There's another member here who uses the phrase "thread starter" in their sig line. Honestly, I've been around at the Sci-Fi Meshes site forever, but have never felt confident posting very much, mostly 'cause you guys rock and roll with your meshes and 3D designs, and I feel so inferior. So, I've started several meshes, but never finished one. This will be my first shot at trying to finish what I've started. One of these days I'll pull out some of the old meshes and finish a few... lol
I've previously been working on the ships from the ST:09 movies, and before that, I worked on a Federation/Vulcan hybrid.
In the mean time, school is about over, and I've had a wild hair to create something a little bit realistic. I thought, "lets explore the solar system around us rather than explore the distant stars that 'Stein says we'll never make it to in our lifetime..."
This mesh here is inspired by Masao's Pre-TOS ships, but is NOT meant to be part of the trek universe. It'll include an ion drive with a reactor chamber, no artificial gravity, but can conceivably tour the solar system for science and research purposes in months, rather than years. It would make regular stops back at earth, dock with the ISS or the Shuttle (I know, they're gonna stop using it, yeah, yeah...) to refuel and re-stock. The parts would be brought to earth orbit in sections using a Titan-type rocket. It would house a crew of about 16, including science personnel and command crew. The main hull would be composed of Titanium (unless someone can inform me of something stronger, lol... "Dangit Jim, I'm a physicist, not a chemist!"), with a ceramic foam layer, and a layer of aluminum.
I'll add updates pretty regularly, I hope... Comments and crits are welcome as usual... Thanks for looking!!
(p.s. I noticed after I'd posted this that none of the images have credits... I will update these images with credits at my next possible opportunity... My apologies!)