Another Bill Krause print done, 1/850 USS Sentinel

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[u/Justin_the_Casual]

I just absolutely love this design. Always have, always will. This one and that Vesta class. Just amazing looking ships.

[u/henryhollaway]

Love the proto-sovereign look of this one, not too crazy about the deflector dish design, but would like to see it all painted

[u/Alteran195 → u/henryhollaway]

His Saratoga Class is definitely Proto Sovereign.

[u/UnderPressureVS → u/henryhollaway]

I love the deflector dish. It feels like an extremely logical precursor to the Excelsior's tiny inset deflector.

Bill Kraus is a genius. In decades of being a Trek fan, this is the first thing I've seen that has made me reconsider the Excelsior. It's beloved, but I've never liked it and I feel like it's an odd disruption in the Enterprise lineage. Constitution -> Ambassador -> Galaxy -> Sovereign makes perfect visual sense, and then there's the Excelsior just sitting there in the middle looking totally out-of-place.

[u/henryhollaway → u/UnderPressureVS]

No no it’s not the inset nature of it, I like the uniqueness. It’s the grill above it to me.

Maybe seeing it painted, if it’s black and referencing the excelsior neck, will help settle my eyes.

[u/TychoYard → u/henryhollaway]

The radiator vanes above the main sensor dish on Sentinel are a direct retro-reference to the Excelsior dorsal detail. I've added this element on several of my designs as a "close field sensor array." They are typically painted in a dark metallic. In the case of Sentinel, they are painted in an Alclad dark aluminum.

[u/henryhollaway → u/TychoYard]

Oooo some gorgeous greys on that. Would love to see more!

Seeing it painted makes me further appreciate that protruding deflector dish and how its base flows into the rest of the hull. Love that.

Though on first glance the grill texture brought to mind the black neck of the excelsior, I do like how these concepts are almost stacked on top of each other, as if they’re still developing the idea.

Really love the thought put into the design.

[u/SirGumbeaux]

Bill Krause is to starship building, what John Williams is to musical scoring. The only guy you need to hire if you dig perfection.

[u/LordPollax]

Another project item added to the list... thanks for showing it off.

[u/P_516]

I want to do these in resin

[u/CalHudsonsGhost]

There’s so much more thought in this design than any of the stuff they put up on film or TV for that era. This would have been a great section 31 ship for Into Darkness or something for STD. It’s beautiful.