Well Folks,
I'm back. As some might have been aware, I departed 4 months ago for the United States Navy's Officer Candidate School. Three weeks ago I returned home a newly commissioned ensign. It was and remains the best decision of my life.
Now enough about that. Lets get to the art. My next project can most likely be guessed between the title of the thread and the image. Hope you enjoy watching this one shape up.
Medium View:
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/275/7/4/the_great_experiment____by_madeinjapan1988-d2zyujp.jpg
Full View:
http://www.deviantart.com/download/181344805/the_great_experiment____by_madeinjapan1988-d2zyujp.jpg
Posts
Ow and hope to see more updates on Chronicles of Man as well
FULL SIZE: http://www.deviantart.com/download/181394623/the_great_experiment__in_color_by_madeinjapan1988-d2zzwzj.jpg
I'll be following this.
Nice work with the JJ-xelsior
I like your concept, very clean and nice lines, very well done. I find that saucer section, though, does have some lines that are still a bit Ol'Excelsior. I find, your earlier amazing starship designs were quite more Josh. If I may, take a look a "Don't Shoots" concept of the same. I hope it can provide more food for thought.
In all honesty... I'm not really a fan of that nacelle. It has too much Enterprise written all around it and not so much Excelsior, apart from being long and big: there's no grille on top, no blue streak running around, actually nothing at all that links it to it's Excelsior heritage. When comparing the two different nacelles of the Enterprise, you can find a certain "why" as to how it was designed; I'm missing that "why" feeling here.
The rest of the design, though, flows very naturally from one shape into the other; I'm digging that a lot, as that really reminds me of how the Excelsior looked when I saw it for the first time. Not too keen about more than halving the neck ribbing, but I guess I can live with that
How about having the nacelles break apart in the middle, and terminate into clusters of antenna like spikes? For a section 31 spy type ship?