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

http://thetrekker.homestead.com
...and coming soon:
www.thetrekker.org

thanks!
 

Buzz
 

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
 

Mark
 

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

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
 

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

http://thetrekker.homestead.com
...coming soon:
www.thetrekker.org
 

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
http://thetrekker.homestead.com
...coming soon:
www.thetrekker.org
 

they swapped out the bridge module
 

(Er, apart from the actual girls around here, obviously).
 

*reexamines his life*
 

Let me see, firstly, I was referring to Kristian Trigwell, one of the co-creators of this model, who goes by Reverend here. I thought you all knew that, sorry.

Um, as for the Klingon Academy game, yeah, I am well aware of that. However, I designed this ship back in 1996 in High School study hull with Frederick Keith. We are both members of the ASDB, as is Reverend (Kristian), Fabrux, and several other regular posters here...they can all back me up that this ship was not copied off a lame computer game (sorry, I hated that game...the most buggy Star Trek game to date).

As for the ship looking like Pamela Anderson...I guess there could be worse insults! LOL

As for the Excelsior comments, true, the ship's dual hulls do look like Excelsior hulls. However, this was intentional. Many Fed ships share similar designs. And, if any comments are made that this ship is too new to have Excelsior-look alike hulls, I'll gladly point out the Pasteur-slash-Daedalus similarities, and the Galaxy-slash-New Orleans simitlarities, and, to a new extend, the modernness of the new Enterprise! LOL

Anyway, I love this ship, I think it looks great. Is it a bit bulky? Perhaps.

Anyway, thanks for comments!

Lance
http://thetrekker.homestead.com
www.thetrekker.org ...under construction
 

So someone tell me more about these 'girl' creatures?
 

I envisioned something a little different. Maybe a cross between a Intrepid and a Akira class with the over all layout being similar to the enterprise.