Original Starship Design Thread

[Merlin1701]

Rob - I prefer the 250m, but I agree a scale of 235/240m would be nice to see...just tosee if it looks a little better.

[Semmer]

Yup, 250ish is better. Stubbiness in spaceship desing looks weird..

[Merlin1701]

Just a thought, people here should start writing tutorials. Just a thought...

Now there is an excellent idea. A step by step guide to Sketchup would be great, for those who don't simply have the time to go through the whole process

I'm full of great ideas.

Besides, there are some techniques that I would love to adapt to my ships.

It's really not that hard, your first design will not be as good as your second or third...you learn new things all the time.

What exactly would you like to learn in sketchup?

[Saquist]

Egg-cellent interior work, ALX. You should really do this professionally

[Dr Lee]

I've fiddled about with the Small Carrrier, and it's ended up being about 200M, though still with only 6 F-302s. I've also tweaked the structures to give the tower a more sleeker look than the Blocks we had before....along with setting up the external look of the Bridge.

Finally, i've set out the engines and Hyper drive exhausts....

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Got a lot of time on today.... so i've made a fair few changes.

Ship is now 240M long... with an extended head, Hangers, Jumper bays and main structure. the jumper bays now hold two Jumpers each, while the main hangers just have more room to house the 2 F-302s.

I've added some Landing gear, built the indent for the power core details at the rear, two of the three Hyper Space exhausts,two tanks behind each jumper bay (no idea what they'll hold) and started work on the details in the neck.

Additional image over on Lightspeed-Art.com

[lordofseas]

It's really not that hard, your first design will not be as good as your second or third...you learn new things all the time.

What exactly would you like to learn in sketchup?

I don't use Sketchup. I use LW. Besides, I was trying to make myself sound more....diabolical. (Really, it's not the modelling that I have a problem with, but the texturing. )

[Angarsk]

Hi, I do have an old design, though it's not SG inspired (Andromeda, actually) so, I was wondering... would you be interested in watching? or am I about to get kicked for actually asking?

(just being cautious here)

[Alx]

here is what im doing for the challenge this time around.

H.M.S ODEN
Battleship
WIP

[puddlejumperOZ]

here is what im doing for the challenge this time around.

H.M.S ODEN
Battleship
WIP

Spoiler:

Very nice indeed, reminds me of a modern version of the Yamato

[lordofseas]

Hi, I do have an old design, though it's not SG inspired (Andromeda, actually) so, I was wondering... would you be interested in watching? or am I about to get kicked for actually asking?

(just being cautious here)

I'm just one here, but go ahead.

here is what im doing for the challenge this time around.

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Very, very nice.

[Semmer]

Did an animation of my frigate:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/semmer/Roipetta..._sequence1.avi 55Megs, 20sec, good resolution

Will post some renders later once I've upped them to my page.

Enjoy

[Cmdr. Setsuna F. Seyei]

dropship i did yesterday will get some renders up asap

thanx to alx and pjoz 4 the guns.

the dropship carries 16 jumpers, 56 tanks( or armored combat vehicles)(less if ther is a megatank or 2 aboard) that measure 30ft/9.144m wide by 50ft/15.24m long.

the dropship itself measures 600ft/182.88m long by 321.5ft/97.9932m wide by 210ft/64.008m high.

P.S. the colors on the jumpers are to identify the squad they belong to and what lz they are to use. Each drop ship carries 4 squads of jumpers this ones squads are RED, GOLD, BLUE, and BLACK.

the 4 jumpers around the ship all belong to RED squad

P.P.S. there are a total of 15 guns placements on the dropship 4 on both sides, 3 on the ventral bow, and 4 in the hold facing the ramp.(i havent gotten around to placing the top ones yet.

P.P.P.S. the two "BRIDGES" are as such 1 is flight op the other is combat op(ie weapons) in an emergency(if either one is destroyed) either can take over the tasks of the other. the third control system is located in the engine room.


BTW sorry about all the post scriptums but lots of edits after i though i was done.

[Alx]

My second attempt at a 304
(High Rez!)



started putting the mesh togheter just about 3days ago
and at this point there is 5-6 hours of work put into it.

(also i am aware of the stray rail guns on the nose )

[Alx]

christ i cant belive im gonna bring this up again but here goes..
while making my new 304 i have kept it scaled correctly and here are the results and my findings.

first of all boberth no disrespect but your scalings are wrong the official 295m statements are infact correct this pic should explain it.



the 2D character is 170cm and the ships main hull is scaled to 295m but total length of ship is 315m including aerials and engines.

this is imo proof enough that these "Official" scalings are correct and screencap scalin varies due to scale up or down for "dramatic effects"

/END OF RANT

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

Not again And I was having such a good day..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmr5IZFsWwQ