Corvette-class Escort Destroyer/Corvett

[JES]

Yet another design I've been working on for a while, but have only shown you now.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/18612007571/in/dateposted-public/

Named after the American performance car of the same name, her configuration is based sort of on a combination of the stardrive section of the Sovereign class, and the Renner-class Corvette that the Corvette traces her lineage back to.
Her main impulse drive and shuttlebay configuration is inspired chiefly by the Renner class's own configuration. I have yet to figure out how much space there is in the shuttlebays, but I figure they are connected to the cargo bays, and have enough room mostly for work bees and a couple of shuttlepods, and maybe a shuttlecraft.

This is the first design I've done with my new Wacom tablet. She was supposed to be commissioned sometime in 2383, and shares features with the Vesta and Sparrow class, such Quantum Slipstream and Phaser cannons.

As you can see from some of the side sketches, I still have yet to decide on big details, such as the finished look of the nacelles, nacelle pylons, or the impulse drives.

I also have three pages of earlier sketches, but I can't get the scanner to come online. Unfortunately, I haven't used it in a while, and can't figure out why I can't get it to work right now.

I plan this the be the first of a long line of weekly or bi-weekly artwork, since I'm scheduled to start a course for Concept Art next month, and dad says I don't spend enough of my time doing productive stuff. Not all of this will be Star Trek related, since I know I need to branch out.

Due to my dissatisfaction of how large Flickr allows my images to be viewed, I'll probably be making an account on DeviantArt soon, seeing as how there are a ton of artists there whose stuff I admire, and have wanted to comment on anyways.

 

[sojourner]

So, is it a Corvette class corvette? The word is used for a type of navel vessel. naming a class that would be awkward. Sort of like having a Battleship class battleship.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Is it just me or does that look like the Starfleet version of a Jem'hadar warship?

 

[JES]

So, is it a Corvette class corvette? The word is used for a type of navel vessel. naming a class that would be awkward. Sort of like having a Battleship class battleship.

Yeah, basically. But I like naming ships after automobiles. And what can I say, I like the Corvette. :3

But I'm always open to other name suggestions.

Officially, it is called a Corvette-class Destroyer Escort.

If nobody else can think of a good name, maybe I should lampshade this in the backstory, when I create one.

 

[sojourner]

The thing is, "in universe" they wouldn't use the name due to the confusion it could cause.

 

[JES]

Too bad I haven't been able to come up with another class name. I'm terrible with class names.

Well, I guess I'll have to think of something. Maybe I'll just chose the name of one of the members of the Renner class, since you do have a valid point, but I don't see anyone suggesting another class name.

 

[cardinal biggles]

You mentioned that you like to name ships after cars. Since Corvette would be confusing, how about Stingray?

 

[B.J.]

So, is it a Corvette class corvette? The word is used for a type of navel vessel. naming a class that would be awkward. Sort of like having a Battleship class battleship.

Dreadnought.

 

[JES]

You mentioned that you like to name ships after cars. Since Corvette would be confusing, how about Stingray?

I'd like to use your suggestion, but Steve Torangeau already used that as a class name for one of his designs. I don't want to do anything to contradict the possibility of said design from existing within my canon.

At this point, I'm considering using Manta Ray, which was also a name used in a 1969 Corvette concept.

That or Axbrell, Buxshatt, Durant, Escovedo, Erand, Ixaarn, Julgausth, Mantis, Robust, Shah Jahan, Serene, or Tashanka, since those are names used by the Renner class, but haven't been used again (to my knowledge), and Manta Ray can be saved for a design that looks like a stingray.

I appreciate the suggestion though, I really do.

 

[sojourner]

So, is it a Corvette class corvette? The word is used for a type of navel vessel. naming a class that would be awkward. Sort of like having a Battleship class battleship.

Dreadnought.

That's a reverse situation, if you read the link. The ship invented the class.

 

[JES]

Re: Durant-class Escort Destroyer/Corvette

Well, the Corvette class issue has been settled, and this design shall now be known as the Durant-class Escort Destroyer/Corvette. Someone on the Subspace Comms thought that was the name I should use. If anyone has any other name ideas, however, I'm always open.

Anyhow, my dad also got the scanner working again, so now I can show the evolution of this design:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/18488978080/in/dateposted-public/

The original concept was to take John Eaves's concept for the stardrive section of the Sovereign class, and scale it down. The shuttle cargo bay is sort of organized like that of Andrew Probert's design for the refit Constitution class, with the two taking up half the rear, and interconnected. Looking back now, having such space probably isn't necessary for a glorified patrol ship, but I was pathfinding at the time, and making her self-sufficient didn't seem like a bad thing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/18651433996/in/dateposted-public/

This one might actually be my first sketch run for this design, considering the minimal detailing. The nacelle and pylon design was heavily influenced by Joshua Samuelson's Nu-Trek design for the Enterprise-F. The ventral cargo bay landing deck and dorsal tracked torpedo turret was just me playing around with ideas and details, and probably won't make it into the final design.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/18680104451/in/dateposted-public/

This is where I began playing around with the idea of using design elements from the Renner class. This meant moving the impulse deck to the dorsal, and the shuttlebay to the ventral. The ventral shuttlebay that I was playing around with was probably inspired by Vector Lee's design for his Magellanic class Enterprise-F's shuttlebay.
Before I scanned this image, I also played around with the idea of the hull configuration looking even more like the Renner class. The result almost comes off looking sort of like a mini Achilles class IMO.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40445677@N06/18651487416/in/dateposted-public/

My final sketch run for this design for the moment, and the last time that I considered the standard shuttlebay-on-the- dorsal-aft configuration standard with most cruisers, it is here that I also played even more with the configuration of the Renner class, not only having the impulse drives directly aft (well, at least the primary ones), but also having the shuttlebay split in two, with one on each side.

I really liked the design I came up for the aft. At this point, the two shuttlebays and cargo bay they flank on both sides are interconnected, and in addition to the standard cargo, there is probably just enough room for several work bees, a few shuttlepods, and maybe a shuttlecraft or two.
This is also the first time I put the idea on paper of the forward torpedo launchers being sort of like the primary torpedo tubes on the Excelsior class, but in this case, they are ball turrets, rather than being under and aft of the primary deflector.