Have you ever designed a starship?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I have.



This is just a basic 3DS Max design- it's basically a bunch of stuff thrown together. No lights, no windows, no beauty shots- just playing around one afternoon a couple years ago. It's absolutely, completely derivitive- but I still think it's cool!

[porkrind]

1. Yes,

I have designed several. However, the last one I designed for His Highness, the Emperor of Viskul'en IV, turned out to be much too understated for the ostentatious taste of his 3 wives, so I was banished to this hopelessly backward planet as a punishment. I'm still hoping for an appeal.

BTW, your image doesn't show.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. I know what you mean.

I'm waiting for the Mothership myself.

The direct url to my image is: xxx

Copy the url, then paste, removing the "xxx" at the end.

Don't know why it doesn't wanna show directly.

[intheflow]

3. My son endlesly designed starships out of Legos.

This was age 6-9. From 9-10 years old, he designed elaborate starships out of decks of cards. What can I say? We were poor and he was creative with what he had. :)

[ikojo]

4. A former high school classmate of mine does

what he calls speculative spaceship designs....

Here is a link to his website....


http://www.dcmstarships.com/index.html


Enjoy!!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. Thanks for the link

He does incredible work!

[ikojo]

6. Yes, he is amazing.

In his bio he writes about working on Star Wars related designs. I remember one he did and it took many sheets of 11 x 14 paper to complete it all. It was done in the same vogue as the blue prints in the Star Fleet Handbook that came out in the mid 1970s.

[porkrind]

8. Wow, that guy has put a lot of work into that!

I love it when people do their own imaginative projects. Good for him.

[ashmanonar]

9. lol

some of the stuff is pretty cool...but some of the ships look decidedly...phallic?

[Placebo]

7. Oh you KNOW I have...

several, in fact.

Mostly Star Trek vessels, but also ones of my own creation. Only on paper though, I've never brought them to life digitally.

[Endangered Specie]

10. Yeah, but they are all on paper.

[Ready4Change]

11. Lots.

In high school I and a friend did the math to figure how long a slower than light flight to Alpha Centauri would take, given a ship with theoretical drives able to produce 1 G of thrust with a certain fuel efficiency. (Clearly waaaaaay optimistic, but hey.)

From that we know how much fuel mass we needed to make the trip with a certain load, and I drew the thing up. It was pretty clearly influenced by "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Shortly thereafter we saw Star Wars, and started playing the Traveller RPG, and I've lost track of all the ships, done for gaming purposes or just whims of fantasy. Some are just scribbles, some more detailed, some have deck layouts for gaming uses.

It's fun.

[ZombieNixon]

12. Yes. Two as of now.

I started putting random primitives together in Cinema 4D and ended up with two ships. On uses the Alcubierre drive (the only Einstein-friendly "warp drive") and is the flagship for whatever overstretched harrassed galactic government I inevitably invent, and its arch-nemesis, an asteroid sized monstrosity with the hull of a Klingon D7 and the engines of the Tantive IV with a weapon that disperses the atmosphere off a planet.

They're both real cool, I think I'll put 'em in a movie!