Tholian and FASA Gorn Ships: Star Trek starship parts kit expansion #9

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Note: Because Thingiverse 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: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xkXdFO4IwKOYczoLv9pBYE3Y6H8bhwub?usp=sharing This is the ninth expansion parts kit meant to complement my original Star Trek Constitution Class Parts Kit, providing parts and ship models to support the Gorn ships from the old FASA Star Trek role playing game, with the Tholian ship from the TOS episode “The Tholian Web” as a bonus. See my Thingiverse 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: This kit supports the following FASA Gorn ship classes: SS-3 Destroyer MA-12 Light Cruiser MD-8 Cruiser Vovossa Monitor BH-2 Battleship It also supports the small Tholian Webslinger ship from TOS. The FASA Star Trek RPG was very popular among us older Star Trek fans who came of age in the '80s and '90s. It lost its license 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 universe 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 fans. Official Paramount/CBS has never given the Gorn much love in terms of ship design. FASA didn’t do too much better, only giving them a handful of designs for players to work with. 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 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 (25.6%) | FASA miniature scale | | 1/3788 | 0.26399155 (26.4%) | ADB Starline 2400 scale | | 1/3125 | 0.32 (32%) | ADB Starline 2500 scale | | 1/2500 | 0.4 (40%) | The Trek modelers "Golden scale" | | 1/1600 | 0.625 (62.5%) | TOS 3-Ship Set scale | | 1/1400 | 0.714285714 (71%) | Common resin model scale | | 1/650 | 1.538461538 (153%) | Modelling scale | | 1/537 | 1.862197393 (186%) | Common scale for TMP models | | 1/350 | 2.857142857 (285%) | Large scale | Note that the Tholian ship is very small, so may be inappropriate for smaller scales 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 instructables 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 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. 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 some of the ship designs have small weapons that may cause problems with small scale prints, or be better handled in other ways in large-scale prints. For these cases I’ve included a “no-canon” version of the parts and ship models that removes these pieces. Parts | Part | Description | |-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------| | bh2-dorsal-weapons-pod-no-canons.stl | Top weapons pod without small weapon details. | | bh2-dorsal-weapons-pod.stl | Top weapons pod. | | bh2-main-hull-no-canons.stl | Main hull without small weapon details. | | bh2-main-hull.stl | Main hull. | | bh2-nacelle-port.stl | Port warp nacelle. | | bh2-nacelle-pylon-port.stl | Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. | | bh2-nacelle-pylon-starboard.stl | Starboard warp nacelle. | | bh2-nacelle-starboard.stl | Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. | | ma12-main-hull-no-cannons.stl | Main hull without small weapon details. | | ma12-main-hull.stl | Main hull. | | ma12-nacelle-port.stl | Port warp nacelle. | | ma12-nacelle-pylon-port.stl | Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. | | ma12-nacelle-pylon-starboard.stl | Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. | | ma12-nacelle-starboard.stl | Starboard warp nacelle. | | md8-main-hull.stl | Main hull. | | md8-port-nacelle-pylon.stl | Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. | | md8-port-nacelle.stl | Port warp nacelle. | | md8-starboard-nacelle-pylon.stl | Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. | | md8-starboard-nacelle.stl | Starboard warp nacelle. | | md8-ventral-module.stl | Bottom weapons module. | | ss3-core-hull.stl | Main hull. | | ss3-nacelle-port.stl | Port warp nacelle. | | ss3-nacelle-pylon-port.stl | Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. | | ss3-nacelle-pylon-starboard.stl | Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. | | ss3-nacelle-starboard.stl | Starboard warp nacelle. | | vovossa-dorsal-weapons-pod-no-canon.stl | Bottom weapons module without details. | | vovossa-dorsal-weapons-pod.stl | Bottom weapons module. | | vovossa-main-hull-no-canon.stl | Main hull without small weapon details. | | vovossa-main-hull.stl | Main hull. | | vovossa-nacelle-port.stl | Port warp nacelle. | | vovossa-nacelle-pylon-port.stl | Pylon connecting port nacelle to hull. | | vovossa-nacelle-pylon-starboard.stl | Pylon connecting starboard nacelle to hull. | | vovossa-nacelle-starboard.stl | Starboard warp nacelle. | | webslinger-hull-core.stl | Tholian core hull. | | webslinger-hull-port.stl | Lower-port hull section. | | webslinger-hull-starboard.stl | Lower-starboard hull section. | | webslinger-hull-top.stl | Top hull section. | Combined ship STLs These files provide sample ships generated using the parts included in this kit. | Part | Description | |----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | ship-bh2-no-canons.stl | Gorn BH-2 battleship without small weapons details. | | ship-bh2.stl | Gorn BH-2 battleship. | | ship-ma12-no-canons.stl | Gorn MA-12 light cruiser without small weapons details. | | ship-ma12.stl | Gorn MA-12 light cruiser. | | ship-md8.stl | Gorn MD-8 cruiser. | | ship-ss3.stl | Gorn SS-3 destroyer. | | ship-vovossa-no-canons.stl | Gorn Vovossa monitor without small weapons details. | | ship-vovossa.stl | Gorn Vovossa monitor. | | ship-webslinger.stl | Tholian Webslinger. | Blender files Blender files are included in the zip file: GornTholianBlenderFiles.zip This file contains two blender files for each design: a parts file, containing the STL parts arranged as used in the sample ship designs, and a parts source file, containing the raw blender objects used to create the parts. License I'm releasing this under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 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.