IA’m bring back to life an old ship from the well known wolfpack member named Eric Peterson.
The Apollo class was an Ambassador variant built by Eric in 1998, and the mesh isnA’t a public release. Just a bunch of peoples has the mesh.
Matten Greenway, other wolfpack member, was kind enough to provide me a few renderings of that old mesh, and now IA’m trying to build a new version of her.
The main blocks are all in place, and IA’ll start to add details aas my free time permits. Hope that you like.
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not sure i like those nacelles
Interesting idea to have the secondary hull so small relative to the saucer. I think that's going to work. I like the nacelles so far. I believe in letting the nacelles pretty much stay the same when you "bash" a class. I don't think the gun barrels work. They look out of scale on such a large ship. I would come up with something with a different shape, a more tech look. Of course, you may not feel like taking liberties if you are copying previous work.
Great work so far!
You have the right to be silent. You have the right to wear your nacelles low. You have the right to a rollbar....
Nice start and nice Mateen Greenway render (I was always a fan of his back in the Wolf days ). Amazingly, I don't think I've ever seen that ship from an aftward angle. I had no idea what that shuttle bay looked like.
Thank you all for the kind words. IAâll try not to disapoint you.;)
Basill: Yes, the mesh was lost by Eric. I tryed to have a copy of this mesh years ago when he posted a message here at SFM telling us the mesh was lost. But... later I found MateenAâs site and a rendering with this mesh was there. Mateen still has the original mesh and was kind enough doing me renderings of her, so, now I can build my own. Already forgot... one of the legends from Wolfpack, Mateen is a member here.
About the sec hull, yes, it is out of scale. Need to redo it.
About the naceles, they are the ones from Ent-C just flipped down, as envizioned by Eric.
About the weapons, IAâll take a look.
Hope to have an update later today. LetAâs see.
Simpler times?? yeah, right... Always had to check your affiliations back them and to which group your loyalty belongs. Glad these times are out, not to mention it was lonely back then - few people had a 3d program and you would need to be someone's apprentice just to learn how to do serious stuff...
Anyway, as for the ship... I love the concept alot and that split platform is just an awesome thing.
However, I believe the secondary hull would look nicer with a round dish, like the one on the ambassador.
can't wait to see more!
Thank you Nir!
The sec hull was redone, and now I believe itAâs perfect!
I still need to redo the plataform and the pylons in one piece, more like the Ent-C.
Ignore the lights, cause they are just temp ones to point mesh errors (IAâm happy that no one was pointed ).
my Carina class is very similar :thumb:
Oh yes, I saw her. Well executed!
In fact, it was what made me to remember this old project of mine. Since now I have blueprints of this old lady, the project can go ahead.
- The pylons and the plateau were redone in just one piece.
- The sensors were redone
- mesh erros were corrected
- the original version donAât had a neck, but my version will have a small one.
ItAâs better?
The neck and the torpedo launcher were redone to look more TNGish.
Progress is slow, I know, but sheAâs surelly taking shape.
Added the bridge, pods, phaser stripes, a new neck, and a "ring" to the front of the sec hull.
Added the thrusters, and started to play with colors.
And so ... I really like the direction you are taking with this one -- especially the mission pod.