3788 Scale Gorn Allosaurus Buck+ Battlecruiser

The Gorns are six-to-seven-foot-tall, 350-pound, cold-blooded, egg-laying, reptilian humanoids bearing a superficial resemblance to a T-Rex or Raptor. Despite the fearsome visage, they are actually quite civilized people who run one of the few democracies in the galaxy. The Federation and Gorns met in a border incident in which two hot-headed captains shot first and faced embarrassing questions later. (A Federation corporation built an unauthorized colony outside of Federation territory. The Gorns saw a few Vulcans and thought the colonists were Romulans (with which they had fought wars for over a century.) Diplomats smoothed everything over and the Gorns became the most stable ally of the Federation. The Gorn legislature’s reluctance to spend money or join the Federation's war limited this alliance during some periods. (Note: The dinosaur-based names are Federation “reporting names” because few in the Federation could pronounce the Gorn names for them. Shown books on paleontology, the Gorns were reportedly honored and amused by the naming convention.)

The mainstay of the Gorn fleet, this battlecruiser was a refit of the earlier Heavy Cruiser. It carried the fairly standard main battery of two plasma-S and two plasma-F torpedoes, matching the Romulan K7R or FireHawk. While the most common thing said about this ship was "it was as solid as a brick and almost as maneuverable" it was in fact in the same maneuver category as most Federation ships (albeit worse than Romulan or Klingon ships). The two shuttle bays are on the opposite sides of the midships section, with magnetic tracks able to move the shuttles out to three magnetic landing pads on each wing. This allowed the ship to land multiple shuttles and then take them into the bay at a more convenient time later. It later received the “plus” refit. The scaled panels on the outer surfaces represent efforts to reduce the electronic signature of the “Allosaurus Buck+” and match it to the standard Allosaurus Buck so the enemy could not tell the difference.

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.