Vortex' WIP's; Lost Era Avenger Class

[Vortex]

I'm definitely going to finish this before the connie. There's plenty of those out there already and not very many of these. I should hopefully have more to show tomorrow. I really want to get this done. I'm trying to balance chronic procrastination, lack of self confidence and impatience. xD  I am, however, getting excited about this.

[Vortex]

A bit of work for today.



I need to reshape the back where it flows from the saucer, I don't have it flat enough at the minute. Also, the piece you see underneath; I had the ortho's scaled perfectly and it fit in every angle. Then I accidentally undid it all and couldn't get it back. xD

[Vortex]

I've had an idea for an Oberth variant for some time now, and I couldn't stop thinking about it at work today. I also wanted a small break from the Intrepid and to see what I could whack out of my head. Twenty minutes later, this is where I'm currently at. (Add half an hour for tea and trying to get the net back up. BT is crap, have to reboot the hub all the damned time.)







No great detail yet, just blocking out the shape. You may have noticed it's not exactly Oberth-ish. I'm thinking of making this a Lost Era ship, since I like the idea of that era. This'll probably come into service sometime around when the Ent-B does.

[Vortex]

Blocked in a weapons pod, and I think that's me done for today.



Tomorrow I shall be back onto the Intrepid.

[Phoenix Bondi]

let me introduce you the u.s.s. gardian i build for legacy a damn long time ago now lol, she won me first place in one of the few modeling comps over there

she has a weapons pod at the bottom too

[Vortex]

You preemptively stole my idea!! :p She looks nice.

I'll be adding a small secondary hull to the underside and having just the one weapons pod.

[TraxZion]

that's good progress your making

[Maxloef]

let me introduce you the u.s.s. gardian i build for legacy a damn long time ago now lol, she won me first place in one of the few modeling comps over there

she has a weapons pod at the bottom too

You're such a romulan, next think ull claim u invented star trek

[tiqhud]

You're such a romulan, next think ull claim u invented star trek

Actually, Phoenix , waited to see how it looked, and then jumped into his time Machine

[Vortex]

Ah, so that's where my TARDIS went. :p

Thankyou guys.

So, uhm... A slight confession. Ended up doing other stuff today, walk, workout etc. I wanted to block out a secondary hull for this thing. I'm not particularly happy with it, I think I need to get my hands on some decent Excelsior ortho's do find out how to built that style of secondary hull.

Anywho, some pictures. (I also shrunk the pod somewhat so it's not so huge.)

[Vortex]

I know that I promised to get back to the Intrepid but... I'm having way too much fun with this ship.

I wasn't intending domes for bussards. I was going to cross something similar Connie Refit for the front end and Excel/Ent-B for the rest.









Edit: So I stumbled upon Blender's transparency.

[nxadam1701]

 

Adam

[Vortex]

Just a couple of ortho's. I've taken some of the depth out of that secondary hull. Other than that, nothing else has changed.

[Gorandius1256]

This sort of reminds me of a Lost Era Saber (or Sabre) class in a way.

Nice work 

[Phoenix Bondi]

This sort of reminds me of a Lost Era Saber (or Sabre) class in a way.

Nice work 

now u mention it

[Vortex]

You guys trying to call my ship a monstrosity? :p

It makes me think of Serenity. Particularly from certain angles.

[ViperM1]

She's looking good   

[Vortex]

Thankyou Viper.

Realised at work that you guys were on about the Sabre, my mind was showing me Steamrunner. xD

Anywho, today's update. New weapons pod and pylons. Cowel over the nacelles and a shuttlebay.







For this ship, I'm thinking of it being a pre-cursor to the Defiant. It'll have that sort of role and several of them shall be patrolling the Klingon/Romulan neutral zones. I've been thinking of naming it the Avenger class.

[WileyCoyote]

I wanted to block out a secondary hull for this thing. I'm not particularly happy with it, I think I need to get my hands on some decent Excelsior ortho's do find out how to built that style of secondary hull.

The secondary hull is easy once you think of the basic shape. The front is 1/4 of a sphere, where it is curved on the front and sides. Just aft of the deflector area, you extrude more faces (by selecting a line and holding down shift or Ctrl **not at my computer at the moment**) to complete the side view. For the scoop, use the cut tool on the lines/faces you just extruded (this makes the side view of the scoop). Then select the lines of the scoop, extrude the lines to create faces (same process above) to create the "aft wall" of the engineering section. Use the symmetry modifier to make the engineering hull a correct solid shape, and you are done!

Since you are using Blender, this process will be different.

It also doesn't hurt to add more polies.

[Eloi]

I rather like this fusion of different designs.  Nicely done.