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TSN: You mean you don't LIKE the Equinox Actually there are parts of it I don't like too, but I did an angle that shows off its good parts. But yes, it is the Equinox Nova Class. The background and lettering are both done, I just have to put all the detail and highlights in the ship itself. I'd love to do one of the Nova classes from the TNG:TM, but by limiting myself to strictly cannon ships, I've fooled myself into believing I might actually get them all done some day.
Starbuck: Khai Tam? do you mean the piece I did for the fan club? That was kind of a cool piece to do. I had to use my Ent. D model for photo reference, then change alot of the details to make it a smaller saucer than the Galaxy's. Always fun. Getting paid to do Trek stuff. Does life get any better than that?
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Now wouldn't that be the dream?! "Hey Aban, I need a concept painting of the new uniforms, give me 5 ideas by the end of the day." or "Hey Aban. Fandango Class starship. We need an idea for Voyager's series finale. 3 ideas by Friday."
Nah. I could never handle the pace... I'll settle for doing the book covers some day. But it would be great!!
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Aban: Yeah, the piece for the fan club (USS Fox River) is a Khai Tam class, designed by the Starfleet chapter USS Khai Tam of Tallahassee, FL. Nice design innit?
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Somebody has actually done a mesh and several rendered images of the segmented saucer version. I can't remember whose site I saw it on though...
I agree that the Nova has its drawbacks, especially its pigbelly underside. But, in my pic, the underside isn't showing and all we see is the upper part of the saucer with that cool secondary nav dish all glowy and stuff
The problem with the ships in the TNG:TM is that all we see is the dorsal view. If they gave us a side view to go along with it, we might like them better. The problem the Tech Man created right off the bat was saying that this supposed Nova Class was going to be the Ent E. They had no reason to say this. The Ent D was designed to be in service for 100 years. They should have said that the Nova class was a new type of starship they were working on that would be in service soon. Had they said that, we could just assume that the Nova class we saw as the Equinox is what they ended up with.
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Personally, I rather prefer the segmented saucer-one too. But the one with the angular/curvilinear saucer would'nt look so bad with a bit of reworking. I did it and ended up with the Terra class but of course I have yet to scan it. (Made a crappy ASCII of it once but nobody seemed interested > ) Oh well... maybe if I get it scanned, someone will actually LOOK at it...
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Actually there are parts of it I don't like too, but I did an angle that shows off its good parts. But yes, it is the Equinox Nova Class. The background and lettering are both done, I just have to put all the detail and highlights in the ship itself. I'd love to do one of the Nova classes from the TNG:TM, but by limiting myself to strictly cannon ships, I've fooled myself into believing I might actually get them all done some day.
) Oh well... maybe if I get it scanned, someone will actually LOOK at it...
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