Mech's Assorted Trek Stuff (mostly 3d models, some art)
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In progress interior for the next in setting design, built to get hull numbers up:
Basically a Neo-NX which I find very amusing.
They're also stealing a march on the T'liss, as that giant red thing in the front there is a first generation plasma torpedo launcher.
Basically a Neo-NX which I find very amusing.
They're also stealing a march on the T'liss, as that giant red thing in the front there is a first generation plasma torpedo launcher.
Things people almost never think about:
Stairs take up loads and loads and LOADS of space. All that magenta in the neck? Stairs, stairs, and more stairs. It's basically all stairs and elevators in there. And I actually had to pretty significantly build up the sides of the neck just so it would all FIT in there. (yes, going to the engineering hull when the elevator's broke is 6-8 stories worth of stairs, depending on where you're going. hope you didn't skip leg day.)
Stairs take up loads and loads and LOADS of space. All that magenta in the neck? Stairs, stairs, and more stairs. It's basically all stairs and elevators in there. And I actually had to pretty significantly build up the sides of the neck just so it would all FIT in there. (yes, going to the engineering hull when the elevator's broke is 6-8 stories worth of stairs, depending on where you're going. hope you didn't skip leg day.)
For a bit of scale, a couple of guys standing in the Fun Room™ (Antimatter Containment):
(You can just barely see the fellow on the lower level.)
She's not as big as a Connie, but she's a pretty big ship, in absolute terms!
starting to get into the big blocky spaces too:
Like the hydro systems (storage, reclamation, aquaponics...
...Cargo bays actually big enough to hold months of supplies for over a hundred people so it can actually get anywhere.
("not enough Cargo Bay" is a common cardinal sin of science fiction ships. Can't just pop down to the grocer for more tomato sauce or the local home and garden for more bolts when you're three months from the nearest port, you gotta carry that stuff with you. And I cheat a bit since I throw in the wombo combo of aquaponics and airponics for high-density food production, so it's not all hardtack and jam, and machine shops so they can fab parts on the spot if they can get the materials. Later Trek can get away with smaller cargo bays, because Replicators mean you don't have to carry food mass and most spare parts, but these are pre-replicators so need the big bays.)
(You can just barely see the fellow on the lower level.)
She's not as big as a Connie, but she's a pretty big ship, in absolute terms!
starting to get into the big blocky spaces too:
Like the hydro systems (storage, reclamation, aquaponics...
...Cargo bays actually big enough to hold months of supplies for over a hundred people so it can actually get anywhere.
("not enough Cargo Bay" is a common cardinal sin of science fiction ships. Can't just pop down to the grocer for more tomato sauce or the local home and garden for more bolts when you're three months from the nearest port, you gotta carry that stuff with you. And I cheat a bit since I throw in the wombo combo of aquaponics and airponics for high-density food production, so it's not all hardtack and jam, and machine shops so they can fab parts on the spot if they can get the materials. Later Trek can get away with smaller cargo bays, because Replicators mean you don't have to carry food mass and most spare parts, but these are pre-replicators so need the big bays.)
For the stairs, it's a bit difficult to tell what the details are on that. Obviously it's not the triangle ladder shaft from TOS. But are you going for a full OSHA approved stairwell like in an office building, or something more like a modern naval ship's narrow steep stairs?
There's some ladder usage, for example the bridge connects to deck 1 by a pair of ladder shafts, and Antimatter Containment has a similar pair that connect to the back of Main Engineering, I just try to avoid that for any actual high-traffic connections where possible, because it's only really practical to get maybe four or five people at a time down a one-meter ladder shaft that's only approximately six to seven meters tall, and that would be a pretty big hazard if someone slips.
these are full standard stairwells (because safety); three by six meters in footprint. Too-Narrow spaces are a safety hazard, and when you're operating in space, weeks from help, you take any opportunity to mitigate potential hazards (even if the stairs/ladders are, really, a backup system, and most people are going to be using the Turbolifts to get around.)
And from a space-survival perspective, each stairwell is a decently sized isolated compartment you can potentially shelter in, at least for a few hours.
It's similar to how you never have to go more than a couple of decks up or down to reach the nearest escape pods, and there's a fair amount of redundancy in terms of number of pods to nominal establishment.
It's a starship, especially it's a starship in the early days of the Federation, where Warp Seven is considered fast still and ship lines tend to get built in batches of like five at a time, with total hull counts of less than half a hundred. They're not in the "Let's just build a dozen Excelsiors every four months for the rest of forever" funland yet ha
(For another comparison, most of the internal corridors are two meters in diameter, to allow comfortable bidirectional traffic. These are not small constructions by any means whatsoever.)
You generally either self-rescue, or you hope Starfleet can divert a ship before the air/water/food/tolerance for being stuck in a ~3 meter box with three other people runs out.
I like the way you illustrate the interior, very clean and clear.
Getting close now, should be sticking the fork in it tomorrow.
She's starting to get her kibble finished, gonna mostly be her paint tomorrow.
What are the flat round things on either side of the saucer?
The one with the beveled top is her main cistern (that's two decks tall); the other one is the Aquaponics bay on Deck 3 and her water reclamation plant on Deck 4.
And really, it's just a very basic block-out with different colors to make it easier to read.
anyway, actually did finish, though I still have the last two decks in the Engineering Hull to label.
"Don't talk to me or my son ever again"
(Endeavors are just SO BEEG)
Incidentally, the new ship has a crew complement of 122 personnel, spilt between 8 senior officers, 16 junior officers, and 98 enlisted. It's also the first Starfleet ship built with Phasers from the start in its origin timeline, though the Endeavors are getting their Phase Cannon batteries replaced as part of their 20-year refit.