3125 Scale Federation Battle Carrier (BCV) WEM

After the heavy carrier MacArthur was destroyed during Operation Remus, the Federation ordered the next battlecruiser hull completed as a carrier. This became the Shangri-La and was completed in two years before the end of the General War. When the heavy carrier Napoleon was heavily damaged in that same year, the subsequent battlecruiser was completed as the battle carrier Atlantis. The design was significant as it sacrificed nothing from the basic battlecruiser design in the way of firepower or energy. Both battle carriers had distinguished careers in the late General War years. The Shangri-La was known as the “ghost ship” because of its sudden appearances in various theaters. The Klingons thought (for most of the year it was launched) that there was no such ship, simply a clever Federation deception campaign ascribing raids by several other carriers to a single ship. Both battle carriers had drone racks in the dorsal turret; this was considered to be more efficient because of the drone-armed fighters, and there was no plasma-armed version of the battle carrier. The battle carrier is a variant of the Kirov-class battlecruiser. The hangar is a “tunnel deck” with doors at the forward and aft end. The battle carriers carried either one multi-role shuttle or one E2C SWAC shuttle, plus twelve F-14 “Tomcat” fighters or six F-101 “Voodoo” heavy fighters.

This ship is available in a variety of materials. Ships are unpainted, use standard flight stands available from many sources, and, while designed for gaming, make fine display pieces.