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3DDY-500 and XCV-100 Freightliners. Reimagined Early United Earth ships.
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Hi, I'd like to share a project I'm in the middle of working on - making some early Star Trek era ships for Dave Bissig, who is reimagining the early UE/Federation timeline and putting his own spin on things. You might have come across some of his work via videos he's done with the Trekyards gang.
He needed a DY-100-esque looking ship. So I kitbashed some of my older stuff, and blocked out a new front end that had a DY-100 style submarine sail and pointy nose.
That has since expanded into two variants, a pre-warp sleeper ship, and post warp freightliner:
The idea is for modular configurations, depending on the mission:
Since I'm making things modular, I decided I may as well resurrect my old unfinished XCV-100 ringship freighter and give it the same new warp ring drive as the DY-500:
As it stands right now, I've finished texturing this forward section and am going to make a start on the cargo pods over the weekend:
Hi, I'd like to share a project I'm in the middle of working on - making some early Star Trek era ships for Dave Bissig, who is reimagining the early UE/Federation timeline and putting his own spin on things. You might have come across some of his work via videos he's done with the Trekyards gang.
He needed a DY-100-esque looking ship. So I kitbashed some of my older stuff, and blocked out a new front end that had a DY-100 style submarine sail and pointy nose.
That has since expanded into two variants, a pre-warp sleeper ship, and post warp freightliner:
The idea is for modular configurations, depending on the mission:
Since I'm making things modular, I decided I may as well resurrect my old unfinished XCV-100 ringship freighter and give it the same new warp ring drive as the DY-500:
As it stands right now, I've finished texturing this forward section and am going to make a start on the cargo pods over the weekend:
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Thanks! Yeah the DY series is very basic, even in TOS-R, but it's a very interesting design.
Really fascinating to see how rough the original filming model was!
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/DY-100_class_model
Everything was better in the old days.
I think I'm about there for the FTL version of the DY-500. I'll probably switch to a more utilitarian grey colour for the sub-light versions of this ship:
I wouldn't know what obsessing over decades old diagrams is like [whistles innocently...]
I've read elsewhere that this ship is your contribution to the 'Bissigverse' fan project. If other contributions even come close to this standard, it will be awesome.
I admit I've been fond of Trekverse historical chronologies since first seeing Rick Sterbach's art back in that 1980 vintage spaceflight lineage book.
I also admit to now tending towards a 'road not taken' approach to Trek history, which of necessity, couldn't include a major sci-fi franchise predicting things ahead of time. What event almost immediately preceded the production of the first Star Trek pilot? Picture a fork in the road in Dallas, Texas on a sunny day in November 2063, where shots (certainly from many directions) DIDN'T ring out. But my apologies... I digress...
ST: First Contact Freudian slip.
Yeah it's a set of procedural maps strung together to create different scales of rocky detail, and a Substance bump map for the really fine stuff. I'm thinking of doing another asteroid that uses these procedural maps, but plugged into a custom made mask so I can alter the finer displacement details for things like craters.
Thank you this was a VPN issue. Incredible images.
Excellent!
Also: Mankind's first visit to Andoria?