Topic: A Little OT-- It's interesting how Feds are taking a back seat lately...

[Desty_Nova]

When I first started posting on these boards, I wanted to get alot more 'alien' ships out there, because there are so many Federation ships around. And it seemed like 4 out of every 5 new models posted was a Fed of some kind. Don't get me wrong, I love the Feds as much as anyone here, but I thought it would be nice to have some more variety. But now, with all this talk of Andromedans, Tholians, Seltorians, and others, there's been a big rennaisance of alien vessels being made on these boards. I think it's great, and I want to thank everyone who's made an effort to do contribute!

[WickedZombie45]

Feds don't exactly offer a big challenge. Sure the TNG designs are unique but for most, they're too time consuming/complex for someone who doesn't want to spend weeks of free time on a single ship. All the other Starfleet ships have either been done to death or just aren't appealing for whatever reasons. Klingons, Roms, Andros, etc. have a particular look to 'em that usually give the right balance of being interesting/fun to create and also giving someone an outlet for learning and developing their skills. Not to mention allowing for more creativity, especially with the Roms and Andros that have very little to no references.

Actually, I just think everyone has gotten sick of blowing up the same old ships with their shiny new Fed CA and want something new to point their photons at...

[Klingon Fanatic]

Its about time really, not much point in having sexy uber cool Federation ships without equally cool adversaries to play against.

Now if the Romulans get a Melak...

Best wishes to everyone contribuitng to our growing collection of non-Fed ships.

Qapla!

KF

[Azel]

Well I just make em
ship, monster...organic or not...its all the same to me
   

[Sbloyd]

I've always been averse to doing Feds myself, given that, well, EVERYONE does Feds...  

[NannerSlug]

hey, hey.. i love those sexy fed ships.

seriously, i think what you are seeing is people getting tired of doing fed ship after ship and instead are working on new and cool designs. i love seeing the monsters. heh.

[anduril]

What is the Melak?

[Captain Ron]

No I have been releasing a steady diet of them latily so they are still about.

I also have 2 romulans to finish and some mirrored ships on that should be done too list. Then I need to work out how to retexutre one of moons kligon K'tinas becuase 30 textures is too many.

[Reverend]

Thanks for this post- great idea- I have a lot of fun playing Fed, naturally....

but playing alien ships is always a little exciting to me- kind of gets the imagination going a little extra...


Yes, Klingon Fanatic, what is a Melak? I know you are the right one ot ask-------  

[DarkMatrix]

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What is the Melak?  

i`m sure KF will be happy to fill you in what a melak is

DM

[Smiley]

I'm still making Feds! Only TNG ones though, and original designs at that - thanks to Azel

[Klingon Fanatic]

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What is the Melak?  

i`m sure KF will be happy to fill you in what a melak is

DM  

I was thinking Anduril, the master model maker that he is, was "yanking my chain", lol.

I'm pretty sure he knows what the Romulan Melak is and it's NOT the FASA Romulan V-4.

Just in case he wants more information:

http://dynamic3.gamespy.com/~bridgecommander/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=12478

I was  respectfully,  trying not to 'bug' Anduril about the Melak or the V-4 because, if memory serves, he has the second version of the TNG/post TNG Romulan Kerchan somewhere on his "to do list".

Qapla!

KF

[starforce2]

I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.

[Desty_Nova]

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I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.  

Seriously dude...I did one too!

[Smiley]

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I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.  

LOL - Not quite Starforce, I for one haven't, and I don't have any intention of making one either

[starforce2]

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I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.  

LOL - Not quite Starforce, I for one haven't, and I don't have any intention of making one either

 

and so starts the anti-constitution movement

[Smiley]

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I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.  

LOL - Not quite Starforce, I for one haven't, and I don't have any intention of making one either

 

and so starts the anti-constitution movement  

ROFLMAO!

[Core]

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I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.  

LOL - Not quite Starforce, I for one haven't, and I don't have any intention of making one either

 

and so starts the anti-constitution movement  

ROFLMAO!  

I'm with you

btw I think the tholis are beeing done to deth laitly
and if some one whants new configs for the feds just give a yell I'm produsing them like borg reproduse  

[Captain Ron]

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I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.  

I have never made a model (removed polies here and there yes, but never made one) I only retexture the ones out there

[atheorhaven]

Heheh.. I'm working on them all right now.  

Looking at my project list on my wall right now, I still have to complete:

1) TOS Excelsior
2) Excellentia
3) New Orleans
4) Freedom
5) Tholian Web
6) Planet textures
11) Weapons textures
12) Mackie conversions (going to try and get what he has out across)
13) Starbug/Red Dwarf (Starbug is complete more or less, but is waiting for me to figure out the smoothing problem on RD)
14) U.S.S. Defiant from "The Tholian Web" (99% complete, just text files for the SFC3 version to finish)
18) Nanner's rescale project (Feddie's, Klingons, Romulans, and lots of other races here including Borg).

So that's 5 Feddies in seperate projects, and 4 other race/other object projects, and then the consolidated projects of Nanner and Mackie to complete before I get my month off.  

[Mackie]

ive been here rather long .. and i quite dont remember when was the last time of such a big alien ship outburst!  

[Core]

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ive been here rather long .. and i quite dont remember when was the last time of such a big alien ship outburst!    

whell your in one now

[Kaenyne]

I'm a firm believer in IDIC, so the more the merrier I say!

Anytime someone wants to take time out of their lives to make a Fed, Rom, Klink, Tholian, Gorn, Hydran, Starblazers, Star Wars, or ANY cool ship, I love it!

It's a cool time to be a SFC player!

[Core]

yes but the tholians wher geting an of alot of atention abult a munth ago i think ikove when ther is diversaty in all things but that was a bit much IMO whell i think things are back to normal (what ever that means)

[olbuzzard]

Olbuzzard looks at redesign of Fed BB...  
 

hmmm  ......probably just as well to leave the BB from Taldren right where it's at.  Wads up idea ....  shoots at basket across room.....   oh yeah !!    3 points from down town !!!

   

[Soreyes]

Since I could not make a Model to save my life. I enjoy coming here and seeing what is new.  Now where are all the Kitty Ships?

[Primus2003]

     

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    I always found it rather funny that everyone and their grandmother in this palce has done atleast 1 constitution. There must be enough of them by now to overrun 2 quandrents. Anywas, we need more romulans. Hopefully with jeffwallace back in the picture, we'll get some interesting stuff.



LOL - Not quite Starforce, I for one haven't, and I don't have any intention of making one either


 

I have not made a Constitution either.  Admittedly I would not mind trying, I grew up with the movie (TMP) eraso I am always on the prowl for those.  I used to build  models (kits) when I had more time (To say nothing of space,  I now live in a small 1 bedroom with my wife)) when I was younger.  Though one day, I would like to return to it and  as an extension, I would like to try but have no real idea how to begin.  

[Primus2003]

 

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 Olbuzzard looks at redesign of Fed BB...


hmmm ......probably just as well to leave the BB from Taldren right where it's at. Wads up idea .... shoots at basket across room..... oh yeah !! 3 points from down town !!!
 

What redesign are you referring to Oldbuzzard?  There have been a few so I was curious. as it never hurts to look.

[Primus2003]

 

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  Since I could not make a Model to save my life. I enjoy coming here and seeing what is new. Now where are all the Kitty Ships?  

Well said LOL,  unfortunatly same with me and the same reasons I visit this particular part of the board quite often  too

[olbuzzard]

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hmmm ......probably just as well to leave the BB from Taldren right where it's at. Wads up idea .... shoots at basket across room..... oh yeah !! 3 points from down town !!!
 

What redesign are you referring to Oldbuzzard?  There have been a few so I was curious. as it never hurts to look.  

hmmmm ..  let me dig through the arcives.  my work is still primarily cut and paste stuff.  But ...  frankly I was a little disapointed in the initial BB in SFC-2  OP ......   soooooo  we kinda did a cut and past thing and created a new one.   (ok I admit I also used a modified version of my origonal designed  "dual  nacelle " concept).  At any rate if you are still interested in taking a peek ...  ( shhhhh  ...  I'll slip it in here this evening for ya to review)  

[Kreeargh]

Feds huh       I have about 40 fed tmp models in total that i need to get done most for Our Altmod , some to release when i get time to finish them,  Unknown warrior will also have a few carriers online soon i belive.   click  here  for "some"  wip pics .      

[olbuzzard]

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hmmm ......probably just as well to leave the BB from Taldren right where it's at. Wads up idea .... shoots at basket across room..... oh yeah !! 3 points from down town !!!
 

What redesign are you referring to Oldbuzzard?  There have been a few so I was curious. as it never hurts to look.  

hmmmm ..  let me dig through the arcives.  my work is still primarily cut and paste stuff.  But ...  frankly I was a little disapointed in the initial BB in SFC-2  OP ......   soooooo  we kinda did a cut and past thing and created a new one.   (ok I admit I also used a modified version of my origonal designed  "dual  nacelle " concept).  At any rate if you are still interested in taking a peek ...  ( shhhhh  ...  I'll slip it in here this evening for ya to review)  

.....  shhhh  ( keep this one under your hat !!  ) ....  just my idea of a BB compared to the BB used in OP.  ( I not so sure it's a great improvement..... )    but this is where I started playing with Photoshop a few months ago.    It should be noted that we have since swaped out the nacelles for the contempory TNG design ( with my own personal twist for the dual nacelle concpet).  The TNG shells came off of ships used in Nanners new mod.  From there we just did the ol' cut and paste thing.

If it is of any use to ya ...  feel free to use.

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Hey Olbuzzard
       nice design  

[olbuzzard]

Thanks man  ...  that seems to be one good trait of the guys here in the model forum ...  a lot of encouragement ...  that helps those of us who have so much yet to learn to want to keep plugging away until we catch on.  That means a lot.  One of these days we'll  snag on to something that will strike a nerve.  Who knows maybe someone will eventually catch on to what we attempting to do with the "Dual Nacelle" idea.  Things have been a bit slow here at home for us as far as the computer modeling goes ( too many hours at our RL  job ..  like an average of 55 + hours a week).  But one day I hope to get that Milk Shape program.  We tried the "demo".  It was great...  .  

Again, thanks for the kind words of encouragement.