Fun with Greyscale

[PGoodman13]

Photon tubes come out okay? I had a bear of a time getting those to look remotely right, as they're so inconsistantly drawn , and the pics of the Enterprise herself doesn't quite show what they should look like 'dead on'... alas.

They look okay to me, though I have to admit I'd hate to be the gunners having to man them, considering their proximity to the warp nacelle. I'd probably consider a rollbar arrangement (a la the Miranda-class) or a secondary pylon to mount the photon torpedo launchers over the saucer, though that might look a little unwieldy.

If Meyer hadn't gone to such great lengths in ST2 to show that those were manned stations and not automated, it wouldn't be such a big deal.

[TFVanguard]

USS Izmail Class Cruiser

(Based on a Fan design from SSTCS, completely reworked)

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USS Decatur Class Cruiser

[AslanC]

Still looking good

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USS Surya Class Frigate

[Phoenix]

Ah the Proto-Miranda, where are you getting all of these cesigns from?

[TFVanguard]

Ah the Proto-Miranda, where are you getting all of these cesigns from?

All the images being done now are my redraws. The original designs, of course, come from a large variety of sources, such as FASA, SFB, Star Trek itself, LUG Trek, etc ... I'm basically compiling as much as I can to make a 'realistic' TOS fleet - working it in within the original framework ... that of the US Navy circa 1945.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

USS Decatur Class Cruiser

This one looks really ugly to me. Hmm.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

I hate fed ships with three nacelles......actually, I dislike all fed ships with odd numbers of nacelles. They always look odd to me.

Three nacelles i can deal with... it's the one-nacelle designs that i just can't take. If i'm ever going to use the Larson and Nelson classes, i'll throw on an extra nacelle (making the Larson look like a streamlined derf, and the nelson a streamlined, um, tug?)

[TFVanguard]

Klingon Type D-7 Cruiser

[TFVanguard]

This one looks really ugly to me. Hmm.

Not my design.. I think the secondary hull goes down too low, both in form and function. It looks a bit better from other angles, but - in this case - it's pretty obvious the designs had a great side view in mind, and didn't pay much attention to the other two views.

[First of Two]

Fortunately, the hull shrunk a bit, top-to-bottom, in the TMP version, the Belknap.

[TFVanguard]

Fortunately, the hull shrunk a bit, top-to-bottom, in the TMP version, the Belknap.

Yeah, I noticed that. I got very tempted to go ahead and make that modification to the Decatur as well... but I wanted to keep pretty true to the original design. In this case.. maybe I should have tweaked it more.

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USS Taurus Class Cruiser

From Steve Long's Spacedock

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USS Loknar (Refit) Class Frigate

It's bizzare. FASA goes to the trouble of writing up this ship, then doesn't ever show it except for a very badly drawn, and inaccurate (no torp launcher in view, etc...) side view... What's odder is that I couldn't find a version of this ship that really TRIED to be a Loknar upgrade. I found some 'Phobos' class pics (all of which different), but none of which came close to the lines of the Loknar.

So... here it is.