Exciting news starship fans, starship model makers Eaglemoss are at last tapping into one of the few remaining pockets of Starfleet starship designs they've not yet made models of, the Kelvin timeline background fleet! Newly listed on the UK Eaglemoss webshop (currently in waitlist mode ahead of pre-orders going live some time this month) is the USS Armstrong. The design is similar to the Miranda class, with the addition of a secondary hull below the saucer.
The most prominent designs alongside the Armstrong include the Mayflower type, which is similar, but with a full circle saucer, no secondary hull, and no roll-bar. And the Newton type, the most distinctive of the bunch, with a semi-circle saucer, and two secondary hulls which hang below the two nacelles. There's also a red version of the Armstrong-type (will be interesting to see if Eaglemoss ever opt to do a variant).
The Designing Starships: The Kelvin Timeline(ad) book does show the final form of the Mayflower, alongside a dark-hulled variant.
But these three classes aren't the entire fleet. There are a several more ships we've never got a good look at. Look closely at the starbase below, and note in addition to those three classes and the Enterprise, there are a number of smaller saucer-and-nacelle type designs docked at the base. Could Eaglemoss finally give us a clear look at these too?
The Designing Starships book highlights one other design prominently, the single-nacelled Excelsior. Although this doesn't quite seem to fit any of those little blurs.
From a concepts page in the same book we can also see several other potential configurations. Did any of these become the tiny designs we can just make out at the starbase?
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Thank you to TrekCore's ever useful screencap library for most of the screencaps above.