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Jayru (JSnaith's) 3D Trek
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The neck is done... (so much for tomorrow, meh, I'll start the nacelles tomorrow)...
Your eyes are not wrong, there are no airlocks on the torpedo deck. I always thought that was a weird choice, please board our ship at the most explosive level :-/ But I will listen to arguments that suggest they should be an airlock there. I have left space accordingly.
Anyways, off to read, then hit the hay. See you all tomorrow, comments and the like welcome!
Your eyes are not wrong, there are no airlocks on the torpedo deck. I always thought that was a weird choice, please board our ship at the most explosive level :-/ But I will listen to arguments that suggest they should be an airlock there. I have left space accordingly.
Anyways, off to read, then hit the hay. See you all tomorrow, comments and the like welcome!
Food for thought, the airlocks on the torpedo deck might be for easier loading of torpedo casings.
I have beefed up the neck, making it wider than usual to accommodate the fact I think it's too thin normally. Having the intermix shaft run through it has always felt like a bad design to me... But without a completely new design for neck, akin to the Excelsior, I can't see a way to improve upon that, except to make it wider like I have.
Torpedo: Where are they stored? On-screen evidence from TWOK shows they are stored in the neck above the launchers. Given the size of the physical torp casing (again as seen in TWOK) and the width/height of the airlock hatch I don't think that's how the torpedoes were loaded onto the ship. Ok, in TWOK we see a manual launcher, although it was able to auto-load in TSS - or Scotty had taken the time to preload some torpedoes. By TUC we see a full auto-loading system for torpedoes. So maybe yes, they were loaded through the airlocks in TWOK.
So, using on-screen (canon) evidence to place where they are stored is... Uncomfortable. Whilst the shooting model of the refit Enterprise is stunning, it suffers from some ill-thought-out problems.
So, this brings me nicely to two points:
- Are the torpedoes physical in the universe I am creating?
- And where are they stored if they are a physical thing?
Yes, yes, I understand in the real world how ordinance is loaded onto warships. But I would like to think that by the 23rd Century with the experience humanity has gained, plus the off-world engineering thoughts/advice from other Federation members, we would have a better system.
Sorry this turned into such a missive. But it is food for thought.
More later!
PS: The nacelles are going to be interesting, but in a good way :-)
More detail in... doesn't look like much has been done, but some of the things I've done have turned out to be fiddly (the "in-cuts" for the self-lighting and markings for one) -
Hull maps are a modification of the ones I did for the Phase II USS Sansar - I may lighten them up a bit, although the blue-grey is growing on me.
Sticking with the glowing deflector at the mo, but as I say that is subject to change. Lots more to build in, and then... Maybe a break for a bit? Or a shuttle for her. Hummmm. I'll think on that. Comments and the like welcome, more later on.
Hull maps are a modification of the ones I did for the Phase II USS Sansar - I may lighten them up a bit, although the blue-grey is growing on me.
Sticking with the glowing deflector at the mo, but as I say that is subject to change. Lots more to build in, and then... Maybe a break for a bit? Or a shuttle for her. Hummmm. I'll think on that. Comments and the like welcome, more later on.
Something like this? -
More detail built and refinements made -
I think this is it for today, my brain needs a rest. So, comments and thoughts welcome, more tomorrow :-)
Something like this? -
I didn't think that would work...... but it does. Or is that just me?
It know looks like it's not just an antenna, but something with raw power behind it. Feeding it.
