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3DTrek Border Cutter / Scout
NightShadow10
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She's nothing spectacular or interesting, and I honestly don't have the foggiest clue as to what to name it, but I'm pretty sure it's done. I kicked around the design concept about 4 years ago and haven't touched it since. This weekend, though, I found myself with a little free time and decided to play around a bit. If it looks like she needs anything more, please tell me. And if I goofed anything up, PLEASE tell me.
Suggestions for a name would be cool, too.
Suggestions for a name would be cool, too.
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"Nis'gaa-Class"
From the look of the impulse engines, this beast must be a danm fast beast.
My suggestions:
Mjolnyr-class (named after the might hammer of Thor from the Norse myth)
Abaris-class (named after the all-penetrating arrow from the Greek myth)
Fragarach-class (named after the powerful sword from the Celtic myth)
Obviously it's your ship and therefore yours to design as you see fit but if I were to change anything on it I'd probably eliminate the top 2 impulse engine exhausts and instead use them as 2, single capacity sideways berthed, shuttle bays. Obviously it wouldn't be suitable for the likes of runabout sized shuttles but perhaps a type 9 shuttle (like Voyagers).
The only (hopefully constructive) criticism I have is that the area you have for the torpedo launcher seems a bit small for the torpedoes and mechanisms for it. From various shows I've seen they were at least man-sized objects normally. Grant from looking at various Wikipedia pages, they say they have "mini-torpedoes"... but again that is just a wiki page.
Again though, good job overall.
Also, their placement gives them only a little freeboard between the launcher and the upper-hull. I'd raise them up a bit (at least a few feet) just so there's no concern about hitting the hull while firing torpedoes under radical maneuvers.
Otherwise, I am actually in favor of this ship. Doesn't seem over armed (though six pulse-phasers is quite a handfull) nor over designed.
Nice job. :thumb:
I'm actually partial to the over-sized impulse engines at the rear. Conveys the concept of "Coast Guard in Space" rather effectively. Anywhere in a system she's gonna be a REAL handfull.
Can I suggest you Beaumont, Triumph or Artemis as a name?
now as for the torpedo launcher size the pic with the man tells me that the ship has a beam of 80 meters (262.47 ft) and a length of 100 meters (328 ft.) so a ship of the size
would use a 13cm micro-torpedo and there is both micro-photons and micro-quantums
and with the size she could hold a few of them.
they are a burst fire micro-torpedo launcher and i could do the specs if you want NightShadow
This looks to be a vehicle of some member Planet that has not fully been folded into starfleet yet.
As for the torp launchers... yeah, I was thinking that they'd fire mini-torps like the ones that the runabouts are outfitted with. I also goofed up- the cannons on the bottom are actually supposed to be torpedo launchers, too.
And the impulse engines were meant to be big. The way I see it, a scout/border cutter needs to be highly maneuverable, right? Well, achieving warp doesn't really help much in a skirmish, but having powerful impulse engines and a nimble frame design DOES.
The ship is indeed VERY small. I expect that it handles a crew of about 15 at the very most. I'm building an interior for it right now, something very basic and self-contained. It'll have a bridge, barracks, mess/recreation hall, captain's ready room (which adjoins to his personal quarters), sick bay and engineering room- all on a single deck. Everything else above and below that deck will be devoted to storage and machinery.
Oh, and yes, I'm still in the Army. Doing AIT at Fort Gordon now. So, obviously, my time is rather limited. I don't know how long this project will take before it's done, but I'm quasi-committed to it for as long as it takes.
Thanks for the comments, praise and suggestions, guys! It was definitely more than I expected and was warmly received. I'll post more when I get more, as always.
That being said, I dig the shape of the ship. It doesn't look that bad
And thanks for the compliment on the design. This was originally going to be a freighter. I had designed it to be MUCH larger with cargo containers (removable) between the forward section and the aft engines (which explains why the engines were originally designed to be so large- more thrust for more mass/cargo). But my older brother asked me what it'd look like without the cargo containers and the intervening brackets, so I obliged and said to myself, "By golly, that looks pretty damned hot!" So I dropped the freighter design and moved forward with this instead. Interesting how some things come to be, isn't it? (not)
I've decided that I will reuse some of the parts from my Deepstar bridge project in the interest of saving time/effort. Some things, however, will have to be 100% original and new, like the consoles and stuff. When I get to the barracks and mess hall is when things ought to get really fun.
^What he said.
^What he said.
Good job though, :thumb:.
And here's some pics of the dropped frieghter design:
Could you show us a topview from the bridge design? I'm curious to how many space you have...