285 Scale Kzinti Large Attack Shuttle Fighter MGL

The Kzintis are a species of eight-foot-tall felines; the Klingons call them “tigermen.” They are adjacent to the Federation (and have fought two major wars with them, losing both) and the Klingons (and have fought several wars with them, winning a few and losing a few). Kzinti ships are armed with disruptors, phasers, and drones. They have more drones on their standard warships than any other empire, and forests of phaser-3s, because their ships are designed to fight each other. (They have had more civil wars than foreign wars.) They are enemies of the Klingons and Lyrans and allies of convenience with the Hydrans and Federation.

While the Kzintis called this a “shuttle,” it was a double-sized fighter similar to the Federation A-20 or the Klingon Z-H. The Large Attack Shuttle Heavy Fighters (LAS)  carried drones but the primary firepower was the two disruptors, each with enough energy to fire twice. These Large Attack Shuttles were useless as dogfighters and in fact had to be protected from Klingon fighters by standard-sized superiority fighters. The Large Attack Shuttle was, in effect, just a flying weapons platform, but considering the number of weapons carried (two standard drones, two special drones, four dogfight drones) that wasn’t a bad concept. The dogfight drones and multi-warhead special drones were used to destroy attacking enemy fighters, meaning that this huge fighter devoted half of its payload to simply staying alive.

The 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.