New TOS ship design

[mythme]

One variant of this design you could try Klondike307 would be to divide the through-deck into two landing areas. Then split the front landing area into two decks, one for shuttles, one for workbees, each area with its own doors. Then add a bunch of airlocks along the hangar base. And a few extra tractor beam emitters.

Now you have a repair ship that can warp in to assist a disabled ship (maybe carrying a collapsible drydock in the aft landing area for the duration of such a rescue mission.) This variant could also act as a tender for shuttlecraft and small scouts in locations where spacedock or starbase services weren't practicle.

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The only real complaint I have about the design as is are the oversized windows.

Very interesting concept

 

[BK613]

One variant of this design you could try Klondike307 would be to divide the through-deck into two landing areas. Then split the front landing area into two decks, one for shuttles, one for workbees, each area with its own doors. Then add a bunch of airlocks along the hangar base. And a few extra tractor beam emitters.

Now you have a repair ship that can warp in to assist a disabled ship (maybe carrying a collapsible drydock in the aft landing area for the duration of such a rescue mission.) This variant could also act as a tender for shuttlecraft and small scouts in locations where spacedock or starbase services weren't practicle.

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The only real complaint I have about the design as is are the oversized windows.

Very interesting concept

Working on it.

 

[miraclefan]

I've taken alot of your suggestions and applied them to the design. The nacelles are larger now to fit with the scale of the ship. Graphic have been updated including breaking up the dead space on the hanger hull. The bridge is still in the front of A Deck below the hanger. The flight control pods on the top of the fore and aft of the hanger have been added. I'll show a close-up of them in my next post. The only thing left to do on the exterior is to add weapons. My next task will be cross sections, both from the side and from the top of each deck.

The picture below is a little side project I'm working on. I figured the ship needed a small scout ship (larger then a shuttle) to go alone with it, sort of like the captains yacht or the Delta flyer. It's a small 2 deck scout ship. On the first deck is a small bridge, sleeping quarters, and the impulse engine. Deck 2 contains a small engine room along with various other ship systems. In the rear is the boarding ramp and small equipment rooms. The ship can be housed on the main hanger deck. The pylons can retract or fold (haven't desided yet) like a plane to maximize storage. I wanted to give it a sort of reto, feel. I was inspired by RedSpar's work on MJ original shuttle design. More pics to come.

WOW! I love that shutle it get's my seal of approvel! However it looks like it might be little more in line with the ENT era then TOS era.