The Dominion ships, or fighter types that you are refering to actually are three types. The smallest one is considered an escort/large fighter, and the other two are easily Frigate and Destroyer size ships.
The Dominion only has 3 actual ship designs used in DS9. So when they had to come up with a ship that looked bigger than a fighter, they used the same "Beatle" design, but made it larger. They did this again for the Episode when the Romulans/Cardassians are tricked into attacking the Founder homeworld. They made the "Big Beatle" bigger.
In later episodes, they introduced two other large Capitol ships, the Battle Cruiser, and the Battleship/Dreadnought. (Episode Name was The Valant.)
The original Dominion ship set was created using images from DS9 technical manual, and from a website that was named
www.starshipscematics.com
I colorized many of the ships, and really took the forefront on establishing the Dominion as a playable race following a few other great efforts.
Finally I decided to make a new ship set for the Dominion based upon ship designs and such that could be duplicated in some degree.
That is the new set. Mind you, unless you want to spend a good week designing an exact replica of a Dominion ship in some 3D program, these ships are your best bet for "creative licensed" ships for the Dominion.
Ok, long winded response.
Short of it, there are actually three beatle ship sizes used by the Dominion.
To see old Dominion ships, you can visit
The Dominion
Mind you, the New Dominion ship set site is off line for now. I will have it back up soon enough.
[ February 28, 2003, 01:05: Message edited by: Atrocities ]