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Are the two square details on the warp engine connectors of the NCL the impulse engines or shuttle bay?
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If you mean the narrow vertical ones on the backs of the "yoke" (at the base of the struts supporting the engines), those are just generic greeblie-details to break up the otherwise flat face and give painters something to highlight, if they choose. They could be the tractor beam mounts, or anything you wish.

The shuttlebay doors are the two squares that are centerline, nestled in-between the "arms" of the yoke. The impulse engines are the rounded elipicatal feature at the rear of the saucer, much the same as the tv ship heavy cruiser and the other Feds.
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Thanks Will!
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A ship for today, the classic Federation transport/tug (originally from Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual). This is the ADB fleet tug, with the added shuttlebay and weapons the FJ version lacks.
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The last "ship" posted here for 2017 is the Klingon D-7 hanging gameroom decoration.
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The ship for today is the brand-new (to Shapeways) Klingon D-5 war cruiser.
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What's the difference between the D7 and D6 minis???
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Very little.

The only difference between the D6B and D7B is the D6B doesn't have the "wing" phasers underneath. The fluff text and McMasters blueprints pretty much specify that the D-7 was externally pretty much identical to the D-6.

For the D6K, I was at least able to give it a different, simpler "Aztec" hull pattern.
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It's been a few weeks.

A "ship" for today is the original Franz Joseph version of the "Star Fleet Headquarters" starbase.
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A ship for today, is the Franz Joseph version of the Federation CA heavy cruiser.
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Could you do comparison shots showing the difference between the FJD CA and the ADB CA? I am kinda curious as to what the differences visually are.
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It used to be posted to the bbs, but was cleared-out.

I'm checking with ADB for permission to post that image myself (all images have to be cleared).
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Thanks! (Either way. Even if no, thank you for asking!)
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A ship for today is the Federation fleet tug (ADB-version), "in ballast", with no pods.

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Does the pod come as a separate piece that can be glued/magnetized?
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