STAR TREK: USS Wirral C construction progress

New Star Trek ship i've created from scratch in Blender, USS Wirral NCC - 0616 - C, this ship would be in the same era as TNG, DS9 & Voyager.
The design was mostly influenced by the Intrepid class ship.

I found a really good site for Star Trek blueprints, its got nearly every ship and i found it a help when making my own design: http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php

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• Wirral
• NCC
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• DS9
• Voyager
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[1autotech01]

where did you get the software to make your own designs?

[thechrisbluenose]

@1autotech01 Its a totally free animation program called Blender, all me animations are done in it, and there's loads of tutorials on youtube on how to get started with it.

[MageSutek]

Voyager with inverted nacelles? Seems a little small for an Intrepid Class starship, and yet they are spitting images with the exception of the engines. Moreover, the fourth in the class of ship with a “C” in the registry? Very interesting indeed.

[thechrisbluenose]

@MageSutek Its not supposed to be an exact Intrepid class an it would be smaller than an Intrepid, if yer compare the two, the Intrepid hull looks more smoother an rounded and doesn't have the connecting interhull between the saucer section and the secondary hull, The idea behind the "C" registry for this one is the first USS Wirral would have been destroyed or heavily damaged in a battle with the klingons and rebuilt as "A", then there would be the USS Wirral "B" and then this one.

[TheBurntBiscuit]

@thechrisbluenose To be honest, there are way too many intrepid remakes and this is one of them, whether you like it or not. Sure you've made a change here and there, but it isn't an original design in any aspect.

Also, only Enterprise use the letter suffixes in her registry. When new ships take the names of old ships, the registry does not change.

For example, there have been three ships in the ST universe to carry the name Defiant yet they each have their own, unique registry code.

[thechrisbluenose]

@TheBurntBiscuit It is heavily based on the Intrepid yeah, but with subtle changes to make it just not an exact Intrepid which was my thought process when making it, and it would be a bit smaller than a proper Intrepid.

I just copied from the Enterprise idea regarding the letter suffixes to be honest, thought that was the done thing like.

[smitto21]

makes me think of a proto intrepid



[ForeverDoctorWho]

That's voyager

[Iakkons92]

E' orrenda!

[InnSewerAnts]

@thechrisbluenose Get a better cpu I think, rendering with blender and modelling/rendering apps like that is mostly cpu based, graphics card is only used for the realtime 3d viewports while designing.

At least I haven't found a decent cuda/gpu enabled renderer yet.

I have 3 gigs of ram but when I try to render the complete animation I made (sort of trailer for the game teeworlds) it will crash halfway with out of memory, so I just stick to making stills or designing models to be 3d printed