With a hint of ancient Egypt (WARNING: Pix heavy!)

[Adonis]

Ancient Egypt was always my favorite era of human history. Not only that they had the longest surviving governmental hierarchy, but also had the greatest warrior (Tutmoses 3rd, never lost a single battle of the 17 campaigns he led), a mythology that was ripped off numerous times, the first monotheistic religion, etc.

So, since it's obvious I like ancient Egypt, and also the movie era of Trek, I blended the two into a line of ship designs, set between the Ent-B and Ent-C.

The forerunner of these ships is the Connie-like Luxor class heavy cruiser:


...followed by the logical Saladin-like Malkata class destroyer and her Mk2 variant with mega phasers:


...and an Eagle-like one, this is the Mk2, with the mega phasers:


...and the Akula-like Tutankhamun (Mk2 has top mega Phasers, Mk3 has bottom ones too):


...and an Interstellar Machine special, the Medinet Habu:


...and the Sneferu class DN (Sneferu was the pharaoh who pioneered of pyramid building):


There will be more bashes to come.

[CaptainRussell]

The plating surrounding the bridge even looks like a pharoah's golden headdress - like Tut's; good job.

-CR

[Billz]

Ah! The curse of the third-nacelle strikes again but aside from that, those ships look amazing. Excellent job.

My favourite so far is the first one (Luxor Class). Why couldnt they have built something that awesome to be the Enterprise-A in ST:4, ST:5 and ST:6?

[Adonis]

Ah! The curse of the third-nacelle strikes again but aside from that, those ships look amazing. Excellent job.

Yeah, but there's a catch to it. Remember that on the Connie only the inside part of the plasma grid is lit up?

It's the same on the Luxor, and all of the 1 nacelle variants, the Tutankhamun, and the 3 nacelle one's center nacelle has them lit on both sides, depicting dual warp coils, so Gene's paired warp coils rule is kept.

[Billz]

The models look pretty much done to me. Have you moved onto HP and scripting work yet?

Just curious.

[Vortex]

Oh how I like the Luxor class.
I really can't wait for this.
Along with DJ's ships this'll make one of the best mods of the year.

[Adm_willie]

This looks great man! 8)  There was always a lack of lost era (timeline between Ent B and C) ships at BC. Again great work, looking forward to this

[Nighthawk]

I wonder how they would look in TOS styles.
or even in pre-TNG designs.

those speculars on the saucer look preety smooth. just as a real plating should be


-are those 3ds renders? I saw a projected shadow there, (BC doesn't cast shadows)

[Adonis]

-are those 3ds renders? I saw a projected shadow there, (BC doesn't cast shadows)

Yes, they're all rendered in 3dsmax.

[DJ Curtis]

These are really great Adonis.  I love the textures, particularly the windows.  They've got a great 3d look to them.  Personally, the Tutankhamun is my favorite.  I like how you've built up the saucer areas below the nacelle pylons.  Top notch buddy.

[MYar]

may i mary you . wow this is so cool , and I too always loved egypt , so you can expect me to download these immeaditly (SP) after release.

[RhVaurek]

 Very nice indeed! Those pharoah style headress patterns remind me of the blue ones that appeared on the excelsior class, lovely render too, is 3dmax free at all? I'd like to render some models and ships for wallpaper purposes at some point and perhaps eventualy use it for modding purposes too.

[moed]

Beautiful ships. I really like how you combined styles, they look quite canon.

Great job.

[Adonis]

BTW, some data:

Luxor's dimensions:
Lenght: 270.2 meters
Width:126.243 meters
Height: 63 meters

18 3.5 meter high decks

Insight into names (NCC codes that don't have a name are unnamed for now):

Luxor (City in today Egypt, in Ancient times Thebes (greek), Niwt (ancient egyptian):

NX/NCC-3200 Luxor City of Thebes/Niwt
NCC-3201 Ipet Sut  "The most venerated place." Temple of Karnak
NCC-3202 Abu Simbel  Temple of
NCC-3203 Philak "Remote Place" Temple of Philae
NCC-3204 Ineb Hedj "The White Walls" City of Memphis
NCC-3205 Abdju "The hill of the symbol or reliquary." City of Abydos

Sneferu (the pyramid builder pharaoh): (4th Dynasty Pharaohs)

NCC-3210 Sneferu (second pharaoh)
NCC-3211 Djoser (first pharaoh)
NCC-3212 Khufu (third pharaoh)
NCC-3213 Djedefra (fourth)
NCC-3214 Khafra (fifth)
NCC-3215 Menkaura (sixth)
NCC-3216 Shepseskaf (seventh)

Malkata (palace of Amenophis III):

NCC-3220 Malkata
NCC-3221
NCC-3222
NCC-3223
NCC-3224
NCC-3225

Ipet Resyt (Egyptian name for Luxor Temple):

NCC-3230 Ipet Resyt
NCC-3231 Djeser Djeseru (main complex of Pharaoh Hatshepsuths memorial temple, means "The Holy od Holies")

Medinet Habu (memorial temple of Ramesses 3rd):

NCC-3230 Medinet Habu

Tut-Ankh-Amun (King Tut ;)):

NCC-3240 Tutankhamun
NCC-3241 Ankhesenamun (Tut's wife)

[RhVaurek]

 You have definately done your homework, Impressive I also liked the ancient egyptians too, however I was always more partial to the Romans.

[Dawg81]

Fantastic Adonis u finally did what u never told u would do! hehehehe

[Adonis]

Fantastic Adonis u finally did what u never told u would do! hehehehe

But I did it from my parts ;)

[Paegus]

i'm not sure i can quite see the point to the Medinet Habu variant... but i eagerly await the Miranda version

though my mind now wonders off by itself to imagine trek ship designs that would be around if the monotheistic Egyptian religion nicked Christianity's place in the grand scheme of things. Barring any 'gate influence, I'm getting a generally Romulan feel.

[cordanilus]

Awesome designs for those ships.  Egypt is always a cool place to do research on.

monotheistic Egyptian

Ah yes, Akhenatan and Nefertiti worshipping the aten.



Would ship variants using the names of tut and his wife use their original names?

[Adonis]

Awesome designs for those ships.  Egypt is always a cool place to do research on.

Ah yes, Akhenatan and Nefertiti worshipping the aten.



Would ship variants using the names of tut and his wife use their original names?

No, I wanted to use the Amun suffix ones. After all they didn't use the Aten suffix names for long.