Here’s a little something I’ve been working on for Star Trek Online, a Galactic Map for when you are lost! It is still a work in progress, as such some information might not be entirely correct, there may also be some typo’s as well. I will be adding Fleet Action Locations as soon as I level up and can get them all charted out.
Star Trek Online entered open beta this week, finally allowing the NDA that has been covering it to be lifted. So far it has been a hugely enjoyable experiance which really makes you feel like you are in the Trek universe. As you can see from the image above and below, many familiar locations and engagements are in the game 
Happy New Year everyone! Apologies for the lack of updates lately, I have been in England over Christmas with the family.
As per a request in the Star Trek Online beta channels I’ve created a wallpaper image of all the Enterprise incarnations, I’ve created it in widescreen and normal resolutuons. And yes, I still have the JJPrise at 366m
Continue reading ‘Enterprise Comparison Chart (Happy New Year)’
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!
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/
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!
I made this today for another project but thought I’d share it for anyone that may be a Klingon fan
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.
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.
On that note. I’d also like to point out that as of last night, STO officially went into closed beta, you can apply on their website. For the time being they are only accepting small numbers of people, obviously as they don’t want to stress the servers out too much at such an early stage. I’ll be updating the chart as much as I can as more information becomes available
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
