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It looks like a Galaxy ate a Nova... But I'm just bustin' chops.
I love it, especially the Nacelles. Truly original, but with enough design elements to still be recognised as a Fed design.
Kudos, and keep tweaking! I think you're on to something here.
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Shame Lobo doesn't seem to be around, but that won't stop me opining anyway!
First, this is a very nice design, very original with plenty of unique features. Well done!
The lip over the deflector (or round-down of the secondary hull or whatever) definately doesn't need a phaser strip. 90% of it's arc of fire would be restricted by the ship itself. Maybe it's my weird mind but this just leapt out at me at first glance.
I would like to see slightly more curvature around the deflector so that it blends a little more into the flat underside of the lip above it. This would separate the deflector slightly from the lip, promote the lines of the secondary hull, and make it look more like the deflector isn't being occluded in the same way that the phaser strip is.
I can't see where the torpedo tubes are, but they should definately go in the secondary hull, not in the traditional location on the neck. Trek ships always seem to be trying to fire these things through narrow slots bordered by big, important parts of their own ships hulls.
If the neck were shortened fore and aft so that the dark corrugated "throat" came back almost as far as the airlock on the side of the neck, then this would remove that very flat looking underside of the saucer and really give the ship a curvaceous, organic free flowing look. It would also help make the saucer separation look better as the underside of the saucers "belly" would not be interrupted. The neck would only attach at the flat area to the rear.
It's a great design and very impressive.
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I've never understood why they dont just place the saucer's phaser ring around the saucer's rim? It would cover both dorsal and ventral arcs that way.
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Same problem as they have in real life. The best arcs of fire also offer a radar or electro-optical system the best possible horizon. Add to that the fact that sensors don't always weigh quite as much as weapons systems anyway, so you often can't put big guns or missile launchers in the same positions to start with. So, the sensor usually gets pride of place because while you may have the best possible position from which to shoot, it don't do you no good if you can't first see the target coming!
I understood that the edge of the saucer was the typical home of long range sensors. These particular items would therefore have a very high priority.
If the perfect coverage is what you're after than starfleet ships are a very poor shape. They should dispense with saucers, integrate both hulls into one long needle shape, keep the nacelle struts as short as possible and the nacelles as close to the hull as possible and mount three whopping big weapons: one in the nose and one top and bottom of the engineering section to cover the blind spots around the nacelles and over the stern, whilst also being able to fire ahead as well.
Basically a big flying phallus with a huge gun in the end
And like Mark says, if you put one on top and one on the bottom, you've got redundancy.
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She'd crush you between her mighty tutonic thighs if she's anything like the large-breasted germans i know (and that's just the ladies).
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quote:Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus:
If the perfect coverage is what you're after than starfleet ships are a very poor shape. They should dispense with saucers, integrate both hulls into one long needle shape, keep the nacelle struts as short as possible and the nacelles as close to the hull as possible and mount three whopping big weapons: one in the nose and one top and bottom of the engineering section to cover the blind spots around the nacelles and over the stern, whilst also being able to fire ahead as well.
OR, you make one giant sphere that can rotate any axis without changing ship direction....then you call it "Death Star"
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Nah, don't like spheres. Too much wasted internal volume around the inner hull and they're an absolute sod to balance correctly when thrusting.
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quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: She'd crush you between her mighty tutonic thighs if she's anything like the large-breasted germans i know (and that's just the ladies).
Failing to see the bad.
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