Hey alls Miss me? LOL I doubt it. Anyway this is a WIP i've been working on for far too long, and I probably will never finish it. Everytime I get it to where I like it I either find an error or change my mind as to what I like about it. Well anyway I have not toyed with it since I got illustrator so I figured what the hell . Here is an elevation. Still lot to do to it obvously but what I'm looking for are comments on the secondary hull. I think it's better than the original, but that could be just me.
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The reason for all the windows is because it has a lot of decks. 69 to be exact. It's a little shorter than a Romulan Warbird (80 something decks), but longer with nacells.
Thanks. The Tech manual I've been working on has it as the only ship of the class to be produced
I like the original fan tail slope more too, where it has a much more angled set of shuttle bay doors. I was also surprised to see that the secondary hull isn't flared outward, as with the Galaxy Class, since the ship has such significant resemblance to it.
I noticed that the nacelles aren't lined up the same way they are on the side view as they are on the front view. On the side view you actually have them higher. Placing them properly in comparison to the side view will let a little intake be seen over the saucer. You don't have to follow the rules perfectly because quite a few canon ships don't follow them perfectly. I'm pretty sure Voyager almost completely hides its nacelles behind the saucer during flight, and the Defiant's nacelles can't see each other, across the hull, at all. The Sovereign hides quite a bit of nacelle behind its saucer too.
IAâll work on the aft flight-deck doors. I agree the original there is far superior. I tried to use the elliptical AâeyeAâ shaped hull and I could never get it to look right. I think it has to do with the widest part being about 2/3 up the hull rather roughly center. It was not until I tried a rounder shape did it come together.
The original design was really a kit-bash from Galaxy, Excelsior, and Delta Flyer classes. In this updated design I wanted to break free from that and get more original. Especially since I have superior drawing programs and far greater experience and confidence in the way ships should be designed. I was actually thinking it was starting to take on a more Ambassador look to it now, especially with the angled profile that the bow now presents.
I rechecked the pylons, and you are right. They were off slightly vertically and horizontally. I corrected the problem as well as pylon thickness. I also pulled them wider giving the pylons less angle. When I originally set the angles I did so with out the saucer, and it looked really bad being spread out so far. There should be bussard exposure, however I donAât want much because I like how the forward profile looks as is.
I guess I should thank REL777 for letting me borrow a picture of his enterprise so I can eyedropper it. Created a set of 8 colors from it Base light, Base, Base dark. Med light, Med, Med Dark, and Dark light, Dark.
I love it...
Wonderful work, mate. Nice :thumb:
Cheers,
Nick
Grrr... That was coincidental and they were supposed to be completely original. I'll have to consider a new design. When I was designing them I was looking at the Nova-Class nacelles there were on it and the Sovy Nacelles from my AMT model, with the NX class in mind since it really belongs in the 24th century anyway.
Yeah, she's a thru-deck carrier. Not sure what an integrated flightpod is though. Thanks for your comments
Vipers are launched along the bow structure, and it still baffles me how they launch from an area almost a kilometre from the flightpods... But it looks awesome so I'm not complaining.
Correct me if I'm wrong! It's freaking 12:24 AM, I'm exhausted, and I've been watching Babylon five in the last three days, I may be wrong...!
No there's nothing like that on the Erebus. Launch and reciving is coordinated though the A-Conn (Auxillary Craft Control) on the main bridge. The A-Con officer coordinates with the helm to allow launch and reciving of fighters away from the enemy when a "hole" in the shields are created. Transport inhibitors in errected to prevent beam-ins and the exposed areas are reinforced with more ablative armor to protect the hull just in case the enemy get's a lucky shot off.
Thanks. So thats one vote for and one vote again. So unless I get any more complaints I'll keep them
OK now for a challange, because I'm stuck. I can't seem to get the bloody connecting neck to look right. I could use some suggetions as this is really stopping the process. :mad: