Any New Drawings Of The Marshall-class Destroyer?

[Romwarnut]

Hi, all. Have any of you here ever tried drawing your own personal interpretation of the Earth 'hammerhead'-style Romulan War-era Marshall-class Destroyer? That is to say, have any of you given it your own 'tweaks'? Like making it look more 'cylinder-like' the way the Earth ships look at the Starfleet Museum, or even just adding Daedalus-type engines to it, for instance? I read somewhere that this design is sometimes regarded as "The Akira of the Earth-Romulan War"-- is that a good remark, or is it an awkward invite to flamewars? Just curious about this curious ship, and what some of you artists would envision it to be. Thanks.

-- Dave

 

[SonicRanger]

Check out this page:

http://www.fleetyard.net/engineering/drawingboard/index.php

 

[Masao]

The fat ships in the Starfleet Museum were designed with the idea that they needed to maximize internal volume for carrying a large of amount of fuel to power their less-efficient fusion engines. The ships of the Spaceflight Chronology are powered by antimatter, so look very different. I'm not sure the two technologies can be combined.

 

[Romwarnut]

Thanks for the replies. Masao, the 'fat ship' description you gave makes a good deal of sense. There less efficient, so they are like "a large fuel tank with a ship built around it". Sonic, the site you gave me was a dead end '404', sorry. I hope there are some more opinions out there.

--Dave

 

[SonicRanger]

Sonic, the site you gave me was a dead end '404', sorry. I hope there are some more opinions out there.

Huh. It was there yesterday.

 

[shipfisher]

If you shave off all but www.fleetyard.net on the link above, you discover Mr. Doddema has chosen June 12th to bin the existing content of the site and restart it as a blog. I saved that Marshall class drawing years ago but that was a drive or two back.