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I must admit, you make that awful kitbash look very good...
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Just goes to show,...it's the Modeler, not the Model! Fantastic work! I'll use these shots as reference for my physical 2500th scale model.
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You know, if it weren't for that third nacelle this ship wouldn't look half bad. Maybe this could be a propper class after all, if you loose nacelle #3 that is. Perhaps the tri-lobed warp field was some freaky experiment that was only used on one of these ships. Try doing a few renders without the offending engine and see what difference it makes. Great model as always BTW
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Damn good! . Actually, I've never really minded this design but I have to say it looks a hell of a lot better in 'proper' colours than the model's paint scheme.
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reverend you seem to have a bone to pick with three nacelled ships.. we know theyve happened before...
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Well thanks all, I'm kind of in agreement, as I wasn't a great fan of this design until the mesh was finished, and then I thought it wasn't half bad after all. It just shows that you can't always judge a ship by merely the schematics...
I have nothing against 3 nacelled ships. This is the fourth such example we've seen, and presuming we only know the minority of the classes commissioned since the UFPs founding, one would expect that such designs are consistently used.
But I'll try doing a few renders of only the two nacelles and see how it looks...
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Great work! I don't care for the third nacelle either... in fact, I hate it, but not simply because it's a third nacelle. I don't like how far down it hangs nor do I like it's nacelle pylons. If that third nacelle were tucked in a bit tighter and given a proper mount, I don't think it would be nearly as bad.
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Dang Mark, you DO make that ship look good!
I agree, if the third nacelle and pylons were removed it would look like a decent ship. In fact, it would look remarkably similar to the basic configuration of the old Reliant sketches (before they flipped the nacelles downward).
I have nothing against most three-nacelle designs either, but this one looks extremely unbalanced. In all the others, there's no great difference between the top and the bottom of the ship, and it appears that the center of mass is somewhere around the center. But with the Medusa, that third nacelle is hanging way out in the middle of nowhere.
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a beautiful explanation would be if the third nacelle was a seconary hull of some type.. i think it looks kinda Oberth-ish in that case.
and.. um.. the reason it looks like the original configuration.. well you do know what 'kitbash' means, right?
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Mabye replace the third nacelle with a Steamrunner deflector (use diffrent pylons though!)
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i kinda appreciate the pylons. its an idea ive liked ever since i saw the Akula-class from SotSFv2
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Maybe a little theory of mine might fit when looking at one of those pics up above.
Maybe this medusa only really had two nacelles (a copy for the bottom nacelle on top), as a quick repair to bring it home again (during that scene - if she was there)... the pair of nacelles were brought along and slotted in/gamma welded on top - as a makeshift repair.
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I think it would've been cool if, instead of the third nacelle, the top two were mirrored on the bottom half. That way it would be the Excelsior equivalent of the Constellation-class.
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Yes! And then we could savage it for months and call it unoriginal! Name it the Constellsior! Demand the producers' heads on duranium platters!
(Sorry, I'm going back to uni tomorrow and need to get some facetiousness out of my system.)
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