Atolm's Federation Concept Sketches and Musings...

[blssdwlf]

The Archer-class is what I envision the Asgard (SG-1) would build for Starfleet.

 

[Atolm]

Such awesome arts hope someday they hire you to make ships for them

Thanks. If they haven't by now, then they are not likely too.

Your Andromeda-class is lovely, @Atolm. Very elegant. It reminds me of the constellation Cygnus. And the configuration of your Archer-class is intriguing - vertical nacelles are the new black!
Speaking of nacelles, those of your Ares-class are very sleek.

Thanks.
I rather enjoy designing nacelles... to me they are just as important as the ship itself... And I'll be posting some nacelles.
Also, the Archer was finished as a full design...

The Archer-class is what I envision the Asgard (SG-1) would build for Starfleet.

Indeed XD

 

[Atolm]

Nacelles!

 

[publiusr]

Nacelles are the toughest things to draw.

 

[Atolm]

Nacelles are the toughest things to draw.

I believe it is how you approach it. For me when I design a ship, I look at it from 4 parts:
1-Overall shape you may have
2-Saucer, or lack of one
3-Hull or lack of one
4-Nacelles and how they fit the 2nd or 3rd options (at first the general shape and how it fits with the overall ship's shape. Then just designing it as you would the ship's other components. Remember, the Nacelle is its own character.)
Hope that helps.

 

[Yuri Nikolayev]

I love the Maddox android. The Archer reminds me somewhat of the Asgard SG1 ships. And I like the Ares sketches.

 

[Atolm]

I love the Maddox android. The Archer reminds me somewhat of the Asgard SG1 ships. And I like the Ares sketches.

Thanks!

 

[Atolm]

Avenger prototype:

TOS Warship concept:

Lost Era Dreadnought:

Bridge Module Concept:

TOS Mobile Dock:

 

[Yuri Nikolayev]

That TOS warship is sexy.

 

[publiusr]

Loving that Dreadnought—the only one that looked sleek

 

[Atolm]

That TOS warship is sexy.

Thanks.
I wound up only getting a refined Side-view completed:

Loving that Dreadnought—the only one that looked sleek

Thanks a lot!

 

[Atolm]

Bradbury-class study

Constitution-class variants study

Corsair-class

USS Crichton study

Federation Cruiser

Crux-class study

Federation Cutter

TNG Federation Cutter and axillary dropship

 

[Firebird]

Abso-friggen-lutely amazing work, Atolm!

 

[Atolm]

Abso-friggen-lutely amazing work, Atolm!

Thanks. More to come.

 

[publiusr]

I like the Connie 3rd from the bottom—quite rakish

 

[BK613]

Thanks.
I wound up only getting a refined Side-view completed:

I remember this one.
You posted this view ages ago by itself and I was inspired to dinked around in Sketchup on a version—minus the pass-through nacelles—that was more of a Excelsior-shaped ship with the same engine arrangement as that ship (I really liked the 'cab-forward' bridge and sensor placement suggested by this view).
Then you posted other views and I moved on to other things.
I'll look around this week and see if I still have those files on one of my portable hard-drives.

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This is what I imagined based on that side view, the Excelsior's baby brother :

 

[Atolm]

I like the Connie 3rd from the bottom—quite rakish

Thanks... You should see more as this thread continues...

I remember this one.
You posted this view ages ago by itself and I was inspired to dinked around in Sketchup on a version—minus the pass-through nacelles—that was more of a Excelsior-shaped ship with the same engine arrangement as that ship (I really liked the 'cab-forward' bridge and sensor placement suggested by this view).
Then you posted other views and I moved on to other things.
I'll look around this week and see if I still have those files on one of my portable hard-drives.

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This is what I imagined based on that side view, the Excelsior's baby brother :

Very sexy!

 

[Atolm]

Shuttle-carrier saucer concept

Moebius-Type (Cyclops-Class Development [also a morphic cruiser study in the first image] )

Actualized Cyclops-class

 

[Michael]

@Atolm, did you see this month’s Art Forum Challenge? This one could be a homerun for you, actually.

 

[Atolm]

@Atolm, did you see this month’s Art Forum Challenge? This one could be a homerun for you, actually.

As you know I did, but at the time of this posting, I had no idea... So just a happy coincidence I would say.