Ambassador Class WIP

[Soran77]

It's been a long time, I have had many real life issues, I had to find a new apartment, and I had a catastrophic data loss last December. So I'm building new models and I'm going to be rebuilding old models from images I have up online. This is a new model for me, it's my first attempt at the Ambassador Class, Still have much detailing to do, but this is my progress so far!

Hope you enjoy it

 

[Blip]

Sorry to hear about your RL troubles Model's looking good though, I love the Ambassador in all her chunkyness

The impulse engine looks a little off IIRC, and the nacelles wider apart, but the latter I think is an improvement as it gets the bussards out of the way of the saucer

 

[Soran77]

@Blip

Sorry to hear about your RL troubles Model's looking good though, I love the Ambassador in all her chunkyness

The impulse engine looks a little off IIRC, and the nacelles wider apart, but the latter I think is an improvement as it gets the bussards out of the way of the saucer

Yes I really wanted to make them out of the way, and this is intended to be a bit of an upgrade, there was a book series years ago I believe called "New Voyages" and they had an aging ambassador class starship as the main ship, so I took a little liberties and also added some features from the upgraded startrek online refit version, the buzzard collectors specifically!

 

[Blip]

Good idea! I prefer the Yamaguchi type bussards over the originals, too

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I have always loved this version on the Ambassador-Class, looks far more substantial and robust that the observation lounge wall one.

 

[Soran77]

So bit of changes, fixed the impulse engines, and brought the nacelles where they should be. They are a tad lower just so the saucer obstruction isn't so bad

 

[Finn]

Awesome pictures...

the title needs fixin'....

 

[Soran77]

IDK if I can edit the title

 

[Soran77]

I see the typo though

 

[Soran77]

@Michael can we get a correction on the spelling for my thread, it was my bad on the typo. Thanks in advance!

 

[Santaman]

Bad typo, good ship!

 

[Michael]

@Michael can we get a correction on the spelling for my thread, it was my bad on the typo. Thanks in advance!

Fixed.

 

[USS Firefly]

Looks great!

 

[SCE2Aux]

She's a beauty, very neat modelling, and I'm glad you've incorporated some Yamaguchi style alterations to it: In my opinion the lowering of the nacelles on the Yamaguchi makes the whole ship look very purposeful, whereas the Enterprise-C variant looked a bit ungainly. What a difference such a small change can make!

There are better shots, and more info on the Yamaguchi variant here:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/ambassador1.htm

 

[Blip]

I love those new aft shots; great job!

 

[Soran77]

Some more updates, lowered the nacelles more, added the lower deck under the shuttlebay, fixed the neck making it thinner at the front (Still not as thin as I want it, but it's hard geometry for sketchup to handle) also raised the pylon deck.. see the comparison image.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Nailed it! Do you have any plans for texture maps?

 

[Soran77]

Nailed it! Do you have any plans for texture maps?

I wish I was that good at texturing, I mean it's ready now to get textures, but I am not good at all at texturing or making my own textures, I usually paint the models in sketchup, but this one should have the texture treatment. Unfortunately it most likely won't

 

[BK613]

Nice to see you back at it, @Soran77

 

[Soran77]

@BK613 yeah, had some serious personal stuff go down, needless to say on top of the data loss last december, I lost my whole life in the 'divorce'