Author Topic: Sojourner Prototype Starship (Read 2942 times)

Arvis Taljik · « **on:** August 22, 2012, 01:04:22 AM »

Well I decided to start on my first Star Trek ship to build from start to finish. I've tried various other designs before but never successfully. I combined several design elements from ships I've seen online (Galen82's Wanderer/Renown class) along with existing canon designs (Sovereign, seen in the engines). I left an alternate engine design in the model but will likely just stick with the Sovereign-style nacelles.

Working on textures now, so hopefully they turn out well.

baz1701 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2012, 03:53:42 AM »

I like it, good work.

starship · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2012, 08:10:35 AM »

Looks very good! I like her.

Bones · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2012, 09:06:27 AM »

I like that Defiant-ish nose

bottom of it would be ideal for fighter bay ;)

Arvis Taljik · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2012, 09:49:53 PM »

Progress on texturing so far. I've found out that aztec-ing is the bane of my starship-creating existence... Easy, but horribly repetitive and mind numbingly boring.

But anyways, let me know what you guys think.

Based on the size of the windows I'm using, she should end up around 20-ish decks.

@Bones: while I was planning to have her stats list her as carrying two Valkyrie-class fighters, the front area was actually intended to be a slipstream-dedicated deflector. We'll see though.

bdfd · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2012, 01:00:18 AM »

Hi,

Great !

Go on

Darkthunder · « **Reply #6 on:** August 23, 2012, 12:27:16 PM »

My only suggestion (thou it would've been better pre-texturing stage), would be to make the stardrive a bit more "rounded". Using Excelsior or Sovereign style for the forward end of the stardrive. The saucer section looks pretty good, just the stardrive which seems a bit "boxy" at current.

Nice start.

Mario · « **Reply #7 on:** August 23, 2012, 03:30:00 PM »

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@Arvis Taljik
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Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 23, 2012, 07:31:49 PM »

I really like the color scheme you've chosen for this ship.

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #9 on:** August 23, 2012, 08:00:11 PM »

I'd go with the other style nacelle. Fits the design just as well, and is much more original.

Arvis Taljik · « **Reply #10 on:** August 23, 2012, 09:33:57 PM »

Took Darkthunder's advice on smoothing the stardrive but all I ended up doing was beveling the underside and adding an extra line of verticies on each side of the upper portion to give it a bit more curve.

With gridlines:

With smoothing applied:

I'm also not very happy with the deflector area of the stardrive, so I'm open to suggestions on what I could possibly do with it.

BFGfreak · « **Reply #11 on:** August 23, 2012, 09:54:06 PM »

Have you looked into something like what's on the sovereign or excelsior stardrive, for some reason your hull seems to remind me of those deflectors.
Then again, what you do is up to you.

Starforce2 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 23, 2012, 10:20:24 PM »

why not use more advanced looking equinox engines instead ???

Arvis Taljik · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2012, 10:01:20 PM »

Just a quickie of my current texturing progress on the underside of the saucer. Really just need to add detail lines and such before moving on to the little bits like phaser array warning markers and such. Then it'll be on to texturing the upper part of the main hull.

EDIT:

Finished the underside of the saucer and now working on the upper primary hull. Before starting this section I also moved and remodeled the torpedo launchers as their previous position didn't look all that great.

Arvis Taljik · « **Reply #14 on:** September 05, 2012, 05:09:45 PM »

Small texturing update:

Jb06 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 05, 2012, 05:25:08 PM »

There's some good texturing going on here

Cookie

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 06, 2012, 12:15:04 AM »

Seconded. Very impressive work for your first mod!

Arvis Taljik · « **Reply #17 on:** September 06, 2012, 03:33:23 AM »

Thanks for the encouragement!

Once this girl is done, I'm seriously considering putting the Odyssey class on my chopping block of ships to do. Would give me the chance to fix a few things I don't like about the design overall.

We'll see though. The Odyssey is a big step up in starship design over this thing I'm working on.

Adonis · « **Reply #18 on:** September 06, 2012, 03:42:03 AM »

Good stuff. You could add some overlays to the windows.

Vortex · « **Reply #19 on:** September 06, 2012, 05:28:43 AM »

Looking good. I'd extent the stardrive section out to the nose, though, if you're going to have a big deflector there.

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Author Topic: Sojourner Prototype Starship (Read 2942 times)