TOS Era Shuttle Carrier

[Patrickivan]

Here's a little ship I've been working on this weekend. The paint is just a placeholder for the images here. It's a big ship. It has 2 large shuttle decks each port and starboard in the saucer. Each can be closed off with isolation doors. The port and starboard decks have an access corridor large enough for most shuttle types.

It has four nacelles that I stole from the diplomatic vessel... (Sigh- I wish all my old stuff hadn't been lost)... Engineering is large to accomodate regulating the 4 engines, power transfer from the nacelles, and the 4 big impulse engines.

It's not super fast. It has decent defencive shields and weapons, but nothing that would stand up in a big fight.

I'm still working on it... Here's half of her.






I've thrown in a few of a shuttle I've been working on.

Anyone like? Dislike? More to come if anyone is interested.

 

[TheLoneRedshirt]

I like it, though I feel the nacelles are too far back. Perhaps if they were moved forward slightly on the pylons if would look more balanced.

The primary hull is reminiscent of the Constellation-class (e.g. USS Stargazer). The design allows for launch/recovery from multiple vectors - good idea.

Nice views with the shuttle inside. Good work!

 

[Kaiser]

Nice Precursor to the Constellation class there

 

[publiusr]

Reminds me a lot of the early Excelsior study models.

 

[Patrickivan]

I like it, though I feel the nacelles are too far back. Perhaps if they were moved forward slightly on the pylons if would look more balanced.

The primary hull is reminiscent of the Constellation-class (e.g. USS Stargazer). The design allows for launch/recovery from multiple vectors - good idea.

Nice views with the shuttle inside. Good work!

I toyed with moving them forward, but couldn't reconcile that with my main engineering location and the principal of having the nacelles away from the ship due to the volitile nature of them.

I do agree that there is certainly a more balanced look to having them moved ahead...

Nice Precursor to the Constellation class there

Thanks- though I obviously was inspired by the Constellation Class, that was were it ended. There is no intend of lineage. They just have similar design features, not unlike many other vessels.

Reminds me a lot of the early Excelsior study models.

I was hoping someone would notice that! There was certainly a conscious choice on my part there. Particularly that long stretched out trailing engineering section, as opposed to a chubby underslung secondary hull...

I pretty much just wanted to make something different, but that still looks very familiar.