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Expect more updates on the Archive in the future.

I finally had the time and energy to finish my Type-6 shuttle mesh, which was 85% done but hadn't been worked on for months (if not more than a year at this point?). EDIT: OH MY GOD IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS!

All that was missing as far as modeling goes were the RCS thrusters, all the bottom details, the metal grates on the impulse exhausts, and some remaining hull panels. I resisted the urge to add further paneling and stuff like that, and the details are a mix of the full size prop and the studio models, I just picked the details I liked the most of each.

Afterwards, I created two texture sets for it: a TNG one for the Lalo, and a VOY one for the Appalachia. Besides the obvious different markings, the Appalachia shuttle has a slightly darker hull color, and the yellow elements were turned orange as was the case on the Voyager studio model.

Guess I'll have to do the shuttlebays for both ships now.

@solaremes: Thanks! Not really intended for the two rooms to share the general shape, but you're right; though ironically they don't share any structural element.

@Captain Serek: Thanks!

@DoctorShmullus: Thank you so much! Haha, the Appalachia engineering will have to wait a bit, but I'll tackle it sooner or later.

@Aresius: Hahaha well the video is quite pixelated to me, certainly not on the level of some other video renders posted on the site.

Two different projects in this post, so make sure to scroll past the first batch of images!

Okey, after months of having it 99% complete but waiting for confirmation, here's the final design for the bridge of the USS Lafayette which was started back in July. Since the last time I posted about it, the ceiling was redesigned to mimic the lines of the Enterprise-D bridge, but with some elements from the Odyssey at the back.

The colors were also changed drastically, with a colder pallet all around in both the carpets and LCARS. The end result is certainly a mix of eras (which was the intention of the client, as the ship was quickly pressed back into service after being decommissioned for years).

I might do my own variation on it someday to represent the USS Kyushu, with a much older 2350's style in mind; but for now, enjoy the Lafayette bridge! I've got two more longstanding commissions moving again and nearing completion, so I sincerely hope to have more updates on that front soon!









Now onto a personal project, I started work on the USS Potemkin ready room. On TNG the idea of the ready room was to be a private "home away from home" for the Captain when they might be needed quickly on the bridge; as that their quarters were located 9 decks and half a saucer away.

Given the older frame of the Excelsior-Class, there's not much space nor need for a ready room next to the bridge, so instead it's on deck 2, directly connected to the Captain's quarters. In a sense, it is thus more of an office/study. But given that it's where the Captain would have private talks with visiting dignitaries or crew members, I chose to keep the name. It's located near the front of the deck, with a single round window looking out into space:


And here's how it looks so far. The door at the center is the entrance/exit into the corridor, while the little alcove with the replicator connects to the quarters internally. As you can see I added the same lighting fixtures that Picard's ready room had next to the replicator in a similar position here. I'm planning to add small tables at the ends of the sofa, plus a painting or map chart of some sort hanged above it. Maybe I'll have a ship model of the Potemkin itself next to the door, and some plants. Still unsure what to add on the wall where the desk is placed though, and several details such as spotlights remain to be added. What do you think so far?

I have to stop saying I'll do several of these in quick succession hahaha, it's been a month and a half and I had the itch to do something totally different yesterday, so I started work on my first starship corridor system, for the USS Yeager. I did a few short corridor segments before, but this is a full "stage". The style I'm going for, like the rest of the Yeager, is mostly inspired on the Enterprise-E, but with some Defiant and original elements mixed in.

It's still quite early (again, I started this yesterday), but the general layout is in place. The lift is mostly done other than LCARS and capsule labels. The small corridor leading up to it is also nearly finished. The wider corridor however is quite unfinished, for now it's walls are just copies of the thinner corridor style walls, but I intend to modify them with handrails, access panels, more doors need to be added, etc. The carpet's unfinished as well, I have no idea yet what pattern or colors I'll use on it.

Overall I'm quite happy with how fast this was to do, I created everything in a modular fashion so it's just cloned segments which auto-update when one's modified; super easy to add more segments, modify the layout, etc. And the whole thing's just 1.5 MB in size!

@BolianAdmiral: Thanks!

I've added more details to the ceiling and some spotlights, plus designed the wall behind the desk, once again trying to find a balance between the TNG, Voy and Ent-E aesthetics.

I've also added the handrail between the two levels, which after several iterations I decided works best as a single curved rail in the middle of the room, which people can use to help themselves either down or up from each side.

Thoughts?

Slowly but surely doing more of the LCARS...

@Rory1707: Yeah, I originally intended to have a red alert indicator there, though it didn't work out as I wanted, and making the ship's schematic turn red doesn't look good IMO. I'll keep experimenting with red alert stuff tomorrow.

@BolianAdmiral: Indeed, that indicator was there all through the series, and on the original 'The Search' version of the bridge all stations had one identical to that one above the keyboards, they were removed for subsequent episodes.

I did one final change to the bridge as I had all the labels indicating this is deck 1, despite the bridge on the Akira being on deck 4, so I've corrected this. The red alert thingy I wanted to do didn't work as I planned, I'll try some more stuff for it tomorrow. In the meantime, here are the finished 'green alert' renders!

Thanks for the feedback!

I included the aforementioned carpet pattern on the upper level, but that's it as far as changes, here's the finished room!

Thanks for all the comments, I'm glad you liked the Type 6!

@Rusty0918: I'm afraid I'm not taking requests, no

@lennier1: Would love to see it too!

Had to do this one as well, didn't I? I intended to finish it during the weekend, but I had other priorities as my partner had been hospitalized for a few weeks, and was given the weekend to return home for a bit, so I spent little time on the PC.

Modeling's mostly done, but I still have to do all the textures. This one will be for the USS Victory.

Thanks Rory!

Here are a ton of renders of the finished corridor. I might still do a red alert version, but at this point I'm a bit burned out of this set, been staring at it for too long hahaha.

@richiewilch: The starboard door goes directly to the ready room, while the other one leads to the bridge through a short corridor. I haven't measured the remaining space on deck 1, there might be space left to add an additional room connected through that corridor, maybe a toilet or simply an extra turbolift.

So, I finally bit the bullet and modeled the Ent-E observation lounge chairs (HÅG Signét 8400). @Donny helped me out with this one by providing some references of his own model, though I didn't went full-on with the realistic details such as screws and all that, I tend to imagine these as futuristic versions with no need for such 20th century details. I might tweak them a bit more (Blender's cloth sculpting is just too fun, I go back and forth between adding too many wrinkles and not enough hahaha) but overall I'm happy with how they turned out.

Other than that, I've added a few more details to the walls and light sconces. Plus as you can see both the chairs and the fabric edges of the screen are now a nice dark pink color, I wanted to expand the colors I've used on the Appalachia bridge, and I think this works quite well.