Topic: U.S.S. Torishima and U.S.S. Kirishima - Okinawa Class Frigates (Read 6373 times)

WickedZombie45 · « **on:** June 13, 2004, 01:45:44 am »

Just released and the paint's not even dry yet:

yeaterk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2004, 01:49:52 am »

nice!!!!

Khalee · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2004, 01:50:44 am »

Cool but wheres the Shuttle bay?

WickedZombie45 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2004, 01:58:16 am »

Take a close look at the bottom of the hull....

Dizzy · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2004, 02:02:25 am »

Nice clean lines... Very pretty.

Been looking for a model like this...

Hey, I wonder, did you use a texture is stretched across the front of the aft hull above the photon launchers? That'd be the largest area that a shuttlebay could fit in...

Unless you have a carrier model... and put 2x doors on either side of the upper aft hull.

Think I'll try that.

As the std F-ff, very cool.

nx_adam_1701 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2004, 02:02:37 am »

As always excellent work, Do I forsee a Miranda coming are way lol, pretty soon i hope

adam out

Dizzy · « **Reply #6 on:** June 13, 2004, 02:06:06 am »

AHHH! Very sneaky, WZ.

And nicely done. 1st glance you never see it there... Perfect place to put it too...

That model... it all just works good. I've always liked it. And this time it's been done right. gj WZ.

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #7 on:** June 13, 2004, 02:15:15 am »

Very nice. I've never been able to find a TMP frigate to replace the stocker that I was happy with, until now. Thank you very much.

Desty_Nova · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2004, 04:29:24 am »

Excellent model. I've never understood how that thing is a frigate though, seeing how it appears to have much greater mass than the Fed CA. Oh well.

Anyway, nice job.

Dizzy · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2004, 04:56:08 am »

Ummm what DN said. The scale... as an SFB frig its should be much smaller... as the FASA TMP frig, yeah, I can see it being that big...

But all those aside, in SFC, I think it should be 3/5ths the size of the F-CA.

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2004, 05:42:25 am »

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Ummm what DN said. The scale... as an SFB frig its should be much smaller... as the FASA TMP frig, yeah, I can see it being that big...

But all those aside, in SFC, I think it should be 3/5ths the size of the F-CA.

Yeah, well said regarding FASA Trek Frigates. Which is why myself and others think the Chandley Class ***Cough* ** "Heavy Frigate" should really be a HEAVY CRUISER....

Now, anybody trying to make a KA to SFC3 conversion project will have to make a tough choice about the Okinawa, any chance you can include an alternate size mod file?

Nice job WZ45! Thanks for sharing this. Excellent job!

KF

Bernard Guignard · « **Reply #11 on:** June 13, 2004, 06:38:05 am »

HI WZ
Fantastic work as usual

If I can make a suggestion regarding an SFB version Scale down the ship but Scale up the Bridge section also make the Leading edge windows larger so it represents one deck in height. I also like it in the current scale because it would make a great looking battle cruiser or heavy cruise variant say you want a drone cruiser to look different from your standard heavy cruiser well heres a nice case.

DonKarnage · « **Reply #12 on:** June 13, 2004, 07:11:00 am »

i got a lot of that class from eras of war, but its a cool ship, also is it supose to be smaller that a constitution?

olbuzzard · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2004, 07:54:47 am »

Excellent job WZ ... you took a ship that many dont care too much for .. and made it look VERY nice. Textures are some of the best I've seen on this model !

Excellent !!

Rogue · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2004, 10:35:56 am »

Just wanted to offer a thank you for the new Federation frigate. One would be hard pressed to do better than this. There seems to be a question here about the relative size of it but in the mean time it is easy enough to take advantage of OP's scaling capabilities.

Thanks dead man... really nice looking model there.

Marauth · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2004, 11:51:41 am »

It's a very cool design and a very cool update Mr. WZ. The scaling issue comes from the stock version of the Okinawa using a badly scaled saucer and bridge from the Enterprise class.

I would agree with Bernard on this one about scaling, to make a frigate sized version just alter the window size and scale the entire thing down aside from the bridge and it'll be in scale with the Enterprise but frigate sized. I myself think the ship looks too good to be a measly frigate cannon-fodder and will use it as CL or CA

WickedZombie45 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 13, 2004, 02:50:20 pm »

Slackers change the scale, modders change the model:

You guys complain too much anyway. Luckily, I had the foresight to make 2 versions

Marauth · « **Reply #17 on:** June 13, 2004, 03:38:16 pm »

ROFL

Who you callin a slacker LOL. The Kirishima looks fantastic too, where'd you get the names BTW? Sorry if I sound a bit ignorant but I'm rather interested, are they Japanese islands like Okinawa?

Dizzy · « **Reply #18 on:** June 13, 2004, 03:43:01 pm »

You are no slacker WZ.

WickedZombie45 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 13, 2004, 03:50:21 pm »

They're from the Ryukyu Island chain of around 50 islands (not all habitable), where Okinawa is the largest in the group. At least they're supposed to be anyway, Japanese names are a tricky lot.

starforce2 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2004, 09:35:59 pm »

cool. I've always liked this class but all the ones I've seen are sh*t.

Kaenyne · « **Reply #21 on:** June 14, 2004, 08:17:07 am »

Hey, these are VERY cool, and fill out the Feddie shiplist quite nicely.

ChrisJohnson · « **Reply #22 on:** June 14, 2004, 10:06:20 am »

...Did I mention the Okinawa-class is one of my favorite Klingon Academy-esque class of Starships? And that they're only 183m in length? (I already had the KA Manual near me incase I needed it.

)

All in all, small-ship wise, the Okinawa-class is my favorite starship of all time, biased of the islands for living there before or not (and I had lived there before... I'm shamelessly telling everyone this again incase anyone forgot.

). I really love how you designed them for SFC, WZ, even if they are too big.

Very good work! I'll not hesitate to use these.

WickedZombie45 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:32:13 pm »

Ah, Chris, I think you missed the size chart for the Kirishima posted above - it's half the size of the big version, making it fairly close to the KA scale. The other is scaled to the Constitution parts it's built from.

Kaenyne · « **Reply #24 on:** June 14, 2004, 12:36:11 pm »

So what's next? Something BIIIIIIIIG I hope!

Kaenyne · « **Reply #27 on:** June 14, 2004, 02:27:15 pm »

I think Zombie has more in the works than we all realize. I suggest we sit back, be patient, and wait for the wonders to flow.

Hollis_J_Wood · « **Reply #28 on:** June 14, 2004, 06:27:19 pm »

MAN that is just too frigate great !!!

Silverstone · « **Reply #30 on:** June 18, 2004, 09:21:25 pm »

It's nice to see the KA/SFC series ships being done with greater detail. The Andromedans are also a great touch, although I'm still thinking on how I want to arm the buggers.

I've said it bunches of times already, but I hope you'll do the Excelsior. Except for Moonraker's, everyone else's more recent versions are either SFC3 or BC only. That, and I'm shipping out soon, so I'd love to be spoiled by that one before I go off to face my destiny of bulletcatching on behalf of our divided government.

(In the Air Force? Riiiight... )

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