tholians

[PaladinOfEarth]

PAX,
Thanks! for the links. I have about 20 un painted miniatures.
Hm, Play SE or paint ships.
Any suggestions?

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by oleg:
I changed carriers. Is it better now?

1026893605.zip

Uh, no... that's the same. The carriers still look like fighters. The SMALL FIGHTER still looks like a good basis for a carrier design. Big 'segments' of triangular crystal with the open edges being natural locations for fighter bays.

[geoschmo]

I would ahve to agree that I like this set, it just doesn't look very "Tholian". But it would be a nice set as a unique race.

The race pic though is very good. It does appear that it could be what the distorted images available from TOS represent.

Geo

[oleg]

After reading the stormy discussion about Gorn ship set, I believe my Tholians insulted quite a few trekkies. Therefore I am inclined to make them some other race and never ever again touch anything ST related. Please vote what should I do: keep them or change ?

[Q]

This is just my very humble personal opinion, but I find this critic about the authenticity of races inappropriate. If you don't like the race, nobody forces you to use it. And I believe the creators of the races should have the freedom to make it like they want it to be and not be slaves to the original TV pictures.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by oleg:
After reading the stormy discussion about Gorn ship set, I believe my Tholians insulted quite a few trekkies. Therefore I am inclined to make them some other race and never ever again touch anything ST related. Please vote what should I do: keep them or change ?

Don't take it too seriously Oleg. All this stuff is made up anyway. The Tholians and Gorn are two extremely MONOR races form TOS. The Tholians had one ship, and IIRC we never even got to seeee the Gorn ships even once. So everything else since, ie Star Fleet Battles is just something someone else made up anyway. It just so happens they made it up before you did. That doesn't make it any more correct than yours.

Besides, who says we can't have more than one of these shipsets floating around. There are 5 or 6 Federation shipsets by my count. Noone is claiming theirs to be "official".

So, don't take the critics too seriously. Have fun making your shipsets. And know that they will be used and appreciated by somebody, that's what counts right?

Geoschmo

[Captain Kwok]

Oleg:

I actually thought your shipset represented the Tholians quite well. The translucent colouring and faceted look are exactly what I would expect from them. Don't get discouraged by a few minor complaints/whines - it's what Star Trek fans do best.