I decided my EAS Agincourt needed a companion, so I decided to build another ship from the "Babylon 5" universe -- the Hyperion-class heavy cruiser EAS Jeanne d'Arc. (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. It appears his website is gone, though, so I used the Wayback Machine to find an cached version and downloaded the model from there. I've always liked the look of the Hyperion-class; it seems a cross between a submarine and an old railroad bridge. I wanted to build it in the same scale as my Agincourt (1/3828) so after some online research and comparing various drawings, I concluded that if I copied Pardo's original design at 83 percent, it would work out to the same scale (approximately) as my Agincourt.
I deviated from Cortes' model in a few areas, mostly in e interest of accuracy. I ditched his trusswork parts 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 didn't use his three engines; they are just wrong. Instead, I resized Alfonso X. Moreno's Shuttle engines to use as templates to make new engines and added additional detail. 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 that 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 various bits of plumbing. I also 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 various antennas and probes are made from copper wire or laminated cardstock.
I don't know if Cortes is still involved in cardmodeling. He offered some good, one-of-a-kind kits that built into nice models. That said, this is a model badly in need of a repaint. Even printed at normal size, the markings are fuzzy and some (like the registration numbers) are missing altogether. The blue stripes have fuzzy edges. One side of the model seems darker than the other.
Still, I think it looks decent sitting next to my [i]Agincourt[i].
The model was designed several years back by Diego Cortes Pardo, who offered a number of B5 ships on his website. It appears his website is gone, though, so I used the Wayback Machine to find an cached version and downloaded the model from there. I've always liked the look of the Hyperion-class; it seems a cross between a submarine and an old railroad bridge. I wanted to build it in the same scale as my Agincourt (1/3828) so after some online research and comparing various drawings, I concluded that if I copied Pardo's original design at 83 percent, it would work out to the same scale (approximately) as my Agincourt.
I deviated from Cortes' model in a few areas, mostly in e interest of accuracy. I ditched his trusswork parts 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 didn't use his three engines; they are just wrong. Instead, I resized Alfonso X. Moreno's Shuttle engines to use as templates to make new engines and added additional detail. 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 that 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 various bits of plumbing. I also 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 various antennas and probes are made from copper wire or laminated cardstock.
I don't know if Cortes is still involved in cardmodeling. He offered some good, one-of-a-kind kits that built into nice models. That said, this is a model badly in need of a repaint. Even printed at normal size, the markings are fuzzy and some (like the registration numbers) are missing altogether. The blue stripes have fuzzy edges. One side of the model seems darker than the other.
Still, I think it looks decent sitting next to my [i]Agincourt[i].
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