -------------- This kit includes the following ships: ### [UESN reporting name “Cabbage”](https://www.starfleet-museum.org/romulan-cruisers.htm) “Cabbage” class cruisers were the main Romulan combatant during their offensives in the first half of the war. These heavy ships were in general more powerful than most UESN ships until the deployment of matter / anti-matter powered ships. Cabbages sported a powerful plasma cannon supported by multiple offensive and defensive missile systems. [](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1o04lrjcVemZjBvGTR5Hlb6wz0y3uh9iG) ### [UESN reporting name “Chowder”](https://www.starfleet-museum.org/romulan-cruisers.htm) “Chowder” class ships were designed as a defensive cruiser to counter the increasingly successful UESN offensives in the second half of the war, particularly the Yorktown class carrier groups. Usually operating in wolf packs of three ships, their ambush techniques would attempt to either bombard targets with missile barrages at long range, or get close enough to use their devastating plasma cannon. [](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=14iBvIycOJ5HWthtuDFppz03ujANNT-pG) ### [UESN reporting name “Clavicle”](https://www.starfleet-museum.org/romulan-cruisers.htm) Late in the war the Romulans modified the Chowder spaceframe to make a ship with a significantly more powerful fusion reactor and weapons loadout, with the tradeoff of shorter operational range. The Clavicle was more effective against UESN m/am powered ships than previous designs, but came too late in the war and in too few numbers to make a significant difference in the war. [](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1GFIgfSy6Wte6M670HycHav9fFGIR1KBG) Zip Files --------- Zip files are included in the following google drive locations: - [Earth-Romulan-War_Romulan-ship-stls.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9pzNHkyNKMOUl2YQEJTUe9BG7POq3Aq/view?usp=share_link) – Contains the combined, ready to print, ship files. - [Earth-Romulan-War_Romulan-parts-stls.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNza-gOClGs3Y61osRJHE9LFYrbWkKMW/view?usp=share_link) – Contains all of the individual part STL files used to create the combined ship files. - [Earth-Romulan-War_Romulan-blender-files.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jRLQ-vMEI1UP7tRhRDXIfJDQgQfP30_P/view?usp=share_link) – Contains the source blender files used to generate the parts, as well as files with the parts assembled as used to generate the combined ship files. Notes on scaling and working with Blender ----------------------------------------- My target scale for all source files and output STL files is 1:1000, However, I generally recommend 1:2500 or smaller given the detail level of the model. Although these files have not been extensively 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 modelers "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 [Blender](https://www.blender.org/download/) 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 instructables tutorial](https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Use-Blender-271-Basics/). You can use File -\> Import -\> Stl (.stl) and File -\> Export -\> Stl (.stl) to load or save STL files in blender. **Note:** This kit was built using Blender 3.1. ### 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 errors that may cause issues with slicing programs. I recommend any STL files you create are checked using a program like [Netfabb Basic free edition](https://github.com/3DprintFIT/netfabb-basic-download/releases/tag/v7.4.0). 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. File manifest ------------- ### Parts The [Earth-Romulan-War_Romulan-parts-stls.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mNza-gOClGs3Y61osRJHE9LFYrbWkKMW/view?usp=share_link) file contains all of the part STL model files listed below. Note that part files are not meant to be printed on their own, but instead they are meant to be combined to create new ship designs that can then be output as joined files and printed. **Part** - **Description** cabbage-impulse-section.stl - Rear reactor hull and impulse engine. cabbage-main-hull.stl - Main hull. cabbage-warp-modules.stl - Warp modules. chowder-impulse-section.stl - Rear reactor hull and impulse engine. chowder-main-hull.stl - Main hull. chowder-warp-module.stl - Warp modules. chowder-wings.stl - Wing hull section. clavicle-impulse-section.stl - Rear reactor hull and impulse engine. clavicle-main-hull.stl - Main hull. clavicle-warp-modules.stl - Warp modules. clavicle-wings.stl - Wing hull section. ### Combined ship STLs The [Earth-Romulan-War_Romulan-ship-stls.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9pzNHkyNKMOUl2YQEJTUe9BG7POq3Aq/view?usp=share_link) file provides the printable ships created using the parts included in this kit. **Part** - **Description** ship-cabbage.stl - Cabbage class cruiser. ship-chowder.stl - Chowder class cruiser. ship-clavicle.stl - Clavicle class cruiser. ### Blender files The [Earth-Romulan-War_Romulan-blender-files.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jRLQ-vMEI1UP7tRhRDXIfJDQgQfP30_P/view?usp=share_link) file contains parts files, containing the STL parts arranged as used in the sample ship designs, and parts source files, containing the raw blender objects used to create the parts. License ------- I'm releasing this under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) license. You're free to distribute and modify these files (even for commercial use), provided you attribute the creator and distribute your contributions under the same license. *Note: this license applies to the files released in this kit. The underlying designs are owned by Masao Okazaki and commercial use of those designs should get his permission.*