Vortex' WIP's; Lost Era Avenger Class

[KrrKs]

That looks too crowded now, and feels like overkill. I would remove the ones above the warp nacelles

It really screams overkill right now...

[Vortex]

Thanks for the input. I'll probably do a couple of variants.

@Locke: I'm thinking of doing smaller versions of the Excelsior impulse engines and flipping them upside down. I'll put them in a similar arrangement that I had on the first model a page or two back.

@Adam: Avenger will be a precursor to the Defiant. She'll come into service around the time of the Enterprise-B and and be decommissioned a year or two before TNG takes place.

[nxadam1701]

Thanks for the info

[Vortex]

A quick bit of pushing vertex' and this is where it's at:

[nxadam1701]

I like it. 

[Locke]

I was thinking of something like this:



An under-over arrangement, with another pair on the starboard side.  It would make them protected from enemy fire since they would be hidden by the nacelles on a broadside run and would present a low target during fore or aft attack runs.  If an enemy were to get behind you, it would also present a much smaller target than a wide, single-array impulse system.  Four small engines versus one large one would allow for multiple redundancy when faced with a larger opponent.

Plus it fills that empty area between the nacelles and the primary hull which will be unoccupied otherwise.

[Vortex]

Not set on placement yet, but here's a quick knock up of the impulse units:

[007bashir]

If you make those engines that wide, they should be longer

[WileyCoyote]

If that is a Miranda-styled weapons pod, I would suggest to reshape it.

[Vortex]

It was based more on the Constitution than the Miranda. I'm open to suggestions, so long as it fits the Lost Era aesthetic.

Quick update to the impulse engines, now longer.

[Commander_One]

Like everyone else has said, this is a really good design, however I do like the nacelles on the first version you did better than the ones on here.  They seemed to fit the 'lost era' design, and so far the new ones seem to be more TMP'ish.  I'm attaching a photo....they definitely seem more integrated into the overall design.   

Cookie for sure!

[Vortex]

Thanks. I'm glad that the design is liked.

As the Ent-C is the only ship from the LE that we see with Red bussards and glowing grilles, I tend to think that that design aspect came back with the Ambassador class. Since this ship pre-dates that, it's more in line with the movie aesthetics. However, I may do a refit. I do have ideas for a 25th century version called New Avenger.