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ajaxtorbin — Storm Class Progression
Published: 2014-02-19 21:06:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1007; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 30
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I was going though my things an found a lot of old pencil drawing and sketches of my early starship designs. Among them I spotted my USS Storm versions, though originally it was the USS Hornet, named for the US aircraft carrier of WWII fame.I've been working on the Storm in various ways for more than ten years, I've always been a trekie and started drawing my own trek-ships for quite a while. I started from noticing that as peaceful at startfleet was they were also the militant force backing the Federation and it struck me as odd that they would not have a ship designed specifically for war. If for no other reason than to be prepared.
From the Top moving down:
Image one. The first Storm (nee Hornet) class (which I have done a brief version of) was only similar in length to late versions and the version you see is copied from a sketch on graph paper. It was originally conceived as a smaller ship with a heavy shuttle compliment and lot of storage and fabrication space.
Image two. Many sketches, a series and several movies later I was taken with the new and slightly more compact and dark look of starfleet ships. I went longer and narrower, this ship is actually longer than a Sovereign class. A basic side outline and early nacelle was part of the same file. This version was to be equipped with 4 warp nacelles and two matching M/ATM cores to provide power to two sections. Then the Voyager episode came out featuring the USS Prometheus; and they basically had done the same thing.
Image three. Now you see the armored monstrosity that is present Storm class emerging. This image was to be the background layer I was going to affix details to. I added a bunch of windows to this one to I could see the basic layout of how everything fit together. The image though is greatly undersized and had been exiled to a disk back-up when my first computer died. This version of the ship did not separate.
Image four. My first good result with most layering done. It was a basic wire-frame copy of the one above it. I decided that separation capability, though odd looking with a ship of this configuration did add something useful so added it back.
Image five. After fiddling with clay and 3D I found that there was no way a set of smaller warp nacelles could fit directly behind the main pair without radically changing the the shape of hull. Added to that I had difficulty with the how the side of the ship flowed from the forward section into the rear with the nacelles and their curving armor. The fix was to make the secondary nacelles incorporated as part of the upper section (alpha hull) superstructure. When the ship separates the alpha hull retains the upper nacelle armor and the smaller secondary nacelles. It was a slight fix and now one can see the secondary nacelles poking out from behind the armor. Also, I was never quite satisfied with the huge bulb of the bussard housings, so I've changed how that end of the nacelles are configured as well, giving them a far more protected look by placing them on the inside of the nacelle instead of on the outside where they are more commonly found. Because they are magnetic in basis they would theoretically work the same; indeed, with all four of them angle the way they are interstellar matter should funnel right down the corridor between the inner and outer nacelles.
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