A ship that I created[Semi Safe for 56K]

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-12-01 11:50pm

This is concept art that I made, it is a Type 3 battleship, arount 45 meters high, meant to carry heavy transports and tanks onto hostile planets

It has its top missle batteries, its main forward charged particle cannon for anti ship warfare.. and it is powerd by 4 small ion engines with repulsors for athmosperic travel

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2006-12-02 08:20am

Sketchup? Not bad, I'd add colors to the areas you want seperated by lines (like the top grill) then select it all and soften it to pop the lines out. You could also make textures for the area like the grill and put that there.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2006-12-02 09:07am

you can remove a lot of those unwanted lines. It'll really clean up the model.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2006-12-02 09:19am

It looks very Homeworldian

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2006-12-02 09:40am

Dartzap wrote:It looks very Homeworldian

I think it look's more like the shuttle from EV:Nova.

Comando293 · Post by **Comando293** » 2006-12-03 06:20pm

It looks cool. There are some extra looking lines. I can't tell if they are being used somehow or not.

Assuming you used Sketchup, how did you post the images?

phred · Post by **phred** » 2006-12-03 07:59pm

kewl ship. Maybe silly question, whats with the wings? they look too small for any use in an atmosphere and would pretty much be useless in space

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-12-03 08:31pm

phred wrote:kewl ship. Maybe silly question, whats with the wings? they look too small for any use in an atmosphere and would pretty much be useless in space

Maybe they're for putting reaction thrusters or sensor/comm doohickeys on.

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-12-03 08:49pm

I was not sure to make them Rentery wings, like the classic Gundam verseships, but I liked tem, on the second try I shall fix that..

Re: Comando293,

In skechup there is an export image feature, that can be used to export PNGs and my photobucket is hosting the images

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-12-03 09:03pm

Redleader34 wrote:Rentery wings

You really have to stop typoing the most important word in your posts.

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2006-12-03 09:09pm

Will this have external weapons?

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-12-03 09:51pm

No, its more like the Promethus from stargate, it has missle based attaks, but it is depenant on its fighter escorts to get it through tough planet defenses... Fighters will be my next project.

phred · Post by **phred** » 2006-12-04 08:24am

I suppose sensor/comm/ECM might werk, or some sort of mount for missile sytems etc like on attack choppers, but they really are too small for anything but the most basic atmospheric maneuvering

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-12-04 01:44pm

One question though, if my ship as one forward focal weapon, should I mod it to have more external missle pods?

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2006-12-04 03:42pm

Redleader34 wrote:One question though, if my ship as one forward focal weapon, should I mod it to have more external missle pods?

Assuming you mean the ship is built around one main forward-firing gun, you should definitely invest in any/all of
A) More hardpoints for mounting more guns. "And the Gunner spake, saying: Thou shalt watch thy six, lest thou get shot in thy arse because thou couldst not cover thy arse."
B) More/bigger thrusters to turn the ship. "And the Helmsman didst spake, saying: Thou art not fighting in atmosphere, but thou art fighting in space, and in space thou canst travel forwards whilest thou art shooting backwards."
C) Superior sensors so you can see and hit long-range targets. "And the Scanner spake, saying: Thou art fighting in space, where thou canst see objects millions of klicks away, yea, and thou canst shoot targets so far, with minor losses in accuracy."
D) All of the above. "And the Captain spake, saying: Remember redundancy. If thou hast multiple resources at thy disposal, thou art more likely to survive the loss of any single resource."

For the specific case of an atmo/space fighter, you'd probably do best to have more weapons and better thrusters, so you can shoot in all directions and run away if the fight goes against you.

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-12-31 07:37pm

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-12-31 07:46pm

VAST improvement even with the blatant asymmetry.

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2007-01-02 03:19pm

I was just thnking about how to improve, when I decided to follow darthbob88's sugestions to a T

The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2007-01-03 11:56am

very nice, I agree with Einhander, the improvements-
uh, improve it

I might ask, (maybe I missed it) where are the hangers? also, what are it's crew capacitys, does it have shields...

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2007-01-03 12:54pm

Its more of an assualt transpor. It has sheilds, powerd by its twin generators on top. It has acrew of 20 decited operators, and 200-400 marines, and it carries about 20-30 M1-A1 Abrams sizend anks. It is meant to capture small ringworlds, Larger O'Neil style stations, and as a secondary invasion craft, after a Planet's Main defense station(Think MAC guns from halo) are down. Its mostl automated, since it serves as a crew carrier. Its a ship from a sci-fi universe I was working on, and its one of Earth's most common sips, since we are sort of the Austrila of the Galaxy. Small navy/army, but our wquipement is quality made.