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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Axeman 3D: [QB] :) Thanks for the rapid input chaps, very good. Colonial Viper, eh? I was expecting a barrage of Delta Flyer jibes but the Galactica reference is a new take on things. I suppose the rough layout is reminiscent of the Viper, but so are many things and you have to admit that Vipers were about the one good thing to come out of Battlestar Galactica. What you guys have to bare in mind here is that this is a very early work-in-progress, what I'm looking for from you guys is tips on what equipment it needs and where it should be placed on the ship to conform to accepted Starfleet norms. It might also help if you check out how the original looked when we finished it 18 months ago... [URL=http://www.treknology.org/archangel-elevations.jpg]Archangel version 1.0 Ortho Layout[/URL] As you can see the newer version is a somewhat slippier design, despite the crappy aerofoils and boxy arse. What I was aiming for was a Trek equivelant of a ship I read about in 'The Mote in Gods Eye' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It was a courier ship, a 'message sloop' it was called, a small and fast ship crewed by the toughtest men to get the message/parcel/VIP through. As for my design, the ship is about 16 metres long right now, crewed by 2 and with seating and fold-down bunks in the rear so pilots can sleep in rotation. Entry will be via ramp from the rear, I don't like the old door on the original, and I think it's going to have extending langing legs of some sort (look good in animations). It's boxy at the rear because it needs to be, and the 'wings' serve no other purpose than to house equipment like the micro-torp launchers and the warp drive. In a time of field technologies and space travel I think it's moot to mention aerodynamic stability, this thing wont see much except hard vacuum for most of it's life. If I make it sleeker at the back it becomes too new, too reminiscent of the type 9 and we then have the problem of how to enter and exit it. The intakes at the sides are just placeholders right now, Reverend has sketched up a design for the intakes that once again harks back to the defiant, with a heavy barred unit being installed with the bottom half as bussards and the top half as some indistinct grille. I'll build it and let you see what you think. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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