Jayru (JSnaith's) 3D Trek

[C-Dub]

"So the Oberth, we could argue, was maybe a Deltan design, or Vulcan or some other race."
- That's a nice idea, makes sense.

For my money (which we don't use, in the 23rd century) I reckon that lower pod is just a massive sensor pod, with no user-serviceable parts inside.

 

[JSnaith]

"So the Oberth, we could argue, was maybe a Deltan design, or Vulcan or some other race."
- That's a nice idea, makes sense.

For my money (which we don't use, in the 23rd century) I reckon that lower pod is just a massive sensor pod, with no user-serviceable parts inside.

Except when I scaled her up, I found room to put a turbo-lift shaft in each pylon, so it's reachable and usable by the crew :-)

 

[Anthony Scott]

I am on 9 meds but my heart failure is probably different from yours as it is caused by a viral infection. Still sucks and is still terminal but years down the road.

Loving the Oberth as it looks now. She finally looks in proper scale and coloring that she should have been.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Except when I scaled her up, I found room to put a turbo-lift shaft in each pylon, so it's reachable and usable by the crew :-)

There was also the theory that Oberths would have had internal site-to-site transporters, akin to what the TMP refit was supposed to have on the bridge in front of the weapons console. This would mitigate the need for a physical turbolift network down there.

However, I'm personally in the camp that it's a massive sensor array package and the only thing down there are a network of Jefferies tubes for maintenance access. No habitability otherwise.

 

[JSnaith]

I am on 9 meds but my heart failure is probably different from yours as it is caused by a viral infection. Still sucks and is still terminal but years down the road.

Loving the Oberth as it looks now. She finally looks in proper scale and coloring that she should have been.

Mine's congenital, Fallot's with a few twists. The twists are what make it terminal; it is a question of time, but they are working on extending it. I've grown up with this, so I've never known any different. No pity, please. It's my reality.

Ahhhh, the Oberth - I have been drawn to it since 1984 when I first saw TSFS. It's a weird design, and one that can be made to work if we apply some, um, "logic" to it, lol. She's going to have TMP colouring, but still be as faithful to how she should look.

There was also the theory that Oberths would have had internal site-to-site transporters, akin to what the TMP refit was supposed to have on the bridge in front of the weapons console. This would mitigate the need for a physical turbolift network down there.

However, I'm personally in the camp that it's a massive sensor array package and the only thing down there are a network of Jefferies tubes for maintenance access. No habitability otherwise.

Because this build has been scaled up from 120m to 250m, it has been possible to build in turbolift shafts in the pylons that don't use weird angles or anything that change angle. I spent time working that out, and it looks good on the model I'm building. It doesn't compromise the shape of them or screw with the way they connect to the hulls. The point of building to this larger scale was to find a way to do that.

That said, at the 120m scale, I totally agree that the lower hull would have to be uncrewed.

More as and when. I might get some time on the PC tonight/tomorrow am. Watch this space ;-)

 

[JSnaith]

A visual demonstration of what I am talking about - re the turbolifts, pylons and secondary hull -

At the scale I'm building, it was possible to build in turboshafts that would allow generous access to the lower hull, making it fully accessible and usable by the crew. I agree that the forward part of it is likely a very large collection of sensors and the like, (I'm using Miranda-style particle emitters for navigational deflector systems, just under the nacelles, so this is not going to be a fast ship like a Constitution). But the upper "hump"? - Fuel storage, and the rest? Engineering. This frees up space in the upper hull for crew facilities and several science labs, making this a proper mobile science platform.

More later.