Brilliant!
It's really nice to see ships that we know, but given a new spin to make them new and fresh!
Thank you!
When I started out, it was about making sense of the new Starfleet ships seen in Star Trek III. But, like all projects it has grown to be something else -
making these designs work.
Without any real changes, the
Excelsior works. It really does. The two changes I made to it were about keeping it real (as much as any of this can be said to be real) - adding a bridge to the correct scale and changing the cargo hold for something that doesn't waste space. The
Oberth on the other hand is a poor design. Sorry to all it's many fans, but it's a badly designed starship. But then, it was
never designed. It was one of several models that were made for the film's director and producer to look at and pick what they liked the look of. The philosophy of look over form and function, which we as fans, know doesn't work.
Funny that the
Excelsior can be made to work though. That surprised me. Tickles me in fact, because for years -
decades - I hated that ship. Love it now. (Guess working on it, has made me appreciate it).
Still, back to the
Oberth... Nothing about it's *design* makes sense. I've had to make more than a few changes to get it into a form
I think works. IF you agree with me, joy - if not... Joy as well, because you know, IDIC. The secondary hull has to be an unmanned mission pod, the upper hull has to have more than three decks. It has to have a proper bridge on it to work. It's supposed to be a
Starship - even if it's a small one. It should be treated as such. It's a science ship (supposedly), so where are the probe launchers? It has a warp drive, so where is the deflector? Yeah, it's been a fun one to work on, lol. And I have enjoyed it, and even though I have rebuilt that damn saucer more then three times now, it has grown on me as a ship. With the caveat, that it works as I have done it. (Arrogant? Maybe. But I think when you spend a year or two working on these ships maybe you have the right, lol). It's part of the game really, trying to find a way to make these ships work.
The mesh itself has been a pain in the ass, bit only because I am close to burn out at the moment and keep making mistakes. I need to spend away from 3D at the moment. Get my head round it all, and then come back later. That interior I did for the shuttle -
I can do better. And it would be nice to build an interior for the other shuttle design I have.
Don't, by any means, think I haven't enjoyed doing all of this. Because I have. I wouldn't do it, if it wasn't fun :-) And I have some plans. But we shall see what happens to them...
Anyway, enough waffle from me. Comments and the like are always welcome, more in a few days :-D