It's starting to look like something. (I literally didn't know what to make of it before) It's definitely a very interesting way of doing an agricultural ship.
not so keen on the saucer, it seems a little bit too plain, i have however seen proposed reentry vehicles of similar shape. not entirely sure if that new one will look as a model like i imagine it does as a drawing. if i am right...
you have crew section and a huge radio dish at the front(over on the right) then a neck structure with tubular pods around it. at the rear on the left 4 huge heat radiators each at 90 degrees to the others forming an x shape when viewed from the stern. big engines in the piece of the hull around which those radiators are arranged. the neck seems to be a truss structure of narrow beams rather than a solid hull.
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oh and i noticed the size, have you ever designed any small(10-50 metres) ships or are they all huge in your verse. with some modifications(to the "bridge" region at the right) this could shrink down to 30-50 m very nicely.
Yeah, the saucer could use some details, but most things I added made it look Federation-y. That's one of the reasons I put those huge window bays in the sides... very un-Federation-like.
There's maybe a couple of smaller craft that I've done. A scout early in this thread, and that space-to-space shuttle. To be honest, I mostly just throw numbers at the descriptions, and occasionally go back and update them. (I have a few smaller ship scribbles in the queue.)
The general idea I had for the new ship is the dish-thing to the right is the sub-light drive unit along with storage tanks. The rest of the ship is a bit up-in-the-air right now. I'm leaning toward making the 'wings' the trans-light drive units...
Hmm..an idea just occurred to me... I hope it works.
COOL! reaaly like the spine, when you get round to it you should detail up the tanks to the same level. is the ring thing at the front the sublight drive(i thought it was for ftl?), it looks very different to the shapes used in the spine region, maybe consider altering the dish into a bridge like in "2001 a space odyssey" or a hanging nose like a d'deridex from star trek. still very nice work.
Added a few things to the sublight drive, added the translight drive (the sail looking things), and added the basic shape for the front section, which I've decided to make a detachable lander.
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I'm mostly learning AutoCAD 3D as I go, (In 2D I can make it stand on it's hind legs and beg.) and mostly work with solids.
Not sure how I'll do the landscapes. There's some AutoCAD 3-D foliage blocks I may look at.
I rebuilt the domes.
Type: cruiser
Status: abandoned
Location: Caterwaul Corona battlefield
(Orion 022.90-01412.53)
Culture: Vaquensis Primus
Est. Age: 5,500 years
Size: 420m dia
Nickname: Cirque
The new one looks great so far, though.
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Tag: 0000 010091-0876144
Type: spacecraft, personnel hauler
Status: abandoned in low orbit
Location: Orphanworld 117, Lisle Cluster
(Orion 021.18-811110.43)
Culture: Resurgent
Est. Age: 1800 years
Size: 620m
Nickname: Pennon
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oh and i noticed the size, have you ever designed any small(10-50 metres) ships or are they all huge in your verse. with some modifications(to the "bridge" region at the right) this could shrink down to 30-50 m very nicely.
There's maybe a couple of smaller craft that I've done. A scout early in this thread, and that space-to-space shuttle. To be honest, I mostly just throw numbers at the descriptions, and occasionally go back and update them. (I have a few smaller ship scribbles in the queue.)
The general idea I had for the new ship is the dish-thing to the right is the sub-light drive unit along with storage tanks. The rest of the ship is a bit up-in-the-air right now. I'm leaning toward making the 'wings' the trans-light drive units...
Hmm..an idea just occurred to me... I hope it works.
Added framework and detailing to tanks.