The Avalon class luxury deep space yacht has been a popular private vessel for years. It’s power and speed make it ideal for a medium sized race vehicle. This is a model of the “Pride of Avalon”, once a private charter space transport, it has been modified into a high performance space racer.

The interior has been stripped down of all non essential parts and decor. What was once luxury suite-size cabins have been reduced to smaller quarters for the race pilots, mechanics and engineers. Everything has been re-engineered for speed and performance. The Pride of Avalon carries her own spare parts and tools for the crew and has limited self-repair technology. She is capable of planetfall landings which is great during the off-season for promotion purposes.

The main hull remains true to the Avalon original design. The engines are a custom built high performance warp package supplied by YoYodyne Propulsion technologies. It seems the only problem the crew has with this ship is flying it too fast.

Construction Notes

I have had this kitbash built for some time. When the Space Racers contest came up, I decided to finish it and enter the contest. The model is built of leftover parts from other kits. The main componets are a stand base from the Excelsior and wings and engine pods from a Naboo fighter. Other greeblies and dodads include a bridge unit from an Enterprise A, an F-18 canopy rail, some leftover vacuform bits, a rear top Excelsior hangar bay and engine cover and a few odds and ends. The six windows at the nose of the ship are cut up graphic tape. Everything was laid out in a general concept, and I made modifications and adjustments before gluing it all together. I wanted to do a federation fast attack cruiser with a pylon arrangement similar to the TOS Aurora, but in the end I decided on a conventional "flat wing" type profile. I ended up with a shape that looks fast even when it's parked.

Decals came from leftover fighter aircraft sheets. Weathering was done with pencils, pastels and ink washes. The stand is simply a wood base and brass rod paitned black.

Image: Port side

Image: Rear view

Image: Underneath