Atolm's Federation Concept Sketches and Musings...

[FormerLurker]

What do you mean?

Don't tell me you've never had an AMT Enterprise model with droopy nacelles.

 

[Atolm]

i really like the support craft. it's tickling some memory of something, i think a ship in a novel based on Traveller?

thanks! I am unsure... I have old memories of playing traveller a couple of times way back when, so maybe?

Do you still have that one Sphere-hulled design from 3-4 years ago (Egads, that’s a trip down Memory Lane) that was pretty damn elegant? I think you had a drawing of it going into orbit around a planet or something similar… (Ship was to the left, planetoid to the right of the page/image)

She was a beaut!

Cheers,
-CM-

This one:

Don't tell me you've never had an AMT Enterprise model with droopy nacelles.

I have not. I have always used a metal armature in the nacelles to the pylons, through the hull, l and up into the neck to the saucer. The only AMT Enterprise I have never needed an armature was the TOS 3 ship set.

 

[FormerLurker]

For many a model-builder, the AMT Enterprise was frustrating. They'd put it together, and the glue would cure too slowly, making the engines sag backward and out. Putting it upside-down to set was the easiest way to attempt to counter that on their second attempt.

 

[Atolm]

For many a model-builder, the AMT Enterprise was frustrating. They'd put it together, and the glue would cure too slowly, making the engines sag backward and out. Putting it upside-down to set was the easiest way to attempt to counter that on their second attempt

Oh yeah, I have heard about the woes of both the TOS and especially the TMP Ent models over the years, but when I had made mine back in the day, I armatured the whole damned thing. It just seemed to be the right way to approach it. Especially since that was the way the filming models were done originally.

 

[Atolm]

@Colonel Midnight was that the pic that you were referring to?

 

[Colonel Midnight]

@Colonel Midnight was that the pic that you were referring to?

I think so but honestly… not sure. Damn grey hairs!

I don’t recall it looking quite so much like a rubber chicken (pardon the expression), I.e. with a long neck. That one is a pretty good design, still.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Atolm]

I think so but honestly… not sure. Damn grey hairs!

I don’t recall it looking quite so much like a rubber chicken (pardon the expression), I.e. with a long neck. That one is a pretty good design, still.

Cheers,
-CM-

lol... indeed.
This is the concept for the ship in the pic:

but in colour, and in a scene... the only one I have around that time was the one above and the Landau:

but without scenes, I have a few others... You could check my DA page... it is rather well organized.

 

[Santaman]

I like the rubber chicken! it's a good design, that it's so long makes it rather graceful.

The Landau is nice too, it looks like it can detach the sphere quite easily.

 

[Atolm]

I like the rubber chicken! it's a good design, that it's so long makes it rather graceful.

The Landau is nice too, it looks like it can detach the sphere quite easily.

lol... thanks a lot... ;p lol

 

[Atolm]

Here is another Sphere-hulled study...

TMP Long-Ranged Warp Shuttle or possible TMP Runabout:

TMP Experimental advanced hull study:
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[Firebird]

I really like that TMP-era Runabout, though some of the hull detailing seems a bit too John Eaves-esque.

 

[Santaman]

I like that sphere hulled studie, the Sphere O'Fear class..

That TMP Runabout-ish design is nice, might have a few greebles here and there but at least it doesn't point the impulse engines at the nacelles/pylons so its not that Eave-ish yet

 

[Atolm]

I really like that TMP-era Runabout, though some of the hull detailing seems a bit too John Eaves-esque.

glad, you like her, but I don't know what that means...

I like that sphere hulled studie, the Sphere O'Fear class..

That TMP Runabout-ish design is nice, might have a few greebles here and there but at least it doesn't point the impulse engines at the nacelles/pylons so its not that Eave-ish yet

lol... what? lol

 

[Firebird]

glad, you like her, but I don't know what that means...

The concept reminded me a bit of production illustrator John Eaves' style, like this sketch he did for the Argo shuttlecraft in Nemesis:

 

[Atolm]

The concept reminded me a bit of production illustrator John Eaves' style, like this sketch he did for the Argo shuttlecraft in Nemesis:

I still do not see the connection other than they are both Trek concepts. The designs are very different, as is the style.
But as I always tell people, you see what you see, I cannot help that. lol

 

[Atolm]

TNG Destroyer concept 00:

TNG Destroyer concept 01:

Tomahawk-class concept:

TOS Andor-Class redesign:

TOS starfleet shuttle carrier/evacuation vessel:

TOS Light Cruiser concept:

TOS Trident-class study (small romulan vessel idea in the bottom right corner):

TOS Conquistador-class study:

 

[Atolm]

TOS Starship idea:

TOS Dreadnought concept:

TOS escort concepts:

Continued Escort study, with a Klingon idea on the bottom-right:

TOS advanced hull study:

 

[korblborp]

i like the chonky boy at the bottom

TOS Voyagern't?

 

[Atolm]

i like the chonky boy at the bottom

TOS Voyagern't?

Thanks. I believe the vessel on the bottom was an idea for a Klingon Barge/Commerce vessel, etc...
If I remember correctly, the advanced hull was an idea for a plot device... the Vessel would never be produced, but was a proposal... due to the technology of the time it was an impasse to construct, and would be shelved until TNG when it it was the inspiration for the Intrepid.

 

[Atolm]

TOS Mobile Drydock concept:

TOS Police Cutter idea:

TOS Light Cruiser concept:

Hypothetical TOS Soulwolf concept: