r/StarBlazers

This was a class of ship that existed in the original series but was not included in the reboot. I personally quite liked the design and decided to do a take on it. When designing the ship, I aimed for it to be a cheaper alternative to the Dreadnought, a nice mid-level ship between the Patrol Cruisers and Dreadnoughts.

To do this I decided instead of the smaller triple barreled turrets usually mounted to the sides of these ships I would go for Dreadnought turrets, this would give the Heavy Cruiser a very similar firepower level to a dreadnought (if both ships are facing forward) add on the three large twin turrets and the Heavy Cruiser has around the same ish firepower as a Dreadnought, I tried to give a middle road advantage to the heavy cruiser without making the Dreadnought obsolete, gives the EDF a reason to build one ship over the other depending on the time. The Dreadnought, of course, boasts a stronger wave motion gun, better protection, and it can launch fighters, while the heavy cruiser doesn't have the same level of protection, its wave motion gun is weaker compared to the Dreadnought (but stronger than the Patrol cruisers) and she only has one hangar which can carry a very limited degree of aircraft, certainly not a full squadron of fighters. In the end, I had the ship be a neat fill-in for fleets, need the firepower of a dreadnought but cannot afford one? You build one of these, if you want more capabilities (aircraft squadron storage, stronger WMG, etc.); you don't build one of these.

For a name I landed upon "Meteor" I wanted a space themed neutral name for this ship, and Meteor seemed to fit, just as she is when I thought up of why the EDF would want one of these, she is cheaper than a Dreadnought in FTD (you can actually get Two Meteor class ships for the price of one Dreadnought in FTD) but of course, the ship is less protected than a Dreadnought and has a weaker WMG. Maneuverable, hard-hitting, fast & fairly cost-effective (by my standards anyway), Meteor is a neat alternative to the Dreadnought, while not being a replacement for it.

This shall be the final resting place for my oldest Yamato model, the 2202 kit from when it first released, and 9 years later, after being absolutely wrecked with its gun barrels snapping, bridge sections going missing, aa guns being snapped off and even more being used as parts for my 2202 final battle spec build, I figured the least I could do for this model was to finally put it to rest in one of the most memorable scenes from this series. May you forever rest beneath the seas of aquarius, Yamato

Today we have Battleship Shunran and Earth Flagship Prince of Wales

Shunran is a modified Andromeda that appears originally from the PS2 Yamato game, my version is less armed and more akin to a standard Andromeda than the official one is.

I also made a new "Prince of Wales" design which is a modified Arizona with some shared guns with Shunran (quad 46cm guns)

Also Amaterasu cameo

I decided to finally do something different and didn't do a spaceship, instead I did the Cosmo Seagull shuttle depicted in 2199. I had plans to do one eventually and had sized my Dreadnaught shuttle door to the rough size of a Cosmo Seagull, so it fits perfectly now! It also fits well on the carriers too as a result.

stellaris with the https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3545881885 mod

Now I just gotta figure out how to not suck at scale modeling

My take on Amaterasu is more of an experiment into "Phase Wave Energy", with a shielding system that absorbs incoming energy and uses it to fire back harder, making her an ideal ship for the Gatlantis war that was ongoing during her development

Her intended purpose was to close the battleship gap with other nation states (such as Garmilas) with the ability to disproportionally provide more firepower than peer battleships could. (Similar to the intention with the irl Yamato battleships)

Requested by u/DinoDavid1209

My take on the Lexington/Asuka style hullform, featuring two dual 20cm guns (same as Arizona's secondaries)

It's flight deck is roughly the same size as the Kongo Kai one, still having two catapults (there's also flame diverters now)

And the Graviton spread cannons and shuttle elevator are still there like on standard Dreadnaughts

This is currently the largest EFCF ship in their fleet (as of 2201-2202)

Mars Defense Line Garrison (Formed Late 2201) Sortied to rescue the Earth Carrier Fleet from Gatlantis encirclement, lost with all hands

• Andromeda Class Battleship "Arcturus" BBY-2201-36
• Andromeda Class Battleship "Achilles" BBY-2201-37
• Dreadnaught Class Battleship "Venator" BBY-2201-33
• Dreadnaught Class Battleship "Strident" BBY-2201-34
• Dreadnaught Class Battleship "Stalwart" BBY-2201-35
• Kongo Kai Class Battleship "Jaeger" BBY-2201-32
• Kongo Kai Class Battleship "Thunderchild" BBY-2201-31
• Kongo Kai Class Battleship "Victory" BBY-2201-30
• Luna Class Destroyer "Paris" DD-2201-523
• Luna Class Destroyer "London" DD-2201 - 519
• Luna Class Destroyer "York" DD-2201 - 520
• Luna Class Destroyer "Rio" DD-2201 - 521
• Luna Class Destroyer "Moskva" DD-2201 - 522
• Luna Class Destroyer "Tokyo" DD-2201 - 524

https://youtu.be/jS66ve9Gd4g?si=f9x5z6W0smxGQ8tS

Some very interesting things here, July (for us), can't come soon enough

After 2 weeks of constant work, I've finally done it.

Special mods includes the optional explosion effects for the lambea, and a modified garunt with magnets to attach to a wire or the darold's launch deck.

And as someone pointed out in my previous Yamato build, I've gone and bought the garunt kit JUST for the drill missile

Wrapping up the Autonomous fleet, the Ajax class, while the Autonomous fleet in the show had around 49 vessels of this class to make up the Autonomous fleet, only 4-5 ships is needed for FTD. Gladiator makes up the armor and defense of the fleet while the Ajax class are the striking power of the fleet. With this ship done this is technically the last official earth ship from the reboot series that I needed to build, there is a ship past this that wasn't in the reboot (the heavy cruiser) that I will be building, but in terms of official ships that appeared in the reboot, Ajax was the last of them.

Did a carrier version of the Kongo Kai, turning it into a full deck carrier with two catapults and two elevators (it should be able to fit C2s from my scaling estimates)

The Anton/Bruno turrets have been removed and the bridge relocated to the CIC (rangefinding suite section)

There's also newer positron flak AA and some interceptor missile launchers

Also the original hangar doors are there for shuttle/auxiliary craft not launched through the deck (such as scout craft)

My 2201 EFCF fleet comp (posted previously) will have 8 of these in the carrier force

Redid my Andromeda model to fit with the new scale established by my Dreadnaught model, theres some minor changes like the size, theres only two Graviton cannon mounts now (same as Dreadnaught), though most of it still resembles the OS/Remake design.