Topic: U.S.S. Cleopatra - Nitocris Class Light Cruiser

[OlBuzzard]

Third, Hey Old Buzzard... Are you picking on us SFBers again?  Damned Trekker. 

Picking on "SFB'ers ....  Nah !!  Not really !!

"Trekker" ...  who me ???  Hmmm   let's see ..  been around since the first release of  "The Menagerie" ....

hehehehe  ..   guilty as charged !

 

[USS Mariner]

lol..pre-tos going to tmp...have we forgotten the olympic? Gal-x era medaical vessel. Anyways, Woulda prefered strait angled pylons rather than curved ones but the ship looks great anyways.

Yeah, nice design but the curvy pylons don't look right. Just doesn't bode with my idea of TMP lineage well.

However, the only thin in this design I'd change is the poly count of the sphere. It should have more vertical stacks and sides, to make it smoother, but I'll just have to live with it seeing as your never going to change it.

It is a good model regardless. Finally we get to see what the USS Eagle might've looked like in TUC.

[Wicked Zombie]

Regarding the windows, I did notice the oddness of them but I intentionally left them as they were. There's an old artist's trick: Leave something blatantly wrong so onlookers will be too busy pointing it out to notice the other stuff you screwed up.

Besides, if you don't ruffle a few feathers you didn't do it right.

Somehow I'm not surprised by the polygon-sphere remark - if I churn out a 9000 polygon super smooth ship, people gripe because it lags. If I shave off too much, other people gripe for it not being detailed enough. It's all because I'm dead, isn't it? This damned anti-Deadite sentiment that's floating around is appalling. We're people too, even if we are living impaired.

That was sarcasm, btw, if anyone missed it...

[OlBuzzard]

Regarding the windows, I did notice the oddness of them but I intentionally left them as they were. There's an old artist's trick: Leave something blatantly wrong so onlookers will be too busy pointing it out to notice the other stuff you screwed up.

hehehe   you sly dog !!!

you realize of course this will drive a few people absolutely nuts trying to find "the other mistakes" !!

 

[J. Carney]

I like it WZ, it's an excelent design progression of the Daedalus.

There would be a great reason for the spherical primary hull being used- it makes the ship a smaller target overall without reducing internal volume. The primary hull can have the volume of a saucer several times the diameter, since it has more decks. That means more storage space, more room for weapons, ect.

I wouldn't see it as a medical ship at all- maybe something like a long-rage patrol ship, like a frigate from the age of sail.

[Age]

Regarding the windows, I did notice the oddness of them but I intentionally left them as they were. There's an old artist's trick: Leave something blatantly wrong so onlookers will be too busy pointing it out to notice the other stuff you screwed up.

Besides, if you don't ruffle a few feathers you didn't do it right.

Somehow I'm not surprised by the polygon-sphere remark - if I churn out a 9000 polygon super smooth ship, people gripe because it lags. If I shave off too much, other people gripe for it not being detailed enough. It's all because I'm dead, isn't it? This damned anti-Deadite sentiment that's floating around is appalling. We're people too, even if we are living impaired.

That was sarcasm, btw, if anyone missed it...

I know this a little OT but that is a nice sig you have and web site Wicked Zombie.That a great looking model for the old Daedlas class of ships.

[S33K100]

This actually really does look more like the Archon than the Daedalus, the sphere-mounted deflector, the sphere-mounted impulse engines, (both were on the secondary on the Daedalus and the primary on the Archon) the dorsal connector sitting above the top of the engineering hull (the 'neck' of the Archon protrudes from the top of the sec-hull) and the nacelles being highly similar to those of the connie (the Daedalus nacelles were in real life - for the studio model, actually made from old Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile model kits with the familiar spiked bussards attached to the top) In any case it is a very nice design WZ, I liked it so much I just spent a while enlarging the windows on the sec-hull (only by copy-pasting the same two window shapes from the primary hull over and over). Nice work.

P.S. Akiraprise is not just to do with the general shape, it's the little details that were identical that got the phrase coined, see these pics for what I mean: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/enterpriselarge-comments.jpg and http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/akira-vs-akiraprise.jpg, I dunno why people even bother to deny it. Not saying it's a bad design, just a rather lazy decision on the part of Berman (apparently Doug Drexler, the guy who designed it was forced to pretty much keep all the details from the Akira intact by B&B as part of their crazy fan-service idea). The ENT-Era S.S. Intrepid is a much better design for a hero ship anyway.

[Sandman3D]

It's all because I'm dead, isn't it? This damned anti-Deadite sentiment that's floating around is appalling. We're people too, even if we are living impaired.

Yes, you dang deaders are taking all the good jobs....don't need sleep, don't need a lunch break...of course, the smell is putrid, but the big bosses don't have to work in the same building as you....

[Lord Schtupp]

Nice work WZ

[Grim Reaper]

Great ship Wz. Shows that an "old" design can be cool as well.

It's all because I'm dead, isn't it? This damned anti-Deadite sentiment that's floating around is appalling. We're people too, even if we are living impaired.

Yes, you dang deaders are taking all the good jobs....don't need sleep, don't need a lunch break...of course, the smell is putrid, but the big bosses don't have to work in the same building as you....

Depending on your point of view if the Grim Reaper is dead or not (or just immortal) i want to comment on this: I Do Not Stink

(BTW j/k)

[darkthunder]

Wow this ship looks cool... any updates on when it will be released?

[Wicked Zombie]

It's been released since this thread was started. I don't post about a ship unless it's online.