[Note: This kit is also available at an alternate Google Drive location. ]

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This is the fourth expansion parts kit meant to complement my original Star Trek Constitution Class Parts Kit, providing parts to support for additional Klingon designs from the old FASA Star Trek role playing game. See kit #3 for the previous set of Klingon ships. All parts are meant to be cross-compatible between parts kits.

Update 2021-06-06:  I’ve massively overhauled this kit to support improved detail level, mesh quality cleanup and improvements, and support for additional ship variants. Many of the ship parts have been rebuilt from scratch, with various levels of visual changes to the ship designs. I’ve also included “TOS” and “TMP” versions of each design, using parts consistent with the D-7 from the original series or the K’t’inga class from the movies. If you’re looking for the old version of the kit, it’s been archived at the old Google drive location.

Update 2021-03-14: Added "small-scale" version of the D-18, and L-9 ship files which have thicker necks. If you're having issues with the narrow necks on these models, the new files will hopefully be easier to print.

Update August 2020: made a fix to the L-9 bridge module to correct a mesh issue.

This thing contains combined ship STLs. In addition it contains two zip file containing the parts STL files used to build the combined ships and the Blender files used to create those parts:

• Klink2V2-blender-files.zip - The Blender source files used to generate the STL files.
• Klink2V2-parts-stls.zip - Individual part STL files used to build the complete ships.

This kit supports the following ship classes:

D-2

D-14

Includes the standard FASA version, and a variant with bird of prey style wing cannons.

D-18

K-23 / D-23

The D-23 is a variant only found in the FASA adventure module “Termination 1456”. It is essentially the K-23 with a slightly stretched out rear hull, reconfigured nacelle pylons, and different weapons configuration.

K-26

K-27

Also included is a non-canonical alternate version of the K-27 which uses a D-7 style bridge module.

L-9

Includes variants based on the alternate weapons configurations of the A/B, E/F, and G models of the L-9.

The FASA Star Trek RPG was very popular among us older Star Trek fans who came of age in the '80s and '90s. It lost its license to produce Star Trek in 1988, seemingly because Gene Rodenberry, hot off of the success of TNG season 1, wanted to de-emphasize the military aspect of Starfleet, despite the abundance of uniforms, ranks, and 50-megaton matter-antimatter warheads that all his shows were chocked full of.

FASA Trek provided a tremendous amount of background on a Trek universe that was, in many ways, more realistic and interesting than what Rodenberry and company wanted in TNG and later shows. Although much of this background has been supplanted by later official canon, the ships from this game remain popular among old-school fans.

These designs are based on the FASA ship recognition manual. Like the Federation manual, these renderings from the original source manuals are very inconsistent. As a result, these parts and sample ships are heavily based on the redraws found on Brad R. Torgersen's Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator On-Line Database & Archive, as well as my own interpretation.

Notes on scaling and working with Blender

My target scale for all source files and output STL files is 1:1000. Although these files have not been extensively tested through printing, they are intended to be resized to match common modelling and miniatures scales.

Blender is free, which to be honest was the primary factor in my decision to learn it. There are many fine video and text tutorials available online if you're interested in learning more. See the Blender fundamentals tutorials playlist to get started.

You can use File -> Import -> Stl (.stl) and File -> Export -> Stl (.stl) to load or save STL files in blender.

Note: This kit was built using Blender 2.9.

Post-processing STL output

Although all of the STL files included have been tested as valid watertight meshes, joining the parts together and exporting new STL files can introduce small errors that may cause issues with slicing programs. I recommend any STL files you create are checked using a program like Netfabb Basic free edition. Doing a simple "Close All Holes" repair has fixed most of the issues I've run into so far. If you do run into issues with mesh quality, please let me know.

Combined ship STLs

These files provide complete ships generated using the parts included in this
kit.

Parts list

The following lists provide a summary of the included parts from all the zip files. For the majority of items, the mesh origin has been set so that when you import these objects into your 3D editor of choice, they are positioned as they would be on the sample ships provided.

Parts

Blender files

The
Klink2V2-blender-files.zip file contains two blender files for each design: a parts file, containing the STL parts arranged as used in the sample ship designs, and a parts source file, containing the raw blender objects used to create the parts.

License

I'm releasing this under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. You're free to distribute and modify these files (even for commercial use), provided you attribute the creator and distribute your contributions under the same license.