The Ships of Star Trek (2009)

A few days ago I my new ‘Star Trek:The Art of the Film’ book arrived in the post, I was overjoyed with the amazing artwork in there, even more so at the referance imagery for the ships from the new movie, so I decided to get to work recreating profiles for the ships from the film with the new material available. I’ve started with the USS Kelvin, I’m having issues with how to scale it though, since all evidence on screen points towards a small ship, it seems apparent the Enterprise was rescaled after the Kelvin scenes were made, which makes the other Starfleet ships really hard to scale to a large Enterprise, since they are all Kelvin Kitbashes pretty much. Which is actually quite annoying, as I was thinking of putting the Enterprise at her official scale, but that doesn’t work with the other ships. It really is a shame they rescaled the ships after production had commenced!

I’ll add the other ships over the coming days as I create them, I had to place my Enterprise in this post for obvious reasons!

Science ship revisited

It’s been a few weeks since I did any 3d work, so I decided to fire up 3dsmax and get back to work on the Science ship concept John Eaves did for PE’s Star Trek Online. I only altered a few minor details, I still need to add the hull detailing to the saucer (if you can call it that!) as well as sort out the textures, since they arn’t properly set to the model yet. I’ll probably rework the shuttle bay area since the markings don’t really flow that well.

Here is the MSD created by Padsbrat (Bmusded55), you can find more great work at his website:- http://lcarsgfx.wordpress.com/

Bandai Enterprise-E Model

I’ve just started working on modifying my Bandai model of the Enterprise-E so that it can use power from the mains instead of batteries, I’m also working on replacing the bulbs inside it with LED’s for better light quality as well, so I thought that before I started stripping the ship apart I’d get some photo’s of it beforehand!

I’ll try to add some pictures of it lit up later today, time permitting ofcourse!

Klingon Desktop

I made this today for another project but thought I’d share it for anyone that may be a Klingon fan

Perpetual’s STO Tour

I wrote this article at the time PE folded, but never published it until now, enjoy

It was almost 1 year ago now that I received the tour of Star Trek Online, thus some of the information below is already known or may be out of date. With PE’s closure recently, I decided to do a write up of my tour for those that have been following STO to see exactly what was planed and what could of been. Bare in mind I’m not a creative writer, so I’ll try to keep it simple.

Star Trek Online Ship Tiers Chart & STO Enters Beta!

A few of you who follow star Trek online may have seen my work in progress ship tiers chart, its my intention to have a chart with all the required information about the ships in Star Trek Online all in one place, whilst looking aesthetically pleasing (as opposed to a table format). I’m creating the chart in a widescreen resolution so it can be used as a desktop image, or printed out.

 

Klingon Bird of Prey Paradox

For quite a while now fans have argued about the size of the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. In the original films it was portrayed as a small ship with a size of around 110 metres, however, when The Next Generation came out the Bird-of-Prey appeared in a few epidodes in a completely different scale, the most obvious offender episodes been ‘The Defector’ and ‘ Yesterdays Enterprise’. This was attributed to this new Bird-of_prey being a different class, Bernd over at Ex Astris Scientia hasa good article regarding the scaling and classes:-

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/bop-size.htm

Klingon Javtal Class Battlecruiser

So, whilst I was browsing the net I ran into a few conversations about the lack of Klingon ship designs compared to the Federation and after reading Bernds article about The Bird of Prey size paradox I decided it was time to design a replacement for the aging Bird of Prey, I wanted a vessel that would share the size of the Kvort variant and I really loved the Bird of Prey when its wings were up in the uppermost position. My idea behind the design was that after the Dominion war many of the Alpha Quadrant powers managed to salvage ships from all races involved, which would of created a rush of new technolgies for pretty much everyone involved. I decided to got with Vorcha class colourings as it gives the ship a more futuritic feel to it.

I’ll try to get some stats for the ship worked out and add them later to this post.

Size Comparison Chart

So, I was browsing the net looking for images of the Norway class starship and realised there wern’t really many decent plans of it, at the same time, I also noticed that most size comparison charts out there use images from various sources, some of which do not retain the same style (for example line drawings next to renders), so I decided to start working though the ships and create them all in one style, I decided to go for the simplified LCARS side views as this shows off the profiles of the ships much better. I’ll add more ships to this post as I create them.

Miranda Class MSD (Updated 12/09)

 

Its been a busy month, leaving very little time for me to actually do any artwork. Thankfully I’m now on holiday, so I decided I’d take on a little project before I fly over to England to see my folks.