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Yakaspat The Trekker
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Hey Gang,

Check out my Bradbury Class starship, now it is in 3D thanks to Kenny Mitchell of Axeman's 3D Homepage.

http://www.geocities.com/officersbible/

Thanks,

Lance Nutter
aka, yakaspat

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...and coming soon:
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thanks!

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TSN
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Um... Lance, you do know that you can't display a picture on the Internet unless you upload it to a server, right? It can't be just on your hard drive...
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It looks pretty good, but the design looks a little silly with 2 deflectors, and its hulled/nacelles makes it look like a Double-Hulled cruise liner!

Buzz

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Timo
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It's IMHO a bit difficult to recognize the torpedo tubes and impulse engines for what they are. Granted, in the TNG era, there doesn't seem to be a common design for these items. But somehow the tubes still look too angular somehow, and the impulse nozzles too large and too... unrestrained, with nothing in the way of heavy grillwork framing them like in the Galaxies or Intrepids or Prometheii or just about any other design that HAS impulse engines.

The ship might gain extra dignity from an impulse engine nozzle that looks more like a rocket engine, a big black mean thing like in the Galaxies. Or perhaps two or three big black mean things per nacelle, flat like in many ships and stacked atop each other?

Also, if the ship has badass multi-shot torpedo tubes but just one per direction, it might be nice to make the tubes bigger and more prominent by giving them larger fairings and all sorts of side exhaust ports and accelerator coil intercoolers and whatnot. Otherwise, the supposed main armament of the vessel looks wimpy.

Otherwise, I like the design a lot. The bow view is the weakest IMHO, with big clumsy rounded shapes. I wonder - if the nacelle undersides weren't shaped like Excelsior sec. hulls, but rather like boat hulls, concave instead of convex... Might that make the ship sleeker to look at?

Of course, it would also look even more like a twin-hulled pleasure cruiser.

Timo Saloniemi


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Mark Nguyen
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Coolness! So... What's your bridge design like?

Mark

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The359
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How are you guys seeing the pic?
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Masao
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The thumbnails pics aren't loading, but if you click on where the thumbnails should be, you get the full size pic!

I've liked this ship when I saw it at ASDB. But maybe those Excelsior-type secondary hulls are a bit big and thick.


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I'm afraid the front view just brings back too many memories of the USS Pamela Anderson... *L*
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That ship (the USS Pam Anderson) seemed really unlikely when i first saw it, but the next Trek series is going to feature the NCC-double-D commanded by seven of nine and subcommander t'pol with their crew of orion slave girls if they keep trying to substitute exaggerated bust proportions rather than decently written science fiction

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Some things I like about the design. Some thign I don't. It has some nice angles on it, and the idea of piggybacking the nacelles onto engineering hulls is interesting.

I too think the double-hulls are too chubby and Excelsior like. I also have never liked the idea of fitting the warp engines close to or through the primary hull. I remember Andy Probert told me he figured there was so much radiation et al coming from the nacelles you'd want them away from the crew. But, clearly, TPTB decided not to go that way later, so we're stuck with nacelles next to ths ship's nursery. hee hee

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Yakaspat The Trekker
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Heehee!

Sorry guys! That was my fault. I will fix this ASAP. Indeed, I am moving this page to my domain name, where the files are stored correctly...sorry about that. I was in a hurry to get these images out for you all to see!

Thanks for the comments. For those of you who suggested alterations, sorry, but, this is the finished product...the asdb, Kenny, Frederick, and I have tweaked it and tweaked it, and it finally matches the ship I had in my mind's eye...I love it as is!

Thanks for the comments.

yes, I do have a bridge!

I don't have an image, but here is a description:

*Captain's chair centered, no secondary command chairs.
*Dual forward positions, rounded, like the Defiant, in the positions typical on Fed bridges...the rounded consoles look like Pasteur consoles, but longers, and are at the 5 and 7 oclock positions. Ops and Conn.
*dual aft consoles, stand up models, no chairs, at the 2 and 10 oclock positions of the bridge. Same consoles as in the forward area, but standups. These, two follow the curve of the bridge walls, so they are inverted as compared to the forward positions. Tactical and Secondary Stations.
*large Master Situation Display behind captain and aft consoles, usual position. Doors flank this MSD. Both lead to turbo. Captains RR is on second deck, not bridge. (I wanted him to have the forward windows).
*along the side walls, at the 2, 3, 4, 10, 9, and 8, oclock positions, there are six stations, three on each side. These are the usual stations on a bridge. the screen is in the usual position, with the dedication plaque at the 5 oclock position.
*no railing, the consoles take up all the space...they should be large, not small like the Defiant.

lance

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Lance, you could have told me this before I did ther bridge exterior

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Yakaspat The Trekker
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Does it really matter Kris? Sorry! If it makes you feel better, what I described above is the USS Nova Scotia bridge...perhaps it is different from the USS Bradbury? :-)

So, in that case, go ahead and design a new bridge Mark! :-)

The page is now here, and all should be well:

http://www.thetrekker.org/bradbury.html

thanks,

Lance
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...coming soon:
www.thetrekker.org

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capped
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Ooh.. use the studio copout..

they swapped out the bridge module

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With this double hull it looks a little bit like the Yamato class from "Klingon Academy".

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