Federation class dreadnought and derivatives: Star Trek starship parts kit expansion #15 by CaptainMojo

Last crawled date: 2 years, 11 months ago

[Note: This kit is also available at an alternate Google Drive location. ]
This is the fifteenth expansion parts kit meant to complement my original Star Trek Constitution Class Parts Kit. This kit includes my attempt to depict the Federation class from the Franz Joseph Starfleet Technical manual, and some related designs.
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 for your kitbashing enjoyment.


This thing contains combined ship STLs. In addition it contains two zip file containing the parts STL files used to build the combined ships and the Blender files used to create those parts:
FedDN-blender-files.zip – The Blender source files used to generate the ship and part STL files.
FedDN-parts-stls.zip – STL part files.
This kit supports the following variant ship classes:
Federation class dreadnought
The original TOS-era three-nacelle dreadnought from Franz Joseph’s 1975 Starfleet Technical manual. Images from this book including, including diagrams of the Federation class, appeared briefly in the background of Star Trek II and III, making it arguably screen-canonical!

Federation class dreadnought (refit)
This fanon movie-era version upgrades the Federation to use styling consistent with the refit constitution. There are many versions of this design floating around the internet, but I’ve never been completely happy with any of them, particularly if they stray too far from the original FJ design. I’ve tried to synthesize a version that I like, inspired from several different sources (most prominently Jackill’s and Brad R. Torgersen’s versions), but keeping a number of key features from the original.

Star Empire class dreadnought
This model is my take on the titular ship from Diane Carey’s 1986 TOS novel, “Dreadnought!“ It’s a book I’m not particularly fond of but the ship itself has interesting features, most noticably an octagonal saucer. The design is highly speculative on my part, because all we’ve really got to go on is a highly stylized (and admittedly pretty cool) Boris Vallejo book cover.

Triumph class light dreadnought (remix)
These kits are meant to make kitbashing easier, and the Triumph class is a basic little example to celebrate real-world plastic model kitbashers. The design is a combination of Constitution and Federation class parts and was originally constructed from existing physical model kits by John Payne. In addition to the Federation class saucer, this model uses modifiied parts from my original Constitution Class Parts Kit.

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
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 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 2.9.
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. Parts are included in the ZIP file FedDN-parts-stls.zip.
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.
Combined ship STLs
These files provide sample ships generated using the parts included in this kit.
Ship
Description
Ship-FedDN-Federation.stl
Original Federation class.
Ship-FedDN-Federation-small-scale.stl
Original Federation class optimized for printing at smaller scale.
Ship-FedDN-Refit-Federation.stl
TMP-era refit of the Federation class.
Ship-FedDN-Star-Empire.stl
Star Empire class.
Ship-FedDN-Star-Empire-small-scale.stl
Star Empire class optimized for printing at smaller scale.
Ship-FedDN-Triumph-kitbash.stl
Triumph class.
Parts
Part
Description
FedDN-Federation-impulse.stl
Impulse drive, separate from saucer.
FedDN-Federation-nacelle-center.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Federation-nacelle-port.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Federation-nacelle-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Federation-neck.stl
Neck
FedDN-Federation-pylon-center.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Federation-pylon-port.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Federation-pylon-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Federation-saucer-impulse.stl
Saucer including impulse drive.
FedDN-Federation-saucer-standalone.stl
Saucer without impulse drive.
FedDN-Federation-secondary-hull-small-scale.stl
Secondary hull with details optimized for printing at smaller scale (mostly thickened sensor dishes).
FedDN-Federation-secondary-hull-standard.stl
Secondary hull optimized for higher detail printing.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-impulse.stl
Impulse drive, separate from saucer.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-nacelle-center.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-nacelle-port.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-nacelle-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-neck-connector.stl
Connection greeblie between neck and saucer.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-neck.stl
Neck
FedDN-Refit-Federation-pylon-connector-port.stl
Connection greeblie between warp nacelle pylon and secondary hull.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-pylon-connector-starboard.stl
Connection greeblie between warp nacelle pylon and secondary hull.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-pylon-port.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-pylon-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-saucer-impulse.stl
Saucer including impulse drive.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-saucer-standalone.stl
Saucer without impulse drive.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-secondary-hull.stl
Secondary hull.
FedDN-Refit-Federation-torpedo-module.stl
Neck-mounted torpedo module.
FedDN-Star-Empire-impulse.stl
Impulse drive, separate from saucer.
FedDN-Star-Empire-nacelle-center.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Star-Empire-nacelle-port.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Star-Empire-nacelle-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Star-Empire-neck-standalone.stl
Neck without torpedo tubes.
FedDN-Star-Empire-neck-torpedoes.stl
Neck including torpedo tubes.
FedDN-Star-Empire-pylon-center.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Star-Empire-pylon-port.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Star-Empire-pylon-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Star-Empire-saucer-complete.stl
Saucer with integrated impulse drive and neck cutout.
FedDN-Star-Empire-saucer-standalone.stl
Saucer without impulse drive or neck cutout.
FedDN-Star-Empire-secondary-hull-small-scale.stl
Secondary hull with details optimized for printing at smaller scale (mostly thickened sensor dishes).
FedDN-Star-Empire-secondary-hull-standard.stl
Secondary hull optimized for higher detail printing.
FedDN-Triumph-impulse.stl
Impulse drive, separate from saucer.
FedDN-Triumph-nacelle-center.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Triumph-nacelle-port.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Triumph-nacelle-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle.
FedDN-Triumph-pylon-center.stl
Warp nacelle pylon (repurposed Constitution neck).
FedDN-Triumph-pylon-port.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Triumph-pylon-starboard.stl
Warp nacelle pylon.
FedDN-Triumph-saucer.stl
Saucer with customized impulse drives.
FedDN-Triumph-secondary-hull.stl
Modified Constitution class secondary hull.
FedDN-Triumph-sensor-dish.stl
Saucer mounted sensor dish.
Blender files
The file FedDN-blender-files.zip 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.