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Warlock-class Destroyer EAS Titans |
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By Joe Brown Scale: 1/4500The Warlock Class Destroyers are a new breed of Earth Alliance capital ships, very advanced and very large, 1992 meters long. The first prototype was completed in late 2261, and commanded by Captain Susan Ivanova. The Warlock class is absolutely loaded with weapons: particle beams, plasma cannons, railguns, missiles, and many small defensive interceptor/anti-fighter turrets. Earthforce decided it needed a new breed of starship; a starship capable of going toe-to-toe with a Minbari War-Cruiser, holding the line against attacking fleets, and capable of seizing any planet or colony with a minimal of casualties... and thus the Warlock was born. Armed with revolutionary weapons, power plant, and fitted with cutting-edge technology, the Warlock is the most devastating war machine produced in Earth history. The new Warlock measures 1,992.4 meters in length and is currently the most powerful ship in the Earth Alliance's Navy. With superior power, speed, and fuel efficiency, the science teams working on the Warlock Project began developing a revolutionary weapon system for the Warlock class Advanced Destroyers. |
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Advances in engineering and weapons technology purchased from the Narn, combined with acquired technology from the Centauri and Dilgar, Earth scientists were able to fit the Warlock Destroyer with two Aegis class, railed particle-beam cannons - weapons of the same type used on the G.O.D defense satelites orbiting Earth. This would mean the Warlock would be Earth's first mobile defense platform with a weapon at it's disposal on par with those used by the Minbari, an engineering feat deemed impossible only a few years before.
Following the conclusion of the Earth Civil War, the experimental new Warlock class Destroyers began their initial tests and shortly thereafter went into active service. First among these new warships was the Warlock, and then the Titans, under the command of Captain Susan Ivanova. The EAS Titans was soon followed by the Foxfire, Sorcerer, Necromancer and Enchantress. At present [2268] there are some 12 Warlock class vessels in service, with more under construction. Four Warlock class ships were a decisive asset to the Interstellar Alliance Combined Fleet that defended Earth from a Shadow DeathCloud, during the Drakh assault in 2265.
Building the model: After seeing the movie "A Call To Arms" which briefly shows several Warlock class ships fighting the Drakh, and then the episode "Each Night I Dream of Home", I decided that I had to have one of these warships. Finally, the Earth Alliance Fleet had gained a powerful warship that looks ominously powerful!I had purchased the Warlock metal gaming miniature from Agents of Gaming, and used both it and the 'Warlock Project' website as reference sources. I chose to keep the length of the model down to something reasonable (17 3/8 inches/ 44cm long) and I made working blueprints of that size. The model is constructed primarily from sheet styrene, cut, bent, and worked into specific shapes. The upper hull, the lower main hull, and the aft engine 'block' are really hollow boxes, attached together with square styrene tubing; this made for a strong model structurally, and it's still fairly light in weight. Reproducing the engines (6 needed, all identical, please) and the many, many plasma cannon turrets (all 11 of them!) posed a challenge, so I made a single master of an engine, and then of a turret, and cast many, many, MANY copies of them, until I had fairly decent representations of what is on the 'real' ship. These ships are depicted having a rather complicated paint scheme, but stills or screen-caputres show an almost uniformly dark hull, so this model was painted with Model Master Engine Black. The EA logo came from a Starfury kit, and the ship's name markings are dry-transfers. Image: Bow Image: Stern Image: Starboard side, from ahead and above |
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