Based on MetlesitsFleetyards 3D model, modified for CNC carving by me and finished by hand 🖖🪚
This is stunning, I love the grain! EDIT: you answered my question already, it’s oak!
Wait. Did you post this just to brag how big your D is?
Gotta be 18 inches, at least.
What a firm and beautiful D you have.
And what shapely and enticing nacelles.
Oh my 🥵
Love your D! I’m a bit partial to Excelsior class ships, but Galaxy is good too.
Thanks! The Excelsior was actually the first one I made :)
It always looks like a boat to me
this is awesome work.
outta curosity, how do you feel about the Nova and Sydney classes?
They may be my favorites, lol. Nova because it’s sleak and actually makes sense as a science platform. (unlike the galaxy class. too big, too resource intensive, too many crew. and what the hell is with all the families on board getting shot at?)
I like the Sydney because it’s form follows function. it’s boxy, ugly, utilitarian. but it acutally makes sense. (Seriously… what the hell’s with the d’s compound curves? tons of wasted internal volume… exessive structural elements. Tons of vulnerabilities.)
A compound curve and beautifully wasted space sends a message to other cultures…we can afford this. Don’t start nothin’.
“Don’t start nothin with the Federation, or we’ll finish it with our heavily-armed conference centre”
Big fan of the Nova - it makes so much sense as a design from the same era as the Intrepid, though it does betray its origins as a Defiant concept to me, would work very well as a little agile warship.
The Sydney, ehh I can take or leave, it always felt a bit too kitbashy, but they did make a nice and balanced design despite that
I’m a big fan of all the weird little ships the federation scrambled to produce because of the borg.
You got the defiant, sure. but you also have the Akira and the Nova and their who-knows-how-many variations. it was like morons woke up and realized maybe they really do need warships and started throwing pasta at the wall to see what stuck.
The Universe class will bankrupt you for a slab of oak that big.
Gorgeous work!
I assume this was carved from the Captain’s Log.
Give it to him, he needs a new one.
But for real, your ship model looks nice.This looks incredible! How long did it take you and how much of this kind of thing have you done before? I imagine quite a bit for this kind of result.
Thanks! Took a couple of weeks in between other projects. Yeah this is my 10th or 12th or something, my insta has some others, link on my profile 🙂
Nice wood, bro.
“No one wants the fat ones.”
Speak for yourself! D for life!
Oh my god that is fucking beautiful…
Glad you like it! Thanks for all the memes ❤️
How the fuck could I not? That thing is a work of art. The amount of skill and talent required to do that is off the charts. You’re thankin me for just posting shit I have saved when I can do nothing but thank you for making something that stunning.
This is superb. Absolutely superb.
Awesome!
Is this all really one piece like it looks?
It’s made from a few sections - saucer, 2 piece neck, engineering hull, pylons, dictated by the sizes of timber I had
It looks like the saucer might detach, as it should!
Sadly it doesn’t, that’s just the join between sections - I did look into it, but couldn’t find a way that would simultaneously hold it firmly together, let it detach when needed, and be invisible from the outside.
It’s quite a big model and really front-heavy thanks to how much saucer there is, so it had to all be one piece really
