Road Warrior

SCE2Aux wrote: »

Road Warrior wrote: »

Some questions if I may...

Your Vega is fantastic! Once finished will you do variants of it as well?

Also, you have spoken about the design of the Enterprise being quite good considering the constraints Doug Drexler had to deal with. My question is have you thought about what your version of the Enterprise would look like in this more realistic setting?

I don't know if I'll get around to finishing that old Vega freighter model - The mesh is in fairly good shape, but I don't know if I want to spend the time to texture it. Besides, I've kitbashed several of Vega's components to do this years's modifications to Reliant and its Defiant sub-type, as well as the shuttlepod. I can definitely see myself slapping some simple tileable textures onto the model and have it as a background ship though.

I've been working on these models for a good long while now though, and I don't want to get burnt out on it. As I said in a previous post, I'm planning on doing a series of renders with the models I've currently got, and then I'm looking forward to getting stuck into something new.

As for what I'd do if I tried to come up with my personal spin on the NX-01 Enterprise, I'd probably keep the catamaran hull idea because it's very cool, but bulk out all the shapes so it loses the Akira DNA. It's tempting to go with a spherical primary hull, but honestly it's so difficult to light a ship well with that big sphere on the front haha. Then I'd cover the hull with all manner of details you see on real spacecraft (sensor fixtures, antennaes, thrusters, thermal protection etc etc.) Also I'd probably get influenced by NuGalactica/Expanse with its point-defence systems as opposed to shield's, polarized hulls and the like.

I roughed out an idea years ago which keeps the spirit of Drexler's design, but loses the Akira vibe. Yet another unfinished project, unfortunately: