ECS Vega (XCV-300), WIP Thread.
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Deck layouts are perpendicular, like most Star Trek ships. I gave some thought to making the windows aligned to the vertical axis, but in the end I wanted this ship to be consistent with one of my previous models, the SS Reliant, which has a single 'gravity deck', and the rest of the ship is zero-g. The ECS Vega is roughly contemporary to the Reliant, so wherever you see a row of windows, there is gravity plating, and everything else is zero-g.
I've finished the primary hull now, and the truss structures that make up the spine are pretty close to finished too.
Agreed, the wing strakes were fairly pointless. I tried making them into a kind of radiator surface for the fusion tokamak, but it looked bad so I deleted it, and quickly concluded that it looked just fine without them.Oh, yes - better without the delta-wings(well, to my eyes, anyway)
Now why couldn't the NX-01 have looked something like this.
I like both versions. Could absolutely see both running side by side as a variant.
I think you're right, but part of the reason why the bent pylon was removed was that I was beginning to worry that the ship was looking a little too close to the Event Horizon, a ship that in turn owes something to 2001's Discovery IMO. If you remove the warp ring, the influence from both of those ships is pretty clear in retrospect.
I used to think along the same lines as well. But considering the constraints Doug Drexler was working within, I think the NX-01 is a pretty remarkable piece of work in my opinion. Besides, this ship would never work within the storytelling style of Enterprise - no shields, polarized hull plating or dedicated weaponry - very much like a lot of cargo ships roaming the seas today. I think one shot from a Suliban Cell Ship would finish this poor thing off hehe.
The model is now finished. I adapted components from my old Reliant model (namely the fusion tokamaks and the nacelles,) into this design, so there is some era-specific continuity in the ship images that I make.
I've been very happy using Blender for this ship I'd like to add, in case anyone here is thinking of learning the program. It's not quite as good as 3ds Max in modelling, but the difference is so small so as not to really matter, and there's so much else that it can do right out of the box, that I am going to look forward to developing this ship further, taking into account all of Blender's interesting features. Eevee animation rendering and particle effects being top of the list.
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I've been thinking about the Event Horizon for quite some time, on how to adapt the design to Trek. I'll see if I can find the sketches...
You should definitely put your sketches on the forum, sounds intriguing.
Found them!
As you can see, this is very early concept phase. The idea here was that some shady parts of the Federation (Section 31 or whatever) found out that the Romulans were experimenting with artificial singularities as their main power source. Not wanting to fall behind, they greenlight the construction / rebuild of an old Daedalus that already was refitted once (hence the odd hybrid TMP / TOS nacelles; tried to Trekify the double engines on each side) to see if this magnificent powersource can be used by the technologically superior Federation (hubris and stuff). Spoiler: it doesn't end well. Turns out trying to create shortcuts through space isn't such a good idea... So, yeah, this is all pre-Disco.
As you can see, this is very early concept phase. The idea here was that some shady parts of the Federation (Section 31 or whatever) found out that the Romulans were experimenting with artificial singularities as their main power source. Not wanting to fall behind, they greenlight the construction / rebuild of an old Daedalus that already was refitted once (hence the odd hybrid TMP / TOS nacelles; tried to Trekify the double engines on each side) to see if this magnificent powersource can be used by the technologically superior Federation (hubris and stuff). Spoiler: it doesn't end well. Turns out trying to create shortcuts through space isn't such a good idea... So, yeah, this is all pre-Disco.
You should develop the further as it's a cool idea. I like the top sketch the best as a starting point, since it combines elements of the Event Horizon and the Daedalus most effectively. The ship's backstory sounds like it has had a history of hasty alterations and on-the-fly fixes. I can imagine the newer components grafted onto the original hull in an almost frankensteinian manner.
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