I'm liking it more now. I wasn't a fan of those nacelles till that change..

Yeah definitely better now. I like the grooves along the inner edge that follow on from the front.

I was just looking at the shuttle bay/hangar bay. Are you planning on having a door right at the front and leaving the landing strip open or having an entire sliding roof that opens??? Maybe an inner door and a main outer roof/door. The shuttle is moved in to position, the inner door is closed and the outer door/roof is opened. That way something larger like a Runabout or Captains Yacht could be stored there even though the ship is relatively small.

Another thing that i noticed is rear torpedo launchers, does it have any??? Maybe rear firing from that torpedo launcher up top.

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Hmm , Have you considered having the top centre pylon going further forwards and linking up with the structure under the bridge ?
Could be officers quarters with the nice views that they would give

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And how do the vesta variants do shuttles? Seems like a force field holds everything in place....

How about this Macha?
(I'm probably not going to go with blue busards but...)


Going to sleep, tomorrow, my greebling shall blot out the sun.

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Yeah , that's what I meant , so that there isn't a massive gap between the pylon and the bridge section

As for the vesta , only a single version of it has the force field

On some fan versions of the design , there are actually two shuttle bays , one for standard shuttles , and a second for larger craft ( a feature that STO slighly hints at , as thats where the pets lift off from. Think DS9 runabout pad . This isn't on the LCAR's version though so it probably isn't canon, but maybe an idea to use ? )

http://www.foundation3d.com/forums/show ... stcount=16

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That looks awesome. I wish i had your skills.

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I didn't even have my skills a week ago. Working 12-20 hours a day on something for several days straight and you'll learn a lot in a hurry. It also helps to have a few friends on skype, know how to use google and have a great fleet to bounce things around with!




Now, back to work...

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Wow, great work so far. It's funny, for as good as I am at illustrating people, mechanical drawings elude me sorely. I'd like to pick your brain about mesh rendering sometime though ^.^;;

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You should definitely spam STO forums with this one, maybe get the attention of art department over there.. >.>
I would so fly this ship, it looks amazing thus far; what do you plan for the material.. ooh, I can't wait for the finished product..

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Heh, I'm still wondering how I'm going to do all the windows let alone the texturing.
Going to eat then take a nap, 2 more days left! Still so much more to do.

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