EAS Agincourt and EAS Jeanne d'Arc |
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Seeing a rerun of an old "Babylon 5" movie on tv a few weeks ago inspired me to build a couple of ships from the B5 universe. One is canon while the other isn't. The non-canon one is the EAS Agincourt, a light cruiser I based on the Omega-class destroyer. For the forward, midship and engine sections, I used Jaybats' Agememnon card model, but reduced the kit parts to 75 percent and heavily modified them, including insetting some of the midship sections. I used Jaybats' engine parts as templates to make my own pieces out of metallic paper. (I simplified the plumbing, too; why have all that exposed plumbing on a warship?) Electrical wire was used for the antennas, and solder was used for some of the plumbing. The EAS Jeanne d'Arc is a Hyperion-class heavy cruiser. To my knowledge, that name was never used on the show. I just liked it better than Breheny, which is what the model comes as. The model was designed several years back by Diego Cortes Pardo, who offered a number of B5 ships on his website. I built his Breheny way back when but I wanted to build this model in the same scale as my new Agincourt, so after some online research and comparing various drawings, I concluded that if I copied Diego's original design at 83 percent, the two models would be in the same scale. I deviated from Diego's model in a few areas. |
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I ditched his trusswork to make my own (and more accurate) out of a dark gray metallic cardstock that I laminated to increase the thickness. I used the same cardstock to make the external framework. I also scratchbuilt new engines, resizing Alfonso X. Moreno's Shuttle engines to use as templates. I added detail throughout by cutting out or adding panels. I used wood beads for the gun turrets because I didn't want to make all those turrets out of paper. There were a few accuracy issues I improved. To add strength and insure everything lined up straight, there is a small strip of basswood running the length of the ship, hidden under various papers. I bent pieces of solder for the plumbing. I used short pieces of solder for the barrels on the turrets, except for the four big ones on front; they are silver paper that I rolled around a sewing needle. The antennas and probes are made from copper wire or laminated cardstock. Agincourt Image: Rear Right Image: Right Front Jeanne d'Arc Image: Front Right Image: Front Image: Rear Right |
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