Thank you!Oh yeah, that with the slightly more curved back has a much better flow if you ask me.
Thank you!Nice re-start I would say.![]()
Thank you :-)Oh, those struts work the best sofar!!!
Thank you - although it's more akin to the original design ;-)Agreed, very much an improvement.
Thank you!Nice work.![]()
The nacelles are only deployed for warp, with them remaining tucked into the ship during impulse and slipstream. This ship was designed long before the remake of BSG. Not saying they copied us... Just that it pre-dates it, lol. The actual ship was inspired by the shape of a "dustbuster."Looks interesting. The Wolfe's "deployable nacelles" feels a bit like the nuBattlestar Galactica with the flight pods that had to retract for FTL. I'd suggest instead to make the extending feature a variable depending on the speed of the ship. Standard warp it is fully extended and ludicrous warp it is tucked in (like an F-14 Tomcat). That way it doesn't have a useless mode like Voyager's nacelles. YMMV.
The nacelles are only deployed for warp, with them remaining tucked into the ship during impulse and slipstream. This ship was designed long before the remake of BSG. Not saying they copied us... Just that it pre-dates it, lol. The actual ship was inspired by the shape of a "dustbuster."
Comments welcome, more soon :-)
I haven't got the study model right yet, I need to tweak it a bit - beef it up vertically to match the deck size on the Intrepid Class and then move some things around. If memory serves, the ship should have a total of 15 decks. I'm using my TMP deck scale, so that's throwing me off at the mo. I'll sort itIt's not that I 'hate' it - it just doesn't sit right with my own personal tastes, or how I think Starfleet ship design flows and progresses.
The two deflector bays - to me - really disrupt the flow of the sleekness that the design had. They kind of make it very 'fish-like', giving the appearance of fins, and with that visible bridge 'bump' (or so I'm assuming), it feels like it should be a lot smaller, between the Defiant and Nova classes.
It almost has a kind of 'primitiveness' that makes me think it was a pre-NX design, between humans copying Vulcan ring-nacelles and switching back to Cochrane's original design approach.
On the plus side, I do like the sleekness as mentioned, and its dart-like profile, and the squared-off angled nacelles remind me of the Interceptor-class and other fan-designs.
Intrigued to see where this eventually ends up, design wise.
Slipsteam is focused through the deflector dishes, so the nacelles aren't used during that. There was a good reason to tuck them into the hull when not in used, but I'll admit I need to go through the old WIP thread on Sci-Fi Meshes and see what I can lift from there, and see what Chris has to hand re info, and troll my own memory. The ship was paper designed back in 1998, and variable geometry nacelles were a thing back then.Cool, I didn't know when you had came up with the design. I'm not sure why the nacelles would need to be tucked in while at impulse. Does it need to waste time to extend in order to go to warp and then retract back for slipstream? Or can it go straight to slipstream from impulse?
Thank you! I've got some time, so I'll be playing with the study model today and seeing what I can come up with.I like it. It's good that is deviates a bit from standard Starfleet design yet still is recognizable. In the novels, Slipstream capable ships had a slightly different profile to be able to maintain a proper corridor. So I'm ok with that.
Also like the idea of deployable nacelles!
Keep this up, I want to see where it goes.
Those nacelles needed some love from me, and are still angled. But I've added some curves and the like to bring it more inline with the rest of the hull.The only complaint I had with the Mako was the angled nacelles but you've already fixed that. I like the shape and the organic look fits with TNG/Voyager before Starfleet started gearing up for war. And even then they still slipped some of those organic shapes in.
Slipsteam is focused through the deflector dishes, so the nacelles aren't used during that. There was a good reason to tuck them into the hull when not in used, but I'll admit I need to go through the old WIP thread on Sci-Fi Meshes and see what I can lift from there, and see what Chris has to hand re info, and troll my own memory. The ship was paper designed back in 1998, and variable geometry nacelles were a thing back then.
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