My homebrew kitbashes

[Wingsley]

The Pilgrim-class transport is a really neat idea, but I think it needs longer nacelles.

 

[Albertese]

How does one get to the secondary hull on the Aristotle?

Do you have all of Vance's ship parts pages?

If so, go to the one with all the nacelle pylons on it (Toolkits Freebies 8) and select the profile view of the "mini secondary" in the lower right corner. Open a new window with just that part. Paste it in the new window. Now go to Resize Image (or the equivalent in whatever program you are using) and reduce the height of the hull 50% but leave the length the same as it already is.

Now paint out all the now squished windows and the segment-lines on the shuttlebay doors. Isolate the shuttlebay doors with a mask (Magic Wand in PdN) and use a linear gradient fill from left to right (the lightest part should end up on the far right).

Now go back to Vance's page 8 and Isolate and copy the airlock door on the un"squished" mini-hull. Go to your "squished" hull and put it where you want it to go.

To do the front, go back to page 8 and copy the front view of the mini-hull. Paste it into it's own window and again reduce the height ONLY by 50%

The top view is the easiest. Select the mini-hull top view and paste into new window. DO NOT ALTER either width or height. Paint out the connection lines on the shuttle bay door. Mask off the doors with Magic Wand as on the side view. Now use a CONE gradient fill with the center starting underneath the aft formation light above the shuttle bay (the little round feature) and go from left to right (again, the lightest part of the fill should be to the right).

If you want to add a sensor dome to the UNDERside of the squished hull, just take a 2 pixel curved line and start at the left end of the undercut and connect the other end to the little "lip" underneath the shuttlebay. Tweak the curve until you get the shape you want. Mask off the interior as you did the shuttlebay doors and use LINEAR gradient to fill going left to right.

Hope this helps

I suspect he's asking how crewpersons would get from the Saucer to the secondary hull, rather than how did you draw it.

Though I may be wrong...

--Alex

 

[Ian Keldon]

I suspect he's asking how crewpersons would get from the Saucer to the secondary hull, rather than how did you draw it.

Though I may be wrong...

--Alex

In that case, I would posit via a Jeffries tube in all likelihood.

The Oberth class has the same issue.

 

[arthur2sheds]

The Pilgrim-class transport is a really neat idea, but I think it needs longer nacelles.

I like the Pilgrim class, but agree, it needs the larger PB32 nacelles.

 

[Ian Keldon]

The Pilgrim-class transport is a really neat idea, but I think it needs longer nacelles.

I like the Pilgrim class, but agree, it needs the larger PB32 nacelles.

Those ARE standard-size nacelles. The ship is just that darn big.

 

[The Castellan]

I suspect he's asking how crewpersons would get from the Saucer to the secondary hull, rather than how did you draw it.

Though I may be wrong...

--Alex

In that case, I would posit via a Jeffries tube in all likelihood.

The Oberth class has the same issue.

Yesh. The 3D Oberth I use, and posted a few times here, corrects that problem with putting in a 'neck' between the top and bottom pieces.

 

[Ian Keldon]

Hubble-class survey vessel

 

[Kaiser]

Pretty ship

 

[Ian Keldon]

New one

Longshoreman-class transport

 

[Ian Keldon]

The ships of the Andrew Carnegie class owe their very existence to the philanthropy of Carter Winston. Considered by many to be the foremost businessman and philanthropist of the 23rd century, he made and subsequently gave away multiple fortunes to assist Federation colonies and others who found themselves in need.

Winston disappeared in 2264, lost in space and presumed dead. He was rescued by the starship USS Enterprise in 2269. Upon his return to Federation society with his fiancee (later wife) Anne Norred, he once again threw his considerable talents and resources into efforts to help others.

As part of those plans, he purchased a significant quantity of surplussed Starfleet equipment and starship hull components and used them to construct a purpose-built class of vessels that could serve a wide variety of needs with relatively simple internal modifications.

The five ships of the Carnegie class, all named after famous historical philanthropists of Earth's past, became a common sight in and around the frontiers of Federation space. Willing to go wherever and do whatever was needed, they achieved the notable distinction of being the only Federation-registered ships allowed relatively open access to both the Klingon and Romulan spheres of influence.

The class is still in service as of 2367, having been refit internally several times over as the Winston Foundation continues its non-partisan mission of providing aid and comfort to whoever may require it.

 

[Kaiser]

Nice Mercy/Hospital ship there

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

I have to admit, I like this hospital ship!

 

[Ian Keldon]

Good...here she is finished (I forgot the nacelle pylon on the profile view...

 

[Ian Keldon]

Ballard-class survey vessel

 

[Kaiser]

Very Good

 

[Ian Keldon]

A handful of tweaks and I'm calling her done

 

[Kaiser]

Good Tweaks

 

[Rachet]

love the Longshoreman-Class.

 

[Ziz]

My only nitpick with the Longshoreman is to have the containers attach with standard container docking plates so the containers could be swapped out. Some of your others are using containers as integrated hull components but this one looks like it could still work with detachable containers.

 

[Forbin]

Nice to see Bob Ballard get a ship. I've been using his name on shuttlecraft on my schematics for a while.