Help me visualize this.....

[The Castellan]

I had a dream this morning, and saw a TOs style ship. It had the saucer in front, with a long, boxy middle structure. That part was in 2 sections...the rear half being a bit taller than the front half. Also, the warp drive pods were on pylons, but the pylons were in a type of sweft wing design, and attached to the sides of the boxy main section, while the saucer was somewhat fused to the front of the main section. Length had to be similar to a maybe.....10% longer than a Constitution I think.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Patrickivan]

I just visuallized that. You sick bastard!!!

 

[Ian Keldon]

Something like this?

 

[The Castellan]

not quite....pylons were the other direction, and the body part was taller, and narrower. and the saucer was more foreward, more of the circumference was seen.

 

[Albertese]

The saucer is in the very front. How does it get 'more forward'?

--Alex

 

[The Castellan]

The saucer is in the very front. How does it get 'more forward'?

--Alex

Think where the impulse housing is normally at, that's where it joins the boxy part, and maybe a small amount of the side near it as well.

 

[newtontomato539]

Perfect. What the Avenger/Miranda Class should have been instead of a Romulan TOS BOP ripoff.

 

[Ian Keldon]

Would it be correct to say this is going too far the other way?

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Ian if you lower those engines you get a federation version
of the Ktinga Class

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Something like this?

This is nice any way we can get the front view done also

 

[Ian Keldon]

Ian if you lower those engines you get a federation version
of the Ktinga Class

The comparison is inevitable, true, but I was actually inspired by the 70s Legion of Superheroes Mk10 cruiser

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9sxG4KSbRjQ/Td5xiPz8inI/AAAAAAAAIC8/m6VZFHtPDSQ/s1600/superboy219L.jpg

 

[Ian Keldon]

This is nice any way we can get the front view done also

At some point I might finish it...I was just throwing together a quickie concept.

 

[The Castellan]

Would it be correct to say this is going too far the other way?

Almost there , just make the neck 3 times thicker, and the rear hull the same, no angles on it....the neck and rear hull were pretty much the same sizes, just the rear hull was a little bit taller than the connecting piece.

 

[Vektor]

Sounds a little like my old U.E.S. Vanguard, though I now realize your mid-section "in two parts" had a somewhat different meaning.

 

[The Castellan]

Sounds a little like my old U.E.S. Vanguard, though I now realize your mid-section "in two parts" had a somewhat different meaning.

You could say that, the saucer and rear body thicknesses are spot on there. I'd say fill in the gap, make the rear 50% of the rectangular hull a little taller, extend the pylons to a more TOS length, and we might have it.

 

[backstept]

Sounds a little like my old U.E.S. Vanguard, though I now realize your mid-section "in two parts" had a somewhat different meaning.

this is one of my favorites

 

[TrekkieMonster]

Sounds a little like my old U.E.S. Vanguard, though I now realize your mid-section "in two parts" had a somewhat different meaning.

this is one of my favorites

Me too. I miss this little bulldog of a ship.

 

[sojourner]

Sounds a little like my old U.E.S. Vanguard, though I now realize your mid-section "in two parts" had a somewhat different meaning.

Dammit Vektor, I miss some of your older stuff. I wish you had a gallery online.

 

[Vektor]

Maybe I'll post some retrospectives.

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Ian if you lower those engines you get a federation version
of the Ktinga Class

The comparison is inevitable, true, but I was actually inspired by the 70s Legion of Superheroes Mk10 cruiser

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9sxG4KSbRjQ/Td5xiPz8inI/AAAAAAAAIC8/m6VZFHtPDSQ/s1600/superboy219L.jpg

Damn now that you showed me that picture I remember that I use to read a lot of comics in my younger days
you know if you federationize that ship on s smaller scale
use the Burke class frigate hull and engines it would make
a nice heavy frigate or Destroyer