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Okay guys! I posted some new shots of he starships Gao Yao, Endeavor and Telar! The Gao Yao is my tanker/cargo ship/ antimatter carrier. The Telar is a science oriented variant on the Olympic class and has two extra shuttlebays and a large planetary sensor. And a better color scheme.
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I like that tanker too. Having the cargo pods outboard is an interesting switch. Who or what is "Gao Yao"?
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Telar, eh? No doubt one of the zillions of Vulcans in a science field. ("Vulcans in science?? The DEUCE you say, sir!") Why did you mount the nacelles with a 90-degree rotation?
The Gao Yao looks pretty good; nice to see someone else other than me doing tankers. Those tanks are pretty big, though. Hmm. What did you use for them? Also, I would have (& have done!) put the nacelles much farther away from the tanks so that in case of an emergency, there's no problems with shooting off either nacelles or tanks. But that's me & my design ethos.
What you might want to do is look through the Wayback Machine at my old website (www.skynjun.org) & look through the ship models i had there. There's a couple tankers & transports, & the concepts on operation & design there may give you some ideas.
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quote:Originally posted by Masao: I like that tanker too. Having the cargo pods outboard is an interesting switch. Who or what is "Gao Yao"?
Gao Yao is an old Chinese god of justice and equality. I'm trying to keep my fleet from being all WWII names. I wanted the tanker's podson the outside so the ship could cut 'em loose at warp in case of emergency. Also, I like the FASA designs with the nacelles closer together and toward the ships center.
The Telar is named to contrast the more aggressive USS Andor that I built some months back. I needed more science ships too, so here we are. I did my best to address and correct some of the Olympic class' features that bug the hell out of me: the nacelles in particular on the "stock" version look silly and frail to me and the large flat disk at the shpere's ventral apex really needed something as well.
I'll have to get better shots of that open shuttlebay though: it turned out sweet, but alas, my photography skills are not up to par with mt modeling skills...yet.
BTW: the Gao Yao's cargo containers are super glue containers -that should give you some idea as to how small she is!
I'll check your site Shik: I can always use ideas and apreciate your designs.
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Wait, it's named after the planet? That's Tellar. The Vulcan name fits better.
Hmm. Now that I look at it, not so sure about the shuttlebays. It's weird-ish. I could have seen removing or filling in sdome of the lifeboat hatches on the secondary hull to form more sensor arrays; presumable the medical section stuff is/was in there & since there's no patients to evac...
And...are those yellow odts on the fwd dorsal sphere phaser bumps??
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The ship's named Telar because "porkchop" would be demeaning to the hogs...er...Telleraies.
I don't know exactly what those yellow dot things are...they're on the Olympic- I didint add them! I think the two smaller rings on the sphere are intended to be phasers on an Olympic anyway, so I'd guess the bumps are sensors or a secondary deflector.
Naming the ship "USS Vulcan" would become an ongoing joke: "Sir, the Vulcan is hailing us again." "Ignore that green-blooded-son-of-a-bitch!"
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No, I meant "Vulcan name" as in, "Oh, it's named after Telar, the Vulcan who helped develop the isolinear circuitry matrix" or some such.
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Nobody has commented on the Endeavor so I guess it's a case of "seen one Nebula, ya seen 'em all".
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seeing as Navy ships are named after current states and land masses, Starfleet probably does the same for planets and systems (examples abound, Deneva, Rigel, Aries, etc)
in the case where confusion would exist, i theorize theyd use the overly formal version of the planets name, USS Terra rather than USS Earth, perhaps USS Vulcanis rather than USS Vulcan.. itd be a fun wayto use that obscure nomenclature
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Lovely work on the Endeavour, looks very good given the size it appears to be. The most interesting design however is the fuel carrier, lookslike a very practical and balanced design. How large are these models physically, the carrier in particular looks to minute! I gave up on physical modelling when I discovered Lightwave 3D, my models always looked like they'd had the brushwork details applied by a blind man with Parkinsons disease. No such bother with CGI, but no model to play with either.
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Love the Gao Yao! What an interesting design! I like the way the nacelles are protected, kind of a combat transport idea!
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The gao yao is 4.5" long, the Telar is 5.75" and the Endeavor is 7.5" long.
All are 1:2500th scale.
Yes, the nacelles on the Telar are turned deliberately. They look much better that way.
The Gao Yao is indeed a military style tanker and even has aft phasers, although by no means is she a combat vessel. That's what escort ships are for.
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