Author Topic: flarespire's WIP's - Valhalla Class Starship (Read 5570 times)

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #60 on:** February 08, 2015, 10:58:32 AM »

I like the inlets on the sides of the saucer section. One thing I'd say is to smooth the leading edges of the nacelle pylons separately from the ventral on dorsal faces unless you're going to add more segments. It will actually look smoother.

flarespire · « **Reply #61 on:** February 08, 2015, 11:17:17 AM »

Thanks for the advice DJ, glad your liking her! I'm hopefully going to be on Skype with Wiley later on, so Ill ask him on the best way to sort that out.

flarespire · « **Reply #62 on:** March 17, 2015, 03:39:50 AM »

It's been a while, but College kinda stepped up on the workload, anyway here's a new update, Big thanks to Wiley for all the help hes given me on the nacelles (a.k.a sending me a half finished nacelle design we did from before I actually knew how to model and letting me finish it off.)

hobbs · « **Reply #63 on:** March 17, 2015, 09:11:24 AM »

Really good job there well Don you ate mastering ship modelling it seems...I hope I get as good

andyp · « **Reply #64 on:** March 17, 2015, 11:12:43 AM »

My God, Its full of Win. It's like an STO era nova class.

flarespire · « **Reply #65 on:** March 17, 2015, 11:16:09 AM »

Emphasis on the word "Like", I intend her to be around double the size of a Nova.

Vortex · « **Reply #66 on:** March 17, 2015, 11:19:05 AM »

Looking awesome.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #67 on:** March 20, 2015, 11:37:17 AM »

i like it!
i has a Nova-ish Class feel to it, and my fav ship is the USS Rhode Island (my home state in the US lol) - looking forward to watching this unfold

flarespire · « **Reply #68 on:** March 21, 2015, 08:28:45 PM »

Well she ain't small anymore! Coming in at a total deck count of 24, here is the weaponized Valhalla! With a indescribably large amount of thanks once again to WileyCoyote for helping me fix her up, smooth her and get her ship shape. Cheers Wiley!

Images ( :eek pretty...) :

flarespire · « **Reply #69 on:** March 23, 2015, 09:27:05 AM »

Started to map the ship after having a 3 hour long argument with 3DS Max on whether or not it actually wanted to start working:

Vortex · « **Reply #70 on:** March 23, 2015, 11:09:08 AM »

There's a lot to like about this one. It's a solid design. The only thing I'd recommend changing, if it isn't too late, is the angle of the cutout for the deflector. On the side view, it looks rather sharp and doesn't flow with the rest of the ship. Something more akin to Eaves' original Ent-E concept sketches may work better there.

flarespire · « **Reply #71 on:** March 23, 2015, 01:09:06 PM »

To be honest, I did try that out, and although it gave the ship a little bit of a better flow to it, it felt wrong, especially considering the size of the deflector and how that area is constructed. At this point I really just want her out of the modeling and texturing phase, but I will keep that revision in mind if I decide to do a refit version of the design.

Tethys · « **Reply #72 on:** March 23, 2015, 01:53:07 PM »

I think it flows rather nicely, like a Prometheus Intrepid lovechild

Bones · « **Reply #73 on:** March 23, 2015, 01:56:16 PM »

More like a replacement for Nova. I've got to say she looks ace ! very clean design, can't wait to see what will you come up with texturing her ;) keep up good work

flarespire · « **Reply #74 on:** March 23, 2015, 01:58:31 PM »

guys, she isn't a replacement for the nova, as I stated earlier, shes got 24 decks and is roughly the size of a sovereign... :roll

But I'm glad you guys like her, did anyone happen to notice rather different phaser strip placements for the aft-ventral quarter?

Tethys · « **Reply #75 on:** March 23, 2015, 02:21:29 PM »

If she is that big, might want to scale down those Defiant style torpedo launchers.. just a suggestion

flarespire · « **Reply #76 on:** March 23, 2015, 02:27:05 PM »

they're not torpedo launchers, they're pulse phasers and I'm not doing any more modification to the model now that Iv'e started to UVMap it.

Vortex · « **Reply #77 on:** March 23, 2015, 02:48:33 PM »

I'm just glad you haven't killed it by adding one of those Voyager style secondary deflectors on the saucer.

Haven't noticed the phasers.

FarShot · « **Reply #78 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:42:51 PM »

Hey, secondary deflectors are cool.

Bones · « **Reply #79 on:** March 24, 2015, 07:59:59 AM »

Oh, I remember it started as something smaller

I missed the deck count info

Pulse phasers looks right to me, also I don't like saucer deflectors, so it's good you didn't put it there ;)

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