Here is a new version of the Athena I made for a project. It's the Athena, only with a little bit more firepower. All done now. Now I'll just have to make a lowpoly version for the project.
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Here is that new design I thought I was going to make, and... I did! Here is is finished. The J-405x "Ironheart"
Length: 170 m Crew: 20 Armament: 2 heavy turrets, 12 front machine guns, 6 auto-reloading missile tubes The ship is now finished. I have a feeling I will be receiving a new request for a ship design very soon. I'm curious how that will turn out.
A while back me and a Steam friend got the idea for me to make spaceship designs for members of this little gaming clan we had. Over the past few months a couple of members have given me short instructions on what they liked and I have built a spaceship for them based on those instructions. This has kept me modeling and given my spaceship designs a certain variety. Now there are two more ships I can add to the list. One ship that is for now still nameless and the Bronco. The Bronco is still a Work In Progress however the other ship is as good as finished (apart from the name). And then there is the Bronco, a ship that in the beginning looked like it was going to fail in design quite horribly. I drew at least three different concepts which were all... well, let's mediocre would be a compliment in this case. However, shortly after, I had a new flash of inspiration and this design was born: Still a work in progress but close to being finished. The texture might get some more grittiness, the person I made it for likes things that way. I personally couldn't see why someone would purposefully want to add rust to a spaceship especially considering future spaceships would most likely be made out of a carbon/ceramics hybrid material rather than plain metal... but hey, what do I know.
That's it for this blog, have a nice day! Did you notice something new when visiting my website? Well, that is, if you're one of the 2 or 3 regular visitors of my site. No? well that's thanks to Weebly who kindly redirects everyone trying to visit my old page to my new and upgraded domain! Yes, that's right. I'm now no longer a sub-domain of Weebly.com but a unique website amongst millions of other sites on the internet. Other than that, I've also been working on another model. The HMCS Attaque for Kirby, another Steam friend.
The ESAD M60 Asteroid Class Explorer
-Length: 10.1m -Type: VTOL, Deep Space Exploration -Crew: Pilot, Co-Pilot -Armament: 4 Rockets, Forward Cannons The ESAD M60 A.C.E is a deep space exploration craft designed for staying in space for weeks or even months. It got its name from the M40 X A.C.E, the first Asteroid Class Explorer. Though a little outdated, these spacecraft still are in use by the ESAD scientific research department. So I was thinking today about ships and flying and energies and stuff. I came to start thinking about how large ships would land. The standard scifi magic hovering was obviously something I wouldn't do since that wouldn't be the kind of realism I'm looking for.
My original reason for starting to think about how ships would stay in the air came from me watching Battlestar Galactica. I was looking at the Raptors and I was wondering how the hell those un-aerodynamic things could stay in the air. It would obviously take a lot of thrust and energy to keep it in the air. To cut a long story short, me thinking of one thing lead to me thinking of another and before long I was thinking about my Space 3000 universe which is where these scifi-ish thoughts usually take me. So how would a ship land? Well the smaller ships are usually VTOL with thrusters on the bottom of the ship similar to the BSG Raptors (only with a more aerodynamic design). However the larger ships, and I'm talking the ships that are over half a kilometer long (like the Aloadae II I poster earlier), they would simply use up way to much energy trying to land in the VTOL kind of way. Landing gears are out as well since a ship of this size would produce to much friction, both in the wheel mechanics and between the tires/ground so that would simply be to risky. Besides, maintenance would be a bitch. Think of all the poor engineers. Then I got the idea. An idea that would shift the energy consumption from ship to ground allowing the ship to land without using a huge amount of energy. But where would the stopping force come from then? Well the ground. So I got the idea that what if the airstrip itself provided the entire force of keeping the spacecraft on(off) the ground. Large ships would land on airstrips with a built-in combination of air pressure and magnets holding the ship of the ground during approach. The ship would then use its own forward thrusters to slow down until finally coming to a halt at the end of the airstrip. There it would deploy its landing gear on either the ground or a movable platform. Think of it like airhockey only with half a kilometer long ships. This way a lot of the energy would be used more efficiently and the ship itself would only have to provide the forward stopping force (by burning their forward thrusters at full). The downside might be that the landing strips would have to be pretty damn long, many kilometers long. Just like for modern space shuttles. Even so, I think it's a great idea considering the alternatives. I'm just wondering if it has been thought of before. So here is my concept of how it would look: |
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