Just a rough workup, lots of knife and arrow shapes for that evil edge.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Is this post-Dominion War? Cause the nacelles look very Jem'Hadar. But 'tis cool.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
It's supposed to be pretty late in the timeline, yes. I never thought about the Jem Hadar look, I suppose there's a little of that in them. Once they're detailed and have their glowing bits they should be well different.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
It's not Axeman's fault . . . it's the Eaves Nacelle.
Except in cases of specific guidance (e.g. the unused Klingon battlecruiser), most of the Eaves ship designs have the same basic look. Nowhere is this more true than the nacelles, which all feature the same unoriginality (it wasn't original the first time he used it, 'cause he was just copying off someone else).
You can see the Eaves Nacelle in the Jem'Hadar ships, though as noted he continued that from Jim Martin's fighter. However, he kept using the same design for ENT-era Romulan ships, not to mention the almost direct lift of Dominion nacelles to Klingon raptors.
Indeed, to my mind the E-E nacelles are related to that design, except insofar as it had sex with the TMP nacelles.
So yeah, he successfully replicated the Eaves design philosophy.
[ April 07, 2010, 06:47 AM: Message edited by: Fabrux ]
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
I had no Idea I was so easily influenced!
The only 'Eaves Nacelle' I was actually aware of was the one used on his new Klingon D4 design, made in 3D by Deg. I never watched more than one or two Enterprise episodes, hardly any Voyager and lost interest in DS9 pretty quickly. The Jem Hadar and their ships are therefore something I never really saw much of.
The nacelle design is one of the most important bits of the ship, and one of the hardest to get right. My reasons for making this basic shape were twofold; I wanted it to look sleek and fast, and I wanted it to look pointy and dangerous like a knife or spear. I was in two minds about turning them backwards, but we'll see.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Sorry, I didn't mean to say "replicated" . . . sounds mean.
I was just saying you actually made a ship that looks like it "should", given that Eaves was the designer of the time period you were aiming for. You're doing a Franz Joseph to Eaves' Matt Jefferies, if you prefer . . . maintaining the style while expanding upon it.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
In other news, the ship looks great! I really like the compound curves on the aft body as seen in 3/4. Makes me think of bat'leths and mek'leths.
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