[NEM+] Hayden class Scout / Data Collector

There's a bit of backdrop for this little (litteraly) ship, if anyone's interested in it I'll post it.

Basically, this ship is used for data collection, filling up the charts of Federation mapmakers. It's highly armored, as in *MOAR ABBLATIVE ARMOR!!!*, but she can't pack much of a punch: with just a single quantum torpedo launcher, a single normal torpedo tube and four phaserstrips, she rather runs (pretty fast, W9.999) from trouble instead of trying to battle her way out. That armor comes in handy when facing larger starships, as certain parties in the galaxy (the Orion Syndicate, for example) don't want others to know what they're up to.

Enough babbling, picture time! ^_^

... That is, when I figure out how to post pictures in here Do I need to use an external image hoster?

[Darrell Lawrence]

For the mo, yeah. Attachments should come up after full membership (namely, after 5 posts)

[evil_genius_180]

Well, you're 3/5 of the way there. Just post a couple more times and upload some attachments. I wanna see this thing.

YAY ATTACHMENT TIEM! About time

I know that the images aren't the best viewable around, but at the moment this is all I've got. I'll post an image of my bridge after this post

[Darrell Lawrence]

Looks cool

Look forward to following the progress on these.

I like that drydock design.

And, as promised, the bridge, and some more shots of the ship itself Don't mind that Captain's chair; I need to rework it >_<

[Lee]

I love that background image. Nice work on the models.

On a posting spree here :p

Next two images

[evil_genius_180]

My lord, you people all ninja posted on me. Back in a couple with comments.

[Darrell Lawrence]

I knows nuffin about Sketchup, but can you smooth edges with it, like beveling maybe?

[Darrell Lawrence]

Bridge design is cool!

Pff... last one for now This render was done with a different light setting, andsince then I'm trying out new locations for my omni-lights as I go. Still have to find one that really pleases me though...

The last image is the shuttlebay from the inside, although I need to add more ceiling lights to it to make it a bit brighter in there. All in the works

I need to find that out Warrior, Ozylot over at SFM made that remark too. *goes googling*

[evil_genius_180]

OK, now that I've seen everything, nice work so far. I like the different direction you're taking this ship. And the bridge looks great so far.

[gmd3d]

Sweet designs .. beveling will help to remove the sharpness of the surface edges .. this is a problem with my first mesh ..

[evil_genius_180]

I think it was a problem with everyone's first mesh.

Well here's my reworked chair from the Olympus. There's not much left of the original but I thought it never hurts to credit someone

[skyhawk223]

Nice work on the design. I like the last image showing the ship from the rear quarter.
Plan on adding any textures? That would really make the ship pop.

Thanks Skyhawk, that is one of my favorite shots as well. I want to make textures for it but currently don't know how. I'm afraid SketchUp doesn't natively support cross-face textures; right now if I place a texture, if it's a complicated face, the texture gets garbled up. But when I'm able too I will sure do!

[evil_genius_180]

Can SketchUp export to .obj format? If it can, you can get a freeware program like Blender to use to apply textures. There are also freeware renderers and I'm sure you can apply textures in those as well. That would solve the problem of applying the textures, then you'd just have to figure out how to make them.

Like the look of the Hayden what era is it set in

As the title suggests, it's post Nemesis. I'm currently working on another project but as soon as I'm done with that I'll finish up this little ship

[ulimann644]

Great colours on the second pic. ( of the first post ) Is it made by you ? Nice composition too - with a little more work on the lighting, that the meshes match with the background, you´ll have a "killer-picture"

Well... I think you deserved this picture after such a long wait

The model is done. Now all I have to do is make purty pictures with it ^_^

[evil_genius_180]

That's pretty cool, dude.

[Starship]

Looks fine!
Just one question: are those big insets really windows?

Which ones do you mean? The oval shapes? Yes, those are windows. The ship is fairly small, she's got only 6 decks of which only 4 are 'real' decks (Deck 1 is the bridge, Deck 6 houses the lower part of deflector control and the airlocks).

This shot shows the airlock a bit better. As with everything else that has windows on this ship, this one has some sort of an interior too. It's still empty save for the lights, but when I need to I can put anything in I want

[evil_genius_180]

I guess that answers the burning question of how those giant ceiling-to-floor windows on the Enterprise-D would look on a small ship.

Seriously, it looks good, dude. I especially like the way you did the emblem and stripes on the side. I think this ship would make a cool game mod. It looks fast and maneuverable.

[Starship]

Originally Posted by BorgMan

This shot shows the airlock a bit better. As with everything else that has windows on this ship, this one has some sort of an interior too. It's still empty save for the lights, but when I need to I can put anything in I want

Now I understand. Looks cool indeed!

An excerpt from the log of the Hayden's captain, Jonathan Smith:

Captain's log, stardate 65001.5.
We have been dispatched to a remote nebula, answering a faint and badly degraded distress signal. The signal is Starfleet, though we didn't know who send it as it did not have any identification markers attached. We have just arrived at the scene, and have discovered an old Leopard class frigate. Lifesupport and power are not present, but what worries me most is that a ship name or registry isn't either. I've composed an armed to the teeth boarding party to find out what's going on...