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Yeh I thought it was fitting. Not only was the real HMHS Britannic of the Olympic Class of ocean liners (sister to Titanic), it served as a Hospital ship during WWI, (before being sunk in the Med by a German U-Boat).
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I named one of my Olympics the Carpathia, after the ship who came to the rescue of the few Titanic survivors. More other Olympics are the Caduceus and the Familia.
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Actually, I think Bill George from ILM made the USS Pasteur. It just so happens that when the six foot Enterprise-D was going through a retrofit for Generations while AGT was being filmed.
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Great work, the lighter hull colour makes all the difference!
You're defiantly getting better at making decals, the spacing is allot tighter than usual.
The only criticism I would make however is that it looks like some of the windows and hatches on the secondary hull come a little too close to the edge of the ventral undercut.
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Thats as maybe, but what we have here is a fine model of a fugly ship. I suppose it's a great design for what is basically a flying hospital, but it's not the sleekest or most graceful option. I don't know what you guys see in it, it's a TNG'd version of an ancient design. Blech. Good model though.
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The olympic class is a perfect and original ship. It's graceful and most of all a believeable ship. I can picture flying into one of it's shuttle bays and walking its many decks.
I reckon it's not just a hospital ship - it's just that we've only seen it as hospital ship. Who knows - 25 years post AGT... they might have made the olderships the hospital ships.
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It occurs to me that (with TNG's medical tech) it'd take a major disaster to ever use a Olympic to it's full capacity. The ship must have hundreds of beds...at least!
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A good and very interesting variant there Jason. Most cool. I have to say though I do like the Olympic. I would say it was particularly original, rather than a rehash of an old design. I mean, isn't virtually every other ship a rehash and rearrangement of the Connie..?
Many thanks for the positive comments:
Reverend: Believe it if you can, all decals are modelled! right down to the Starfleet Medical logo. It was easier in this instance to get a finer precision in matching it to the physical model. Mapping images across a sphere isn't the simplest thing, besides, drawing the logo for instance in Photoshop would've been my idea of a nightmare. I see that some of the windows appear to be close to the edge in places but the shadow along the rather severe smoothing angle makes it deceptive.
AndrewR: Thanks for the picture, I didn't have that one as reference. It would have been very useful, and still will be as I refine the details.
Kenny: cheers. 'Fugly' it might be to some, but I rarely subscribe to the purely aesthetic option. This design has tons of character.
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A few slight amendments here, including increased smoothing bias in the upper secondary hull unit, further hull and sphere detailing (not really observable in this image), and some texture refinements.
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quote:Originally posted by The Red Admiral: Kenny: cheers. 'Fugly' it might be to some, but I rarely subscribe to the purely aesthetic option. This design has tons of character.
I agree. Now go build us a nice Elkins!
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