LordSarvain, your ship has a real Concorde vibe.
Let's hope it won't be as disastrous as that one was.
I wouldn't call the Concord "disastrous" in any way. Not cost effective, maybe. Loud, maybe. Cramped, maybe. But not "disastrous".
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I wouldn't call the Concord "disastrous" in any way. Not cost effective, maybe. Loud, maybe. Cramped, maybe. But not "disastrous".
Yeah, that was an MD-11 piece--i.e. DC-10 part--that caused the crash that helped end Concorde.
I like the flat saucer myself. The photon torpedo bay needs to go there, but perhaps you could shave the front of it at an incline back from the front of the secondary hull a bit...
We have seen study model attempts, an uncompleted mesh of the McQuarrieprize with the flat Ken Adam saucer, but no one has done a mesh closely replicating what we saw on McQuarries two best paintings of the concept, the front and rear 3/4 shots.
The Ken Adam study model painting was of a less wide secondary hull wedge and a deeper saucer we see enter the asteroid station finally brought to screen in Archer's Mirror Darkly ENTERPRISE episode. That actually had a cowl to either side of the nacelle that wasn't added to the study model he made that found their way in TNG Best of Both worlds or Reunification.
But the two 3/4 shots had a rounder, smoother edge that I liked over Adams very flat edge--not that that looked bad either.
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/...t-from-scratch&p=540384&viewfull=1#post540384
I like the flat saucer myself. The photon torpedo bay needs to go there, but perhaps you could shave the front of it at an incline back from the front of the secondary hull a bit...
We have seen study model attempts, an uncompleted mesh of the McQuarrieprize with the flat Ken Adam saucer, but no one has done a mesh closely replicating what we saw on McQuarries two best paintings of the concept, the front and rear 3/4 shots.
The Ken Adam study model painting was of a less wide secondary hull wedge and a deeper saucer we see enter the asteroid station finally brought to screen in Archer's Mirror Darkly ENTERPRISE episode. That actually had a cowl to either side of the nacelle that wasn't added to the study model he made that found their way in TNG Best of Both worlds or Reunification.
But the two 3/4 shots had a rounder, smoother edge that I liked over Adams very flat edge--not that that looked bad either.
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/...t-from-scratch&p=540384&viewfull=1#post540384
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LordSarvain, your ship has a real Concorde vibe.
Let's hope it won't be as disastrous as that one was.
I wouldn't call the Concord "disastrous" in any way. Not cost effective, maybe. Loud, maybe. Cramped, maybe. But not "disastrous".
I agree with sojourner here. The Concorde was anything but disastrous. I think the Concorde was innovative, and I find it a damn shame that we don't see airliners headed in that direction. Granted that as typical with supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, that the Concorde wasn't very fuel efficient. And it is very likely we won't see another supersonic airliner until another source of fuel is developed to replace the current jet fuel.
True, the Concorde also made a large boom. I have no idea about how cramped they were, but I doubt they were any more cramped than most airliners.
One of the downsides of basically being a flying pencil. Still, it was a very cool flying pencil 
O/T Not exactly Phase II, but a nice design here
http://i26.servimg.com/u/f26/15/36/12/95/new_bo11.jpg
Nebula
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?78397-Star-Trek-designs
http://i26.servimg.com/u/f26/15/36/12/95/new_bo11.jpg
Nebula
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?78397-Star-Trek-designs
^ Those are pretty much the Phase II nacelles on the Enterprise.
actually they are more TMP than Phase II
they just added an orange glow where there are just vanes on the version as built and filmed.
Source for this? I've seen nothing to suggest that the windows were anything than just windows.
If the original Enterprise didn't have that many visable windows in any particular pattern, that could only mean their moniters weren't 'windows' in the traditional sense of the word. Though maybe they were viewing ports with shut windows. To keep the alien bugs from splattering, I guess. Also to keep pesky aliens from watching you undressing (always annoying).
Uhhh... the windows are windows.... Got a little more texture work done...
Very cool.
I'm so glad you are still working on this.
I hope you do more on the Linus Pauling seen here:
http://www.galacticempire.org/2011/05/ship-recognition-chart.html
I hope you do more on the Linus Pauling seen here:
http://www.galacticempire.org/2011/05/ship-recognition-chart.html
