Suricata's MSDs

[SuricataFX]

Has there been any progress with your Discovery analysis for future MSD?

I'll probably make a new thread for that, since I knwo it will be a topic of much debate if my Facebook posts are anything to go by!

I was actually working on it a bit this weekend, was blocking out the shuttle bay, but nothing to show yet on that, I have some templates for other areas below, since the show is still unfolding, it will be a project i work on after every episode goes live and new sets and information are revealed! :P

 

[Spaceship Jo]

Oh excellent, I'm sure there are many of us looking forward to that new thread! FB has a lot of neat things happening (like your project), but it's set up in a way that following the progress of a project is less than intuitive.

 

[SuricataFX]

Latest MSD. The Rhode Island variant of the Nova class. Used set blueprints from Voyager for a lot of the rooms. Scaled her at 180m. I moved the Torpedo tubes from next to the deflector to the forward saucer (where the exterior details suggest they'd be). The Waverider is a hybrid of the one from the original MSD with detailing from the Scout ship seen in Insurrection.

 

[SuricataFX]

Been a while since I posted here and realized I've not added the last MSD I finished here yet. The U.S.S. Excelsior!

A few things to note:
- As per my other MSD's, this is created to scale (1/10) and actual set blueprints are used to try and ensure as much accuracy as possible.
- This is based on the Enterprise-B MSD seen in Generations, although some items had to move moved, like the Deflector as it was in completely the wrong place. Since that MSD is as canon as we have, item placement on that took precedent. Turbo-lift placement in line with the turbolift diagram we only see very very briefly in Generations.
- I used old fan blueprints and the Haynes cutaway for placement of some items. I wanted to be consistent with what had come before, more so for people who may use cross-sections for their RPG's.
- In order the have all items fit in comfortably, for decks to align with windows and for the exec shuttles in the aft bay (seen on the studio model) to all fit, the ship has to be 622m long (not 467m as many suggest). Whilst this is a lot longer, the size actually still works for many shots the Excelsior was seen in. (fanguments may now commence)

 

[BorgMan]

Hey, a familiar face! Really nice to see you're still busy making stuff man. What happened to your brewery engineering?

 

[SuricataFX]

Hey, a familiar face! Really nice to see you're still busy making stuff man. What happened to your brewery engineering?

Into Darkness came out and showed what the warp core looked like :P

 

[Mytran]

- In order the have all items fit in comfortably, for decks to align with windows and for the exec shuttles in the aft bay (seen on the studio model) to all fit, the ship has to be 622m long (not 467m as many suggest). Whilst this is a lot longer, the size actually still works for many shots the Excelsior was seen in. (fanguments may now commence)

The larger Excelsior always made more sense to this fan at least

 

[Cyfa]

^ I agree, Excelsior should be BIG!

I've just looked back through this thread, and your MSD's are wonderful! Excelsior is my favourite (favourite ship, too), but all the bits and bobs you included with the Enterprise-E are just amazing.

 

[DEWLine]

I am still inclined to believe that Stamets' DASH-drive lab compartment overlooks and is directly forward of an impulse engine assembly, rather than the warp drive. There does seem to be direct access between Stamets' lab and the warp drive engineering spaces, though. "Sideways", rather than "fore'n'aft".

 

[The Librarian]

In order the have all items fit in comfortably, for decks to align with windows and for the exec shuttles in the aft bay (seen on the studio model) to all fit, the ship has to be 622m long (not 467m as many suggest). Whilst this is a lot longer, the size actually still works for many shots the Excelsior was seen in. (fanguments may now commence)

After seeing @Rekkert's shuttlebay model, I'm now inclined to agree that the larger size is better if you want those shuttle-shaped things to be shuttles, not to mention make the aft bay a bit more practical.

 

[Viper]

These are all great I have some bad news regarding the Sovereign one though. That model that Drexler rendered for his blog is all wrong. It's not the model used in Nemesis at all.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I spotted this in a google search. I never noticed the..."strange" things you have inside the Enterprise D

 

[TrekMD]

These are very nice! Love the comparison of the Enterprise E's MSD's.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Some amazing work.

I always find the E-D MSD funny, especially when compared to others, the ship just looks really empty

 

[SuricataFX]

Time to get this thread back up to date!

Updated USS Voyager MSD
- Updated colors to better match the show (previous version used the STO LCARS palette)
- Updated some components that were previously raster graphics, not vector based

 

[SuricataFX]

USS Cerritos MSD

This is based on screenshots of the MSD from season 1 and is intended to be a 1:1 remake. I am tempted to redo this one to better match the updated MSD Mike Okuda made for the later seasons.

 

[SuricataFX]

USS Vancouver MSD from Lower Decks

 

[SuricataFX]

After Season 1 of Star Trek Picard, I was asked to create an MSD for the Apollo class Ibn Majid. This class of ship is effectively a 2 nacelle version of the Emmett Till, which was featured in the DS9 documentary 'What we left behind'.

At the time, we didn't have the updated Picard Season 2 LCARS colors yet, so the MSD was created using the season 1 LCARS colors. I tried to incorporate several elements from the Lower Decks MSD's into this one as well.

 

[SuricataFX]

USS Stargazer MSD. This is the first MSD I created with the new Picard LCARS scheme and I was super happy to be approached to create it!

There are a few custom LCARS elements I made for this, such as the engine status displays. I updated quite a few of my template pieces for this MSD as well.

 

[SuricataFX]

With the appearance of the Enterprise-F in Star Trek Picard, I was asked to create the largest MSD I've worked on yet!

This ship is frakken huge, at 42 decks (like the Enterprise-D, but much longer). I really dug deep into all the Treknical manuals I had to add create as many ships systems as possible. This MSD features many more components I hadn't added before, such as Turbo-lift maintenance areas, industrial replicators and even the ships morgue! I had a huge amount of fun on this one as the ship's size really allowed me so much more freedom than smaller ships designs.