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Rebooted Miranda Class...

Uhh. No. Impulse engines are fusion rockets. Those ARE thrust vents. (We are talking about the Impulse Engine assembly, correct?)

Nope. Two words make that impossible, at least for conventional usage... "Reverse Impulse!" To say nothing of the CoM problems that the Enterprise would have...

There are no COM problems on the Enterprise if you assume the nacelles are denser then the rest of the ship. Seeing as the secondary hull is mostly hollow that's not a huge leap to make.
OK, I think I decided on the one tier engine, and I refined the shapes some more...

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Oh, and I turned them on this time. :)
 
Single seems to work visually better, but I also like the idea of the Miranda class using an 'older' impulse assembly rather than the Enterprise... so.. I'm torn. :)
 
Looks great, but why does it look like some of the impulse grid is burned out? Random black squares among the lighted ones?
 
Looks great, but why does it look like some of the impulse grid is burned out? Random black squares among the lighted ones?
If you look at images of Enterprise and Kelvin, the colors seem to pulsate between dark red, and almost white. I used my Enterprise texture for this one, where I put in dark squares to simulate that effect...
 
Single seems to work visually better, but I also like the idea of the Miranda class using an 'older' impulse assembly rather than the Enterprise... so.. I'm torn. :)
Why? It's using the Kelvin style, so it is more primitive anyway. :) I think I'll stick with this, and see how it goes. Now I have to figure out what to do with the roll bar...
 
All I know is that I'd love some 1680x1050 wallpapers of this baby to put into my rotation... Love it!
 
All I know is that I'd love some 1680x1050 wallpapers of this baby to put into my rotation... Love it!
:)

Alright guys, I'm stuck on the Weapons Pod! Anyone have any ideas?

How does the torpedo launcher from the Enterprise look on it? I would imagine that it would be like the torpedo launcher on the refit config Reliant in TWOK in that it's similar to the Enterprise's modular parts.

And could it have fore and aft launchers?
 
If you mean stuck as in the basic shape, I would go for something that echos the overall shape of the main hull.

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fat end forward, imo, hehe. Your current pod, at least the latest one we can see the overall shape of seems at odds with the rest of the ship in that it is angled forward.
 
Yep, that was my issue with it, all right. I think I might just give it 2 forward tubes, and 1 rear tube... I think that will be more than sufficient. :) I like the idea of the middle one...
 
Well, it seems that I lost my post.... :)

Here we go again...

I decided to pull up an old 3d mesh of reliant I had, and use that pod for reference. I took that general shape, inverted it, and I think it works well. :)

Reliant_WIP_021.jpg


Reliant_WIP_020.jpg


Sometimes simple is better. :) I'm going to put two tubes up front, and one in the rear. That should give it enough power, I think.
 
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