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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

This is, of course, what you may get when crossing John Eaves's scoutship with my Rapier.
The "Bonsai" is a redo of the other fighter (a type 9-ish critter that looked neutered) on my SMR page.
The "Bonsai" Type 15, Class F, shuttlecraft stands at 15.2 meters long, by 8.2 meters wide, small enough to fit inside most standard shuttlebays. Weapons include two Type VI phaser array strips, two phaser cannons and one torpedo nested in a shallow cavity and clamped to a compressed gas launcher. The launcher is known as a Gas Aided Momentum Release system. The canopy allows ingress/egress and is covered with sensors to provide visual imformation to the virtual holographic wrap-around viewer. The viewer is actually on the underside of the sensor "skin", which can be jestisoned if damaged beyond use, allowing the pilot to see out through the transparent aluminium bubble. As you can tell, the canopy looks like a bridge module. This is purposeful to confuse the enemy about the actual size of the craft, causing doubt with either their eyes, or the scanners.
Crew is one.

Sublight Velocities
Cruise: .25c
EMER: .5c
VMAX: .7c

These velocities are well within the standard for limited tau factor (time dilation) exposure. VMAX, or velocity maximum is only used in extreme duress and does irreversible damage to the impulse engines. If the spaceframe survives, the engines must be replaced.

Warp Velocities
Cruise: 1
Max: 2 (10c) for 48 hours.
EMER: 3 (39c) for one hour.

I am working on a computer drafting of this.

[This message was edited by Cargile on June 03, 1999.]

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Ooh, Mongo like, Mongo LIKE!

Look forward to seeing more of this ship.. especially since I just can't make out the lettering in the labels. o_0

Bonsai, eh? USS Elm and USS Larch, sister ships?

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Posted by bear (Member # 124) on :

Blinks....blinks.....Damn!!!

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Please explain, why you aren't on Star Trek - you talented freak! wow! heh heh

love it Cargile...

Andrew

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

That is one cool design. Makes the rest of us look bad and my designs like chicken scratches. Keep it up.

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Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :

I'm finding myself quite impressed. Very nice work, Cargile. Do you have a side view as well? And, I noticed the registry number on the fighter. Is this a registry separate from the ship, like a runabout, or the same as the ships, like a shuttle?

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

Er, make that Bonzai with a Z! (Yikes!)

Andrew: I don't know why.

Tec: I've been drawing for most of my life, you will get better the more you do.

Yes the number is like a shuttle. The tentative number here is NCC-77039/18 belonging to a USS Avondale. I've done a real detailed MSPaint trace-over of the top view. The picture is huge. I've done one color that I need to shade and decale, and one with the data that I'm not happy with because the lines are too blurred. They should be up this weekend.
I've upgraded the phaser array to type vii.
The side view has been a pain. I will get it done soon.

Posted by monkeyboy on :

NICE!.
Do that in 3d or schematic and wow!!!
U play Wing Commander??
Looks a a lot like a panther but I like yours alot better

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Very cool design!!
Can't wait to see the side view.

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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Make that bAnzai..

unless you meant the small tree, in which case it is bonsai with an s.

Did I mention it was a great design? *throws away pencils*

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Cargile, as I've said - beautiful work - and its true what you said the more practice the better you get - and I'm glad you posted it cause it shows how to do things - its like creative writing - you get better at it by reading more examples - i.e. novels etc.

Andrew

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Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :

Damnit, Cargile!

*L*

Great...the detail makes the image. I also like the sharpness of the forward section.

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

So it is BANZAI! A small Japanese tree hardly seems threating.

No wonder I couldn't find it in the dictionary.

Wing Commander. I have an outdated Super Nintedo game, but it is no inspiration.

A good trick for accurate symetry is to fold the paper in half before you draw, leting the crease be the center line. Draw one half of the ship, fold, shade in over the lines to carbon coby, then trace.

Top Color image

[This message was edited by Cargile on June 04, 1999.]

Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

Wow!

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

It looks... kind of Klingon, actually. Although, that probablt comes from the scoutship influence. It was slightly Klingon-shaped, too, thought less so than this... :-)

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Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :

That color image is spectacular, Cargile. I'm always amazed by the time and effort you put into these magnificent ships.

Are these fighters to become a standard compliment, or are they only to be stationed on SMR ships?

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Posted by monkeyboy on :

Hope this works

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Very nice =)

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

I'm not happy with the shading. None of my art software has any good techniques that are simple and fast. I'd like to do something as good as what is published in the Star Trek magazine.

For those that are curious, the tiny lettering near the canopy and on the warp cowling read: Caution: Sensor assembly. Radiation hazard, and, Warning. Plasma induction lines. Insure magnetic fields are activated.

Definately going to be SMR material if I ever get around to working on that again. However, the registry of the assigned carrier is not SMR format, even though the Avondale is SMR. So there is no reason why this fighter couldn't be seen to be a recent addition to the fleet.

Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :

My comments have been stolen. What's that ship's name?

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

I know I really shouldn't be critiquing your work, cause it'smuch better than I could do, but shouldn'tthe red stripe be shaded in certain spots to look like it fits the contours of the ship?

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