Pre-Warp ships

[SCE2Aux]

Hi, I'm in the middle of making a pre-warp design for a friend who's doing a fan project, covering the history of United Earth, early UFP and the like. I've settled on a DY-100-esque shape, but with real-life elements added (Space Shutle/Dreamchaser/Starship type influences.)

Also kitbashed some of my own pre-UFP ship elements into this design for a sense of tech continuity.

 

[Santaman]

That's off to a good start I would say.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Thanks Santaman!
This is the guy I'm making the ship for - David Bissig. He's a great ship modeler in his own right, and has come up with a really interesting future history for the early eras in the Star Trek timeline:

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[SCE2Aux]

I think that's about it for modelling this segment of the ship:

The overall ship is the 'Bissigverse' version of the DY-500 class.

 

[Santaman]

That's a beautiful design, enough details to catch the eye but the overal shape is rather sturdy and smooth, lifting body like I would say, I love the heat tiles.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Thanks! It's definitely more a lifting body/falling-with-style kind of vehicle, yep!

The ship started out with a round nose, transitioning into a hexagonal cross-section going aft, trying to evoke a similar shape seen in the DY-Class ships seen in TOS.

I lopped a few edgeloops out of the top of the initial mesh to produce the lifting body shape:

 

[Mage]

That's quite impressive!

 

[Markonian]

Beautiful designs.

 

[SCE2Aux]

I've had a break away from computers over Christmas. but now moving onto the cargo pods aft:

 

[Michael]

@SCE2Aux, you seriously are the master of greebling. This is just so satisfying to look at. Thanks for continuing to bless the board with your outstanding work! And happy new one!

 

[SCE2Aux]

Thanks Michael, that's very kind of you to say! I find greebling to be a kind of stress relief, and it clears my head of the junk that accumulates throughout the day

 

[SCE2Aux]

Finished the modelling phase of this ship - DY-500 Multimodal Transporter:

 

[Santaman]

As if we couldn't be more impressed, I think your designs have such a realism to them, yes it's SF and so on but it looks so industrial real.

 

[fireproof78]

Finished the modelling phase of this ship - DY-500 Multimodal Transporter:

Checks out as quite reasonable based upon the technology.

 

[SchwEnt]

Nice work, good ideas.
There are not many pre-warp vessels in ST, but check out the Spaceflight Chronology for some ideas and history.
Quite as few sub-light spacecraft in there.
It's licensed and illustrated by Rick Sternbach so that's good enough for me as far as "official".

 

[SCE2Aux]

Nice work, good ideas.
There are not many pre-warp vessels in ST, but check out the Spaceflight Chronology for some ideas and history.
Quite as few sub-light spacecraft in there.
It's licensed and illustrated by Rick Sternbach so that's good enough for me as far as "official".

I feel like I've heard of that book before but never looked it up until now - it looks fascinating though! Obviously the lore is fairly outdated at this point, but it's got a lot of really interesting ideas and spacecraft concepts in it.

 

[publiusr]

Finished the modelling phase of this ship - DY-500 Multimodal Transporter:

I think I saw something similar auger in

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[SCE2Aux]

I think I saw something similar auger in

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Wedge shapes are always a solid starting point for spaceships

I'm currently unwrapping the model, which is my least favourite thing to do because it's so so boooring, compounded by a couple of file corruptions, so I've been keeping myself entertained during the process by further kitbashing: Warp propulsion retrofits, for instance:

 

[Santaman]

Coming along really nicely, I love all the details, those air brakes for example look awesome.

 

[SCE2Aux]

Not really pre-warp, at this point, but I'm planning on doing multiple configurations now, some pre-2063, some post-2063.
An idea for a ring ship retrofit: