UFP MobileHQ Camelot

[WileyCoyote]

Holy carp, Villain/Prime, inappropriate comment removed  

Keep it to yourself please for everyone's sake.  :roll The ship looks really nice, but for me it needs some refinements- no offense Farshot.

[FarShot]

Sorry guys.  Just a little too happy. :angel

Anyways, yeah you're right Wiley.  After looking back at this design, I definitely see some things I'd change.

In particular, what do you have in mind?

[JimmyB76]

Sorry guys.  Just a little too happy. :angel

lol yeh, id say
there are some things in life that dont need to be publicly broadcast however ;)

[Vortex]

there are some things in life that dont need to be publicly broadcast however ;)

Lindsay Lohan? :p

Nice looking ship.

[bankruptstudios]

Lindsay Lohan? :p

Nice looking ship.

Cookie for that, you beat me to it.

[WileyCoyote]

In particular, what do you have in mind?

No offense again, but your design looks a bit clunky. Judging from the era this is supposed to be Post-Nem/ST:O era? Your ideas for the mobile starbase are good but other people like myself may interpret the ship differently. What if starfleet had more alien influences?

My version takes elements from the ST:3 spacedock, Copernicus station from Borg Invasion 4-D, the USS Typhon from ST: Invasion and some bits of my own design. Only torpedoes and pulse cannons are used. I kept some bits from Farshot's version- the front hangar door, the rotunda deck (new location) and the seperatable command section. I still have yet to design the other views and I just want everyone's opinion of it before I continue. I still have to redesign the warp nacelles and the secondary hull. This is a rough sketch.

[Biggins]

wow Wiley...she's a beauty

[Dalek]

No offense Wiley but that just looks like a slightly flatter oversized Nova with extra bits added on. If the nacelles were perhaps lowered to be perpendicular to the hull instead of at an angle above the hull, then it would still look a little like the original Camelot design with your design elements.

[WileyCoyote]

If the nacelles were perhaps lowered to be perpendicular to the hull instead of at an angle above the hull, then it would still look a little like the original Camelot design with your design elements.

That is what I was intending to do on a later revision, and maybe integrate the nacelles into the hull somehow. The current arrangement does look like a smaller ship. The secondary hull/engine area is just a rough version.

[FarShot]

Holy carp man, I am so honored that a modder of your esteem would even consider redesigning the Camelot, let alone producing a concept sketch like that! :eek  I'm not even sarcastic, I'm gonna cookie you for the rest of today as often as I can.

While it takes it away from the starbase-with-warp-nacelles towards more of a big starship feel, it looks pretty freakin sexy.  I tried with my nacelles and round saucer to capture the look of the Excalibur.  If you did a v2, I'd love to see more elements inspired by said Excalibur.

+1 cookie

[WileyCoyote]

While it takes it away from the starbase-with-warp-nacelles towards more of a big starship feel, it looks pretty freakin sexy. If you did a v2, I'd love to see more elements inspired by said Excalibur.

That is pretty much what the Excalibur was- a large starship with lots of windows. The same design could still fit even if it was a ship of half the size. I do have a new sketch inked and done, but it will be tomorrow until it gets posted here.

[WileyCoyote]

Sorry for the double post, but here's another version. I've added a revised secondary hull and added extra docking doors to the saucer design. I think I am making the overall ship design too small, too non-federation, and maybe too far into the future.

[Villain]

Actually, it looks quite neat, and seems to fit the fed design theme.

[FarShot]

This is essentially everything I want in the Camelot, but the design aesthetic is definitely as you said a bit too far in the future.  It has a very STO feel to it:  If Cryptic wanted to design an equivalent to the Klingon carrier ship, this would be it.

Also, the proportions seem to indicate a souped-up Nova or Rhode Island.  The nacelle to saucer ratio should be smaller, as the Camelot was not intended to be a fast ship.

[Vortex]

Cookie for that, you beat me to it.

Yummy! Thanks.

Wiley, that second concept looks great. How about putting the ships/bases name just above the hangar entrance and the registry below?

[WileyCoyote]

Here's some more sketches straight from my sketchbook. I was experimenting with using a standard spacedock saucer with an Excalibur hull, the other is a spacedock saucer with a Typhon-styled hull.

[FarShot]

Man, why don't we see your sketches more often?  Just looking at those is awesome!

I like all these ideas!  If every single one was made into a ship, I'd fly them all side-by-side as a mobile starbase fleet!

[WileyCoyote]

Man, why don't we see your sketches more often?

I do not sketch a lot.

I like all these ideas!  If every single one was made into a ship, I'd fly them all side-by-side as a mobile starbase fleet!

Every single one may not be made but one or two probably will. Maybe I could build one as a MkII?

[FarShot]

Dude, I'd be an idiot not to let you make these.  And I'm not an idiot (most of the time :angel).  Go ahead! ;)

[cinqnic]

Here's some more sketches straight from my sketchbook. I was experimenting with using a standard spacedock saucer with an Excalibur hull, the other is a spacedock saucer with a Typhon-styled hull.

are you planning some thing like this. i would stick with the other sketches