The Flagship Project - Ideas - Size/Layout

[cptjeff]

I just took a bunch of shots- I'll post them oday hopfully- a few normal veiws, a few details.

[cptjeff]

here they come. 10 pics.

[ajohnson]

Looks like Galactica to me.

[Deleted]

Resembles the Akira to me

[cptjeff]

?? i don't follow that series, I don't know what you mean.

Also, it wouldn't be just like that- that's the frame- it would be solid, but hte way k'nex work, solid is virtually impossibele. Imagine that wrapped in tinfoil.

[ajohnson]

[cptjeff]

the only resembance I se is in the naccelle attachment and genral starfleet configuration. (saucer, engineering, nacceles) the pylons are the only thing that look the same to me.

Edit: accually, looing at it again, if you turned that arond and took off the current front section it would look similar....

[ajohnson]

I don't mind the design though. Might not work so well with the Saucer Seperation though.

[cptjeff]

It is a frame... perhaps someone with 3-d modleing could come up with a rough draft and If we liked it we could scetch the location of the separation plane?

[jared]

Seperation sections are generally quite easy to work out; it can be done with a simple mortis and tenon type of connection between one and the other.

Also, do we want nacelles down or nacelles up?
Someone said they wanted to keep the classic design.

[cptjeff]

Calsic can mean many things. to me, it means that the tree sections are distinct- saucer, engineering, and the nacceles. a non-traditonal ship would be the defiant or a steamrunner. In my eyes, this is traditional. No extra pods like the nebula has, ecetera. And keep in mind that the second canon ship had underslung nacceles- the Reliant.

So the naccele configuration is traditonal, in my opinion.

[jared]

How many pylons are there supposed to be?
Is it four seperate ones like on the Galactica or is it one big joining pylon?

[cptjeff]

I never did figure that out- I've recently been thinking two large ones with a gap in between....

[jared]

I just drew a sketch picture of the dorsal view.
If you give me time for photobucket registration to finish then I'll upload it.
It's a bit of a small picture because I had to take it with a phone camera.

[Jamey Gaz]

OK ... this is just me playing around in Photoshop with the Sovereign Class ship ... cutin' and a' slicin' to see how a doubled hull ship with four warp nacelles would look

I'm not suggesting this ... I simply was wanting to see how the lines would look ... so ... I'm just simply sharing

[cptjeff]

I don't like it too much. the double aucer thing is just too much.... Bulk.

[Deleted]

How about a different design altogether?



This is an Eldar Dragonship

For some odd reason it won't give me the picture:|

uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/newimage.asp?Size=A&Img=253729

[cptjeff]

we had decided we wanted soething traditonal earlyer in the tread... and that's not traditional, nor is it visually attarctive to me.

[ajohnson]

I agree.

[jared]

Unfortunately the camera phone made it a bit too small if you want to see it clearly.

[Jamey Gaz]

I suggest the the arrow like Saucer of the Prometheus class ... I like the size of the secondary hull on your drawing Reman ...

[cptjeff]

Accually, I really like it as sckeched... That's quite well done.

and I don't like the arrow tipped ships. Besides, from an engineering point of veiw, they're in-efficant, due to the natural rounding of warp feilds. Voyager works really quite well in that regard, as does the -e, as they have tipped but not pointed saucers, and they are round to accomodate the warp feild

[jared]

So shall I try a pointed saucer with a rounded tip?
It might look a bit too Galactica though.

[Jamey Gaz]

couldn't hurt to at least try it ....

[cptjeff]

If it's not too much trouble I think it would be interesting to see...