Hi. Here is the old version of the ship.(done with Adobe Photoshop4) : And here is the new version done with Corel Draw.
And a few sketches about a cutaway-view.
I will make the other views from the ship soon. Note: The Sterling class was my first starship and is based on the intrepid class.
Lobo
[ April 10, 2002, 09:37: Message edited by: Lobo ]
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I like that, nice and compact..... sweet lines.......
****wipes drool****
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
This is actually one of my favourite fan designs, ever. Just one observation: I can see why, from the front view, the Intrepid saucer would have that large notch/secondary deflector thing; without it, the nose does look rather featureless.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
*drools at cutaway*
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Wow, that's an impressive cutaway!
I like the design overall, but I think that the nacelles are just a bit too short. I've heard some people complain that their least favorite feature of the Intrepid is the stubby nacelles. I think they're fine, but the Sterling's engines are TOO short. (IMO, of course.)
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
That is really impressive, you really are a good 2D artist Lobo. I can't believe you did those pictures at the top with Photoshop!
Great design as well.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I don't have much to add other than I'm really impressed. Excellent work!
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
This is what the Intrepid class should've been.
Nacelles are bit on the short side... otherwise, great job.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Nacelles are bit on the short side... otherwise, great job.
Yeah . . . that's what I think whenever I see the side pic, but not the top one. Maybe stretch them a ickle bit. Otherwise - excellent job, especially those cutaways! Wow! I'd love to be able to do that sorta stuff, but sadly don't have the time or the skills. Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Lobo, have you studied that sort of stuff or are you just an artist genius?? That cutaway is awesome, methinks. I would love to draw like that, I have a lot of ideas for starship designs but I'm useless at drawing them. (And as for my favorite pastime - building them with LEGO - well, those curved shapes are a pain in the neck when it comes to LEGO...) Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
So it has an Intrepid-saucer but the Sovvie deflector and sovvie-torp launcher (and a double-barrel one at that)? Looks very good, like a real prospect for a mainstay escort/interceptor-vessel for large scale production, should the Feds get involved in another prolonged conflict.
Two of those and four Defiants makes an excellent battle wing...
Agree about the nacelles, maybe they could be a bit more like the Dauntless's, perhaps.
It is very good that they are so slimmed to the hull and not very exposed, that's a good argument for damage control, in a fight, IMO. To lose a nacelle is getting wingclipped, like poor USS Odessey...
Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :
Here i have begin to make deck layouts of the sterling class. Here,e.g. the layout of deck 9: What do you think?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Houston, we have a prodigy.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Very nice work indeed. However, I agree that those nacelles are far to short, perhaps you can give it some sort of deployment pylons to extend them away from the hull and give the nacelles themselves some kind of telescoping effect so that they can double in length when the ship goes into warp. A nice mechanical effent and a more advanced take of Voyager's variable geometry nacelles.
Mind you it's a bit late in the day for modifications like that.
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
The cutaways are great. I've always wanted to do cutaways of my own ships, but chickened out.
As long as the nacelles are so close to the midline, you might consider doing something really radical, such as putting the warp-drive coils together in a single nacelle on the midline. Just a thought
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Nice. Good to see a move away from curved corridors everywhere. But, am I correct in assuming there are only three turbolift stops on the deck and only vertical lift shafts and no horizontal shafts (so the vertical shafts placed in different locations among the various decks can link up with each other)?
Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :
quote:Originally posted by Masao: I've always wanted to do cutaways of my own ships, but chickened out.
DO IT MAN! Your ships are the best !
quote:But, am I correct in assuming there are only three turbolift stops on the deck and only vertical lift shafts and no horizontal shafts (so the vertical shafts placed in different locations among the various decks can link up with each other)?
There are four turbolift stops. Horizontal shafts are nopt on this deck, they are on another deck(s).
Lobo
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
God damn! He's doing pictures and deck plans!!!! Wow this guy is a master at drawing.
I can do pictures of ships from the typical views - port/starboard/fore/aft/ventral & dorsal, and even MSD-type diagrams and room plans, but an entire deck plan!! Damn that is kewl. I'd do them, except that most of my ships are 150m+ and when I get technical and consider the sloping hull, I get all and make a bog of it. Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :
Very nice deck plan concept. I especially like the way you have the compartments 'encapsulated' - with space between the room's interior wall and the corridor walls.
(Yes Ritten -I mean bulkheads. Nag, nag, nag...)
I wish I'd had that idea before I started on my own schematic/decl plan sets - would have saved a LOT of trouble fitting in compartments and corridors. Fairly attractive too.
BTW - Private (sort of) to Ritten) write more often - I don't think I still have your email. We're just about ready to reveal our upcoming projects on the web - and you were a big part of it all. I'd like to keep in touch. Same to Shik, Lance et-al.
Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :
The deck plans are really nice, good attention to detail. Of course, the evil sadistic part of me wonders how a compact fat-ass ship like this would fare in a powerless "crashing on a planet" scenario aka. Generations or Timeless. Methinks it would leave quite a big hole in the ground Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i think that ship rocks. fantastic work, Lobo.
Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :
Hi here is an other view of the ship: I am working currently on an new (detailed) cutaway.
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Wow! I'd love to be able to do that sorta stuff, but sadly don't have the time or the skills.
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and make a bog of it. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
