New ship from Vance's toolkits

[Birdog]

Hi all. Here's my take on a TOS battleship. I used Vance's color toolkits and his Jeffries and Schaunbelt fonts. The design is pretty much a TOSiefied Yamato from the game Star Fleet Command. The color scheme is unique to this particular ship only, because I wanted to show my thoughts on the UFP president's ship. The rest of the class would have normal markings.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/davidsinn/SCIFI/ST/Battleship/bb-4004_athena.jpg

 

[Kaiser]

Very awesome and epic design and color job there

 

[largo]

epic! that's a great design.

 

[Birdog]

Thank you.

 

[Maurice]

I think you need to fix a bit of the text...unless you actually meant to say it's the President and not his plane that are named Air Force One.

 

[publiusr]

Very nice. An Ubership (for its day) that looks doable.

 

[Birdog]

Very nice. An Ubership (for its day) that looks doable.

Thanks. I never could get on board with the thought that the Enterprise was the biggest and baddest the Federation could field.

I tried to be big and bad without going overboard.

 

[Forbin]

I tried to be big and bad without going overboard.

Something I've tried a couple of times myself. Very mean-looking beasty! The only thing I'd try differently is to have the upper engine pylons lean outward in a more conventional manner.

 

[Ziz]

I like the pylons the way they are but why are the lower nacelles upside down? They don't really need to be. I never understood the logic behind that.

 

[Birdog]

I did that because there is no up in space and it visually balances better.

 

[Starship]

I would live just the two nacels down the saucer and remove the ones above. Maybe a variant?

 

[Max Nex]

I like the pylons the way they are but why are the lower nacelles upside down? They don't really need to be. I never understood the logic behind that.

artistic creativity ???

 

[Unicron]

Are the pylons actually connected to the hull in such a way that's not visible? It's an interesting arrangement, it just seems like the visible pylons only connect the nacelles themselves together, but neither connects to the hull.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

I like the pylons the way they are but why are the lower nacelles upside down? They don't really need to be. I never understood the logic behind that.

Because it's the same hardware used on the Constitution. To make it "right-side up" with the pylons going down into it would require a bit of redesigning on Starfleet's part. Its best just to use the existing components.

 

[Ziz]

I guess that works. But by the same logic, if you just take the internals of the two nacelles and swap them left/right, then you can maintain the "right side up" external and internal orientations and still have them connect to the pylons at the top instead of the bottom.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

To get underslung "right-side up" nacelles, you'd need a new nacelle component, because you may have noted that these ones don't have pylon mounts on the top. Which would mean whatever feeds into the nacelle would need to be twisted around, as well as whatever is in the boxes under the particle scoop, whatever's in the back end, and the radiator fins, and so forth.