Topic: ROGUE SHIPYARDS IS BACK!! Image Heavy!!

[Rogue NineCH]

I am back and I am pleased to announce the commissioning of six new starships!  All six were made by Marauth, and they are breathtaking ships.  I am also pleased to announce that a brand new version of the Rogue Class BC will be released in roughly a week's time.  This includes all four original versions, Marauth's version of the original four and a new variant as well.  When all is said and done there will be at least a dozen different versions to choose from.  Also I will have the renaming kits as well.  I should have that all ready in about a week, hopefully sooner.  There are two teaser pics on my site of the redone BC.  Later this week, I will be releasing another six starships by Marauth.  My ships will come after the release of the Rogue Class, since they are still in the early development stage.  Also this is just a quick website I threw up to get these ships out.

Enough chitchat here are the starships.

First up is the lovely Enterprise Class Starship, the USS Sicilia.  Wait a minute, that's not the Sicilia!  What is that monstrosity?


Enough humor, ok here is the REAL USS Sicilia.








Next up is the USS Lafayette, notice the new drone textures.  Excellent work Marauth!









Then we have the USS Revere a guided weapons destroyer, again with the new drone textures.









A new scout class, the USS Hermes.








The USS Catalunya, a beautiful War Destroyer.








A variant of the Catalunya, the USS Euskal Herria.  Also with the new drone textures.









All ships were done by Marauth, I merely did the break mods and the hardpoints.  Enjoy the new ships, here is my new URL.

Rogue Shipyards

Keep in my that this url will change slightly once I officially launch my site, which will be when the Rogue Class is released.  Then the you can bookmark that url.

[Kaenyne]

Oh Yeah! Now that's what I'm talkin' about! All of them are awesome! I know what I'll be doing tonight! Any change we'll be seeing more Connie varients? U.S.S. America type (as seen in Ships of the Star Fleet Vol. 1)? I've ben hoping somebody would tackle that one.

[Starforce2]

Love that 3 nacelled war destroyer. The rest don't interest me but look nice none the less.

[S33K100]

Thanks for the kind words, ofcourse major credit goes to WZ for giving us the brilliant models to work from and ofcourse to Rogue for being kind enough to add hp and brk mods to them and hosting, BTW Rogue, I noticed that the Revere has the blue bits on the right side nacelle texture, this is my fault as I forgot to recolour that texture before sending so I'll send the correct texture for that with the correct name textures for the Bismarck. For those interested I have a half-finished USS America sitting on my hard drive but I nver bothered to finish adding the details to the saucer and naming it as I figured there'd be no interest, if you want I can finish it up and send it along to Rogue. Oh also Rogue, I forgot to send you the general all purpose readme type thingy to add to the files, damn my laziness, tha'll be with you ASAP. I regret that these use WZ's previous bridge module mesh but I'm reallly just far too lazy to redo all my ships at the moment for such a minor difference, we'll just say they're variants or something.

Starforce2, glad you like the Catalunya, I was going to do an SFB style DW updated to TMP but I can't stand the overabundance of American names in Starfleet and my design only vaguely resembles the Arizona anyway so I named it after the Catalan country, in Catalan. A very nice language and people... Oh and a nice pint of  for the one who can tell me the meaning of the Euskal Herria, it shouldn't be too hard with the resources of the intarweb at your disposals...

Also on the cards from me BTW as Rogue said are some Fed BCs, the Kirov, New Jersey, Bismarck and Shangri-La and also a new variant I made the Mittelmark, an exclusively drone armed BC - the F-BCD. Plus there's an NCL and NCD variant based on WZ's Ptolemy, erm, a Coronado/Oriskany with two mods to represent the F-CVL and F-CVS. (the difference being extra torpedos as I understand from SFC, not and SFB buff here) Finally I'm currently working on an F-CFS, which has 8 torpedo launchers all mounted in left facing arcs, it's a rather interesting ship design that SFB really could have used, and I wanted it to have a nice WZ styled model to represent it.

[Chrystoff]

YEAH!!!!! 

I'm glad your site is back up!

[Rogue NineCH]

Thanks Marauth, I did make some readmes myself, but I'll add the updated ones to the zips. Just keep sending me whatever you got.  Glad everyone likes the ships and I just wanted to say to Wicked Zombie that we do appreciate all the hard work you put into your ships, and it's about time someone started using them in kitbashes.  There's more on the way!

[Rogue NineCH]

Good to hear from ya Chrystoff!  By the way, does anyone happen to have WZ's updated Connie?  If you do then could you email it to me?  Here is my email

rogueninech@aol.com

rogueninech@msn.com

[Klingon Fanatic]

Great news! Welcome back.

KF

[93slowda]

Beautiful Ships!!

[FoaS_XC]

"Sicilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Sicilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home"


-=ducks=-

[wulf111]

Darn you Fury now i have that song stuck in my head GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR   

[S33K100]

ROFL @ Fury, of course we all know that Sicilia is the proper name for Sicily, and that ship name is just a little ego-feeder for myself.

BTW Rogue, I made a mistake when I told you the number of the nacelles on the Sicilia - it's LN68 not 69, my fault and really small detail. Also I looked at the readme in one of the files, they're fine as is but could you add these lines in bold to the end:

This file is only to be hosted at the URL specified above, if you have downloaded this file from a site other than that listed in this readme, please inform me (Marauth) at my email address also specified above, this is not me being mean or spiteful, I just want to keep track of my kitbashes, if you host a site and wish to have my ships up for download at your site please contact me BEFORE putting my files up, I'll almost certainly say yes but I want to be informed first of where my ships are, thankyou for understanding.

Marco Alfano a.k.a. Marauth

I never would have put that a few months ago but around the time when Taldren collapsed I noticed some sites hosting models with no credits or readmes assuming that they were fair game regardless of the modder's wishes, this is just to try and stop these kinds of sites from putting up models without asking permission. It doesn't take much effort to write a couple of sentences in an email asking the author's permission does it?

[Rogue NineCH]

ROFL @ Fury, of course we all know that Sicilia is the proper name for Sicily, and that ship name is just a little ego-feeder for myself.

BTW Rogue, I made a mistake when I told you the number of the nacelles on the Sicilia - it's LN68 not 69, my fault and really small detail. Also I looked at the readme in one of the files, they're fine as is but could you add these lines in bold to the end:

This file is only to be hosted at the URL specified above, if you have downloaded this file from a site other than that listed in this readme, please inform me (Marauth) at my email address also specified above, this is not me being mean or spiteful, I just want to keep track of my kitbashes, if you host a site and wish to have my ships up for download at your site please contact me BEFORE putting my files up, I'll almost certainly say yes but I want to be informed first of where my ships are, thankyou for understanding.

Marco Alfano a.k.a. Marauth

I never would have put that a few months ago but around the time when Taldren collapsed I noticed some sites hosting models with no credits or readmes assuming that they were fair game regardless of the modder's wishes, this is just to try and stop these kinds of sites from putting up models without asking permission. It doesn't take much effort to write a couple of sentences in an email asking the author's permission does it?

Sure, I'll add that in, and the nacelle name I'll change on the next version of the site in a few days.

[USS Mariner]

Incredible work guys. The qaulity of the textures are exquisite, even on the fugly Catalunya and Euskal Herria.

I've actually got an idea for the Coronado/Oriskany. What if, instead of the retextured Enterprise hull on the site, you give it a retextured WZ Bellicose hull? The extention on the underside would look great with the Ark Royal doors on them., and make slightly more sense than cutting into the exsisting hull of the Enterprise...

I'd get the Belli meself but Nightsoft is down....AARRRRRGGH!

[Dawntreader]

Awsome!  I love drone ships.

[Starforce2]

"Sicilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Sicilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home"


-=ducks=-

showing your age?

[FoaS_XC]

"Sicilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Sicilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home"


-=ducks=-

showing your age?

IM 18!!!!!

[S33K100]

Incredible work guys. The qaulity of the textures are exquisite, even on the fugly Catalunya and Euskal Herria.

I've actually got an idea for the Coronado/Oriskany. What if, instead of the retextured Enterprise hull on the site, you give it a retextured WZ Bellicose hull? The extention on the underside would look great with the Ark Royal doors on them., and make slightly more sense than cutting into the exsisting hull of the Enterprise...

I'd get the Belli meself but Nightsoft is down....AARRRRRGGH!

Look at me with a straight face and say there aren't canon ships uglier than the Catalunya, I thought it looked rather nice but I guess I'm biased, what exactly do you think makes it look ugly? Or 'fugly' to use your term, which is a profanity BTW.

The Coronado/Oriskany is an exercise in recreating an existing ship design, not to make a new one, I'll certainly look into making what you describe from a cut down 'cruiser' version of the Bellicose - i.e. no attachments above the saucer, but that would more resemble my Shangri-La which is a Kirov - like the ones you can see on the site, but with the Ark Royal bays on the sides. Anyway I've got the Bellicose but WZ has made it a bit kitbasher-unfriendly, the neck above the saucer is merged with the saucer so if I delete it there'll be a big hole in the top, also a carrier wouldn't really have big guns mounted to the bridge, it's a very purpose built model and would take a bit of replacing components but I'll have a go once I finish reworking it into a Belknap, which is slow going because of other holes in the mesh when I deleted the original neck.

Dawntreader, if you like drone ships what do you think of a drone variant of the Federation? Too much? Too munchkinish?

[Dizzy]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

[FoaS_XC]

-=walks across camera view on the bridge of the Caliburn with a guitar singing "Sicilia" in a starfleet uniform from one Turbolift to the other=-

[Starforce2]

"Sicilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Sicilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home"


-=ducks=-

showing your age?

IM 18!!!!!

LOL, you are younger than me then, 23 here, love that song  myself and the beetles too...anyways...I'll stop  hijacking this thread now...maybe

[Dawntreader]

I would love to see a drone federation class.  I would also like to see a drone frigate.  Maybe Okinawa class.

[Rogue NineCH]

LOL, you are younger than me then, 23 here, love that song myself and the beetles too...anyways...I'll stop hijacking this thread now...maybe

A wise choice youngster, don't make me hurt you.   

[USS Mariner]

Incredible work guys. The qaulity of the textures are exquisite, even on the fugly Catalunya and Euskal Herria.

I've actually got an idea for the Coronado/Oriskany. What if, instead of the retextured Enterprise hull on the site, you give it a retextured WZ Bellicose hull? The extention on the underside would look great with the Ark Royal doors on them., and make slightly more sense than cutting into the exsisting hull of the Enterprise...

I'd get the Belli meself but Nightsoft is down....AARRRRRGGH!

Look at me with a straight face and say there aren't canon ships uglier than the Catalunya, I thought it looked rather nice but I guess I'm biased, what exactly do you think makes it look ugly? Or 'fugly' to use your term, which is a profanity BTW.

The Coronado/Oriskany is an exercise in recreating an existing ship design, not to make a new one, I'll certainly look into making what you describe from a cut down 'cruiser' version of the Bellicose - i.e. no attachments above the saucer, but that would more resemble my Shangri-La which is a Kirov - like the ones you can see on the site, but with the Ark Royal bays on the sides. Anyway I've got the Bellicose but WZ has made it a bit kitbasher-unfriendly, the neck above the saucer is merged with the saucer so if I delete it there'll be a big hole in the top, also a carrier wouldn't really have big guns mounted to the bridge, it's a very purpose built model and would take a bit of replacing components but I'll have a go once I finish reworking it into a Belknap, which is slow going because of other holes in the mesh when I deleted the original neck.

Dawntreader, if you like drone ships what do you think of a drone variant of the Federation? Too much? Too munchkinish?

"There ARE uglier ships than the Cataluyna, just not very many."

How is "fugly" a profanity? It's quite a bit better than something like "f*cking ugly," which I usually see as more seriously than "fugly." I just don't like the lack of any real hull space mainly, not the configuration. (I'm a Tri-nacelle DW junkie. ) If the saucer could get some customization or some extensions I'd use it, but it's really a bit too small (mass-wise) for it's job methinks.

I hope you can use WD's Khambatta. I know your looking into it.

Oh yeah, you didn't seem to mind using "fugly" when describing Wallace's Asia-"De"Fit:

Yuck! No offense Wallace it's a beautiful mesh and textures but I despise and loathe TOS ships being 're-imagined' or whatever into the Enterprise style, the Asia is a beautiful ship and this is just, eh, fugly. Some people like that style as pretty much all the posters in this thread so far but as far as I'm concerned the TOS aesthetic is a much better design overall.

Guess it ain't that profane.

[S33K100]

I swear like a drunken merchant navy sailor, I'm even known to use the so-called 'c' word on occassion, just not in polite company, anyway I just wanted to know why they were 'fugly' and not just moderately ugly fugly is a contraction of f**king ugly, it just doesn't sound as bad. So if I were to add a structure similar to the miranda's extension, or the extension on the SFB Arizona it'd be okay? Well, I thought about using a different saucer with something like that but I decided in the end that if a Saladin has enough space in the saucer then so does this, it's a war destroyer, it has no role except combat so building a secondary hull just so they can fit in all those science labs and botanical gardens would be kind of pointless IMO. Anyway, if something suitable for a secondary hull turns up I'll kitbash it onto the end of the Catalunya.

Oh and the retrofitted Asia is pug-fugly if I'm to be honest I just can't stand TOS ships done in the Enterprise style it just makes me wanna look at the TOS version I love the simple stark lines of TOS ships and the way that the sparse details really catch your eye because there isn't a carpet of hull panels everywhere. I only liked one human ship from Enterprise and that was the Intrepid which was kind of original in layout, though a bit of a Steamrunner rip-off. ending Enterprise rant.

[Rogue NineCH]

She was running as fast as she could through the dark, foul smelling swamplands. She quickly looked over her shoulder as she picked herself up off the cold, slimy mud. It was coming, she could feel it's evil glare piercing her flesh as the monster gazed into her very soul. She ran even faster, tripping over and over only to get up and keep running. It was only a matter of time, until it caught her. That was the story she was told as a child, it's victims never got away, sooner or later it caught them, and what it did then, was too horrifying for any sane person to repeat. Then she saw a glimmer of hope, a light shining in the distance, so faint she almost missed it. "I can make it", she said. Running with all of her might, her heart started to leap with joy as the light drew closer and shined a little brighter with each step she took. Then, just as she thought she was safe, it grabbed her. Fear gripping her soul, she looked into it's eyes, eyes that glowed a blazing red, as if they were windows into hell itself. She tried to scream, but it caught in her throat, not even a whimper came out. She wished that she had listened to the old man who warned her about this swamp, warned her of the terror lurking in the dark. It was too late now, as the creatures bared it's fangs, the poor woman thought back on her life. She thought back to a time when she would play on the swingset in her backyard, she thought back to her 12th birthday, the first time she kissed a boy. None of that mattered now, for she was hopelessly in the clutches of the most horrifying creature, ever to walk this earth. A creature that was called simply "the bump".

I thought I'd have a little fun, after all anyone can type bump.

[markyd]

- crazy post there.....

ships are cool though... except mabey the 1st one(early work?).... the rest though are great!!!!

[FoaS_XC]

She was running as fast as she could through the dark, foul smelling swamplands. She quickly looked over her shoulder as she picked herself up off the cold, slimy mud. It was coming, she could feel it's evil glare piercing her flesh as the monster gazed into her very soul. She ran even faster, tripping over and over only to get up and keep running. It was only a matter of time, until it caught her. That was the story she was told as a child, it's victims never got away, sooner or later it caught them, and what it did then, was too horrifying for any sane person to repeat. Then she saw a glimmer of hope, a light shining in the distance, so faint she almost missed it. "I can make it", she said. Running with all of her might, her heart started to leap with joy as the light drew closer and shined a little brighter with each step she took. Then, just as she thought she was safe, it grabbed her. Fear gripping her soul, she looked into it's eyes, eyes that glowed a blazing red, as if they were windows into hell itself. She tried to scream, but it caught in her throat, not even a whimper came out. She wished that she had listened to the old man who warned her about this swamp, warned her of the terror lurking in the dark. It was too late now, as the creatures bared it's fangs, the poor woman thought back on her life. She thought back to a time when she would play on the swingset in her backyard, she thought back to her 12th birthday, the first time she kissed a boy. None of that mattered now, for she was hopelessly in the clutches of the most horrifying creature, ever to walk this earth. A creature that was called simply "the bump".

I thought I'd have a little fun, after all anyone can type bump.

You were dropped on the head as a child, werent you.

[S33K100]

- crazy post there.....

ships are cool though... except mabey the 1st one(early work?).... the rest though are great!!!!

No actually it's my pride and joy, in case you haven't guessed I'm from Sicily and I wanted that name to be a respectable but at the same time non-uber ship, plus I mainly designed this in the spirit of the variants from SOTSF which is remarkably like current navies, each individual ship is often outfitted with slightly different spec, no two Constitutions should ever be exactly the same, take the USS America from the same SOTSF manuals, or the Tikopai subclass. Plus those nacelles (from the USS Raan - a Belknap class cruiser from SOTSF) looked rather nifty IMO

Any update on the other ships yet Rogue? Oh BTW you should have mail in a couple of minutes when I send it, Bismarck regs with the 'c' included this time And quite a cool post, reminds me of those dodgy old horror B-movies with some really unconvincing slimey lake monster...

[USS Mariner]

- crazy post there.....

ships are cool though... except mabey the 1st one(early work?).... the rest though are great!!!!

No actually it's my pride and joy, in case you haven't guessed I'm from Sicily and I wanted that name to be a respectable but at the same time non-uber ship, plus I mainly designed this in the spirit of the variants from SOTSF which is remarkably like current navies, each individual ship is often outfitted with slightly different spec, no two Constitutions should ever be exactly the same, take the USS America from the same SOTSF manuals, or the Tikopai subclass. Plus those nacelles (from the USS Raan - a Belknap class cruiser from SOTSF) looked rather nifty IMO

Any update on the other ships yet Rogue? Oh BTW you should have mail in a couple of minutes when I send it, Bismarck regs with the 'c' included this time And quite a cool post, reminds me of those dodgy old horror B-movies with some really unconvincing slimey lake monster...

If it isn't too much trouble, could you fix the saucer registries to use the "long" dash in the vessel regsitries? Also, could someone try and see where the Microgamma font is avalible for download?

Here's a great page for proper fonts for Trek ships.

http://members.fortunecity.com/msfm/trekmarkings/trekmarkings.htm

The only thing wrong is that the "Pilot" Enterprise has a slightly different "R."

[Rogue NineCH]

You were dropped on the head as a child, werent you.

Well, if my parents did they refuse to own up to it.  I came up with that a few months back when I couldn't sleep.  You have to admit it's far more creative than typing "bump".

Marauth - I'll have an update ready late tomorrow night.  My brother was in town so I didn't get alot done like I was hoping to do, but I am catching up.  I release your other six ships tomorrow night and the BC's on Friday at the latest.

Mariner -  I don't remember where I got the Microgramma font.  Do a search of the forum archives and I am certain you'll be pointed in the right direction.  That is the first place I always check when I am looking for something.  As for the dash, that is something I'll look into on future ships, but unless I find myself with oodles of time on my hands I doubt I will go back to change the ships already finished.  Too much work for something so small.

[S33K100]

Hmm, the thing is I'm used the font Starfleet Bold Extended rather than Microgramma Bold Extended, and it seems not to have the extended hyphen, besides which it's hardly noticeable except on ships which bear a letter in the registry like the Enterprises, which mine don't.

Thanks for the update info Rogue, your family is of course more important than us, get the stuff up when you have the time to do so.

[markyd]

Font link is very usefull thanks 

[Rogue NineCH]

Just wanted to give you guys a little update.  I have Marauth's seven ships ready to go, I just had to rearrange the hardpoints on a few of them and clean up the mesh on two.  I also took all the snapshots last night.  NOW I just have to convert them to jpeg and upload them along with the files.  The updated site should be available around 9:00pm PST.  The BCs will be released on Saturday, all of them and the renaming kits as well.  Just wanted to keep you guys in the loop.