Topic: A new model Idea based on the Voyager

[OlBuzzard]

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[Captain Pierce]

I would settle for fixing the wimpy engines. and capt pierce's post has one I'd like to see made for sure...needs a better model though, that one is rather bland and low poly (IE knox kitbash style)

It's bashed from Trekmods Homeworld ships, hence the low poly count.

You know, people, only on these boards could somebody post a ship as an example of what not to do, and have people request it. 

As for the idea of new nacelles on the Intrepid class, you might take a look at some of the Voyager concept art at http://www.starfleetcom.net/lcars/fsd/art/voyager1.htm l, most of which feature bigger nacelles that could perhaps be borrowed... 

[ModelsPlease]

I want that!
The mariner is cool looking.

Patience that one is under construction as we speak. It'll be in the MOD coming from OutaLance.
As for the Intrepid.........redesigning the whole ship pretty much constitutes a new ship class,so why not just do that. For what the ship is, the design is fine,granted yes the narcelles are small,the ship is chunky, but if it was thinned and streamlined it would be the Sovie lol. And the Akira, I was always under the impression that ship was designed to replace the Excelsior. Yet the Excelsior seems to be like the D7, a design that never dies.  I'll see what other bashes I can find for the Intrepid class. Believe it or not I think I remember on bashed with a BoP of all things.
-MP

[IndyShark]

If you ask me, a fan design like you described--and like how most of the displayed designs--is as fanboy-ish as the Sovereign-class in my opinion.  I'm sorry but I prefer the Intrepid-class as is.  Your non-suspension of disbelief of the idea that warp engines can be compacted is what's causing you distaste.  It would also seem that disbelief and skeptism is what's helping cause a stereotypical taste of starship design in Trek-fandom world-wide.

The Galaxy-class for its size has small engines... Designs like that, or the Nebula-class, is what TNG designs are all about, even in evolution.  There are designs like the Intrepid-class--or even the popular Defiant-class--that help prove that Starfleet is moving on the right track in starship design, that they care less about big bulky nacelles and popular fanciful looks and more about compacting technology while keeping efficiency.  In my opinion, Intrepid-class warp engines are potentially more-advanced than the Sovereign-class's because of it's lack of need of big nacelles.  It can achieve a Warp 9.9 velocity with those little compact nacelles.  I believe whatever technology we--as in the Human race--produce, it will get smaller and more-efficient over time.  Maybe in the 24th century we would have space ships like the Intrepid-class, with engine travel as efficient, yet compact like the Intrepid-class.  Your disbelief is like disbelieving the existance flat-screen TVs or monitors, even thin notebooks/laptop computers.

Designs like the Sovereign-class are too fanboy-ish, as in bulky, long nacelles and a hot rod-like design with all these torpedo launchers located all over the ship.  I wonder what starfleet engineers were thinking in some designs like the Sovereign-class, or oversizing Pereguine-class ships and kitbashing them with intrepid-class hulls on 'em, or mixing Excelsior-class Carrier variants with constitution-class engines... I never got that.

I have no issue with small warp engines, I think the design looks unbalanced.  I know it is a matter of taste but I don't like the Voyager's lines.  Perhaps it is the oversized saucer, but it just looks odd to me.

In any case, I love seeing different designs. Please keep them coming!

[ModelsPlease]

Try this one...........

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/battlecruiser_phalanx.jpg

[IndyShark]

Wow, that is one cool cruiser! I love it

[Starforce2]

I've tried many times to get epople to make that with no luck. It is an awsome ship.

[ModelsPlease]

Ok tell ya what.if every one really likes the last one...... I'll add it to the list of ships for the MOD providing someone can secure permission from the owner. It does after all have a late TNG feel about it.

-MP

[Chris Johnson]

I'm not exited about the Phalanx-class.  It reminds me of the more-warlike Federation I'm not fond of (As in the stylish Sovereign-class battlecruiser, or Prometheus-class assault cruiser, or even the Defiant-class for example) that turned me away from Star Trek for a while, at least DS9.  Also, the "cannon" on the bottom of the saucer of the Phalanx reminds me of the Phaser cannon of the "All Good Things" [TNG] Enterprise-D refit, as does the fins.  At the very least, get rid of the weapons pod on top.  It seems to make the starship less-streamlined in design as opposed to the canonical evolution in starship design.

So I'm so-so in opinion of this fan design... But it's up to most other people who actually like the design, I feel my opinion a minority, although that doesn't trouble me. *shrug* I think it's actually good for the community to at least have some different opinions on designs for brainstorming.

[ModelsPlease]

Ok Chris how about these 2 ?





-MP

[CaptainTombs]

Try this one...........

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/battlecruiser_phalanx.jpg

anyone know where i could dl this not for sfc i mean for any basic 3d program

[Sapharite]

This one definately "rocks" Man:

   

This one isn't so bad but also looks "fantastic":

 

Ouch my stomach  I'm gonna regret if I will see those ships again

[CaptainTombs]

there is no way that last ship is anaomically correct the dimensions are way off