A dumb question for Star Trek Fans

JAL3 · Dec 13, 2010

Believe it or not, I really am this ignorant::blush:

Is the Atlantis such as from Sirius Rocketry part of the Star Trek universe? It has that Trekky kind of look to it but I am not familiar with it. If so, which series was the Atlantis part of?

I watched the original series and was hit or miss with TNG and have never seen one of the others.

Thanks

MrGneissGuy · Dec 13, 2010

I didn't know off the top of my head, I looked it up. It appears that the Star Trek Universe did/does include a USS Atlantis. Several actually, there were apparently quite a few versions of the USS Atlantis. The ones I found pictures of don't match Sirius' Atlantis. I also searched the registry number (substituting "NCC" for the "SCC" on the Sirius ship). The only thing I could find on that was the USS Arrow, a Nova Class Mark-Ia Destroyer of the 3rd Fleet, Beta Quadrant - Starbase 56 at the Klingon Border.

Wow, that really makes me look like a geek. Sirius says it's loosely based on an old Estes favorite. I would guess that the Estes kit was "inspired" by Star Trek, and Sirius was inspired by Estes. I tried to find some Estes documentation for theirs, to see if there was any reference to Star Trek, but couldn't find anything.

JAL3 · Dec 13, 2010

MrGneissGuy said:
I didn't know off the top of my head, I looked it up. It appears that the Star Trek Universe did/does include a USS Atlantis. Several actually, there were apparently quite a few versions of the USS Atlantis. The ones I found pictures of don't match Sirius' Atlantis. I also searched the registry number (substituting "NCC" for the "SCC" on the Sirius ship). The only thing I could find on that was the USS Arrow, a Nova Class Mark-Ia Destroyer of the 3rd Fleet, Beta Quadrant - Starbase 56 at the Klingon Border.

Wow, that really makes me look like a geek. Sirius says it's loosely based on an old Estes favorite. I would guess that the Estes kit was "inspired" by Star Trek, and Sirius was inspired by Estes. I tried to find some Estes documentation for theirs, to see if there was any reference to Star Trek, but couldn't find anything.

Wow.

I didn't expect anyone to do that much work. Thanks and I do appreciate it.

I do have vague memories of the Estes version. I think the big difference is that the Estes kit had round nacelles like from the original series while the Sirius version is more rectangular in profile.

I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out how to index the Sirius kit. Is it:

A. Listed as the Sirius Refit Atlantis
B. listed as a variant of the Estes Atlantis
C. listed in Fantasy Scale as part of the Star Trek milieu.

SecretSquirrel · Dec 13, 2010

Back in '76, the year after Estes released the Enterprise and Klingon Cruiser, they introduced the Atlantis kit.

It's obviously a kit inspired by Star Trek but not one that was actually used in the show.

The Sirius kit looks like they took the idea of the refit Enterprise from the movies and applied some of the same design updates to the Atlantis.

JAL3 · Dec 13, 2010

SecretSquirrel said:
Back in '76, the year after Estes released the Enterprise and Klingon Cruiser, they introduced the Atlantis kit.

It's obviously a kit inspired by Star Trek but not one that was actually used in the show.

The Sirius kit looks like they took the idea of the refit Enterprise from the movies and applied some of the same design updates to the Atlantis.

That's what I was looking for.

Thanks!

EchoVictor · Dec 13, 2010

Also, the Sirius kit (BT-55 based) is larger than the Estes kit (BT-50).

I did a "halfway-in-between" version where I just cloned an Estes Atlantis and changed the nose cone and engine pods;

Original build thread;
https://www.rocketryforumarchive.com/showthread.php?t=20850

Later,
EV

JAL3 · Dec 13, 2010

EchoVictor said:
Also, the Sirius kit (BT-55 based) is larger than the Estes kit (BT-50).

I did a "halfway-in-between" version where I just cloned an Estes Atlantis and changed the nose cone and engine pods;

Original build thread;
https://www.rocketryforumarchive.com/showthread.php?t=20850

Later,
EV

That's nice!

May I post it to a gallery?

EchoVictor · Dec 14, 2010

Sure! There are more pictures in the archive thread....

Later,
EV

powderburner · Dec 14, 2010

EV,

That's a really nice job!

Qstn: Were those tip fin-tubes some special kind of tubing or did you (somehow) have to modify existing round BT to get that cross-section shape?

EchoVictor · Dec 14, 2010

The engine pods are simply two BT-5's placed over/under, then angle cut 30 degrees at the front and 45 degrees at the back. I took a thin strip of balsa (the blue piece) and beveled the back edges to lay in between the two tubes. The end caps (yellow pieces) are just oval pieces cut to fit.

The engine pylons are simply the same shape as the bottom fin flipped around. All of the other bits are a direct Atlantis clone.

There are more pictures and descriptions in the archive thread....

Later,
EV

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