'c' class dreadnought

[judge alba]

thought i'd inflict another design on you. this is a dreadnought version of the ambassodor class starship. inspred after i saw all good things tng episode the other day. this is a wip so she's not finished yet but i thought i'd show you how far i've got.

as you can see i've added the megaphaser and i have temp placed the third nacelle. also the impulse engines at the rear are temp placed, you can just about see the two little boxes at the aft of the saucer in the lower picture.
i'm working on a little backstory to her. also progress may be a bit slow for the moment.

 

[Neutrino]

V.Nice!

 

[MadMan1701A]

Interesting.

What program are you using?

 

[Albertese]

Hey! Why not?

--Alex

 

[judge alba]

hoping to get the torpedo tubes in today and maybe a couple of phaser cannon type thngs.
madman, im using googles sketch up. i'm finaly getting the hang of the differant tools in the program after five years .

 

[sojourner]

Nice work G.S. Looks like your sketchup skills have surpassed my own. Of course, I haven't touched it in almost 3 months.

Design wise, I like the Ambassador class. Are you going to do something further with the pylon for the 3rd nacelle? it just seems to stickout like a sore thumb to me.

 

[judge alba]

hope to though not sure quite what to do yet. i'll think on it when i've done the saucer greeblies done

 

[hellsgate]

I'd greeble the sides of the third nacelle pylon (slightly) with voyager-type sensor palettes. I'd add a torpedo launcher or two in the pylon, facing aft. Maybe a really tiny (Defiant/Type 18) shuttlepod launch-bay.

But I'd get rid of the major phaser cannon & go with a pair of Wyvern cannons along the front lip of the saucer.

Maybe add a cargo-bay or a "Ten Forward" along the bottom of the saucer section. Or, refit the bottom of the saucer to reflect the TNG/Titan-era with a discreet "wave-rider" sized dedicated captain's-yacht launch bay.

 

[sojourner]

GS, I am curious, how did you create the neck and secondary hull in sketchup? Changing radius curves like that have always been a problem for me.

 

[judge alba]

i kinda cheated there i used a blown up 2d picture of the neck and made a square block then kept adding triangles at certain angles until i got the right shape, always making sure i get solid triangle blocks, takes one hell of a long time and makes for a very large file size but once i got the right shape i halfed the neck and hollowed out the shape to help lower the file size a bit. did it in two parts top and bottom. bottom first then the top. after all this i did a lot of smoothing.
hope this makes sense i'm not too good with explaining how i did things, the ideas in my head but when putting it out it tends to get muddled.

hellsgate those are good ideas. may try a coupl of them. though i want to try to limit the tech to early 'd' era late 'c' era. the forth coming back story will explain a bit more soon.

 

[judge alba]

got an update for you i am toying with the idea of a roll bar similar to the Miranda but a little smaller the idea being that the phaser cannon are still experimental so are put on a mount away from the ship in case of an over load where they can be ejected.

the first pic shows where the small roll bar will be need to do a bit of work there not too happy with the pod so i may dump it but move the phaser cannons to the center a bit.
I've also placed the upper phaser strips.

the second picture is a close up of the weapons roll bar, going to have to play around with the color a bit, also may have to resize the cannon slightly perhaps by 50%.
if i keep the pod will definitely have to double the size of it at least, will move the life boats too at a later stage.

small back story that I'm working on is that the dreadnought was built in response to the nerenda 3 incident where the enterprise c was destroyed the federation thinking the romulans may be planing a war with them decided they needed a warship quickly so they designed a upgraded ambassador, though 6 ships were built all performing well the war never happened and the ships while too expensive for exploration duties with limited science laboratories and too war like for first contact turned into ships with out a mission so they were mothballed though one served in the battle at Wolf 359 where it was destroyed.
though the ships were not successful many of the designs components were Incorporated into future classes of ships.

will flesh out the story as i go on.

 

[judge alba]

done some more work on her added a landing pad greeblie for the shuttle bay and a couple of phaser cannons on the elbows of the outer nacelle pylons.
greeblied the saucer by adding lifeboats may not be able to see yet but I've added the aft torpedo's to the base of the center pylon which I've added a bit of detail to.
also trying out a color scheme on the saucer.

next job will be the neck and lower saucer to sort out.