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The
U.S.S. Yeager was a starship assigned to patrol the Bajoran
Sector. In many episodes during the last couple of seasons of
DS9, the Yeager could be seen in orbit of the station.
This model was built in the same way and with many of the same
materials as the filming miniature.
For the filming miniature, it is likely that the registry was a
simple rearrangement of Voyager's decals (74656 to 65674). For
the name, Voyager letters (with an additional 'E' from a second
decal sheet) can be easily rearranged to spell Yeager.
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Coincidently,
this Intrepid variant is virtually identical in length to the
standard Intrepid Class.
The Voyager saucer is built stock. The Maquis Ship had a lot of
modified details, especially around the midline.
The base color is Flat Gull Gray. The blue detail on top is
Model Master Azure Blue. The bottom and side detail color is
Russian Underside Blue, which actually looks green.
The top of the aft hull and warp engines were detailed with Flat
Light Brown.
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The only other kit parts are the vent detail panels from the
Runabout kit on the back of the Yeager's secondary hull. The
details on these pieces and the forward torpedo launchers were
painted Zinc Chromate. The tan color detail on the Yeager is
Armor Sand.
The lifeboat hatches were painted Sand and the phaser banks are
Euro 1 Gray. The ribbed pylon details were painted Rust. The
large sensor platforms were painted Battle Matt Gray.
The impulse engines and Bussard Collectors are Gloss Red and the
warp nacelle grilles are Flat Light Blue.
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I
made all of the markings for the Yeager with Adobe Illustrator.
The colors are very eccentric for a Federation starship, and these are the closest I could get to the studio miniature's
color scheme.
Gloss Orange was used as the RCS thruster color with Flat Brown
and Zinc Chromate detailing.
Windows were Gloss White and Gloss Black depending on their 'on'
or 'off' status.
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I
chose the nose of the Maquis ship as the main deflector dish,
knowing the saucer section already had the auxiliary deflector.
The underside colors are mostly speculation as there are no
underside shots of the filming model available. I decided to be
conservative until I find out otherwise.
Just as on the filming model, the angled vents of the Maquis
ship were not present as they had been used on the saucer of the
USS Centaur.
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It
is interesting to note that the Voyager engines were swapped
port for starboard on this model. This left the actual warp
grille on the inboard sides. The outboard grilles were the holes
for Voyager pylon attachment. I placed ribbed Evergreen styrene
in the hole to simulate the outer warp grilles.
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Photos
by Stephen L.
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