Uss Navajron

[BoogerMc]

I was saving this for after I finished my carrier, but having run into RAM problems, I'm having to put her on hold a while longer. So to keep things going, here is an idea I've been kicking around. The premise was simple enough to start, create some guns on whic I could play with materials and textures. That evolved into create a ship whose sole purpose is a weapons platform, a lot of guns and missle launchers, some big engines and a comm array, slap a bridge on it and call it done. She's heavily armoured and even heavierly armed. At current there are 6 long range cannons (possibly increasing to 8 or 10), 20 medium range guns (possibly going to double), 18 flak cannons [each of which is a quad gattling gun] (possibly going to double or triple) and 16 missle launchers (possibly going to double). These numbers cover just the top side of the ship; the bottom will have guns as well which is why some of these numbers are going to increase as such. The large side cutouts will most likely contain flak cannons, but haven't really decided on that yet. The two protrusions up front will be the comm arrays and the engines I haven't snapped a pic of yet, because I'm not sure if I'm going to keep them as they are right now.

Anyway, here she is the USS NAVAJRON. Enjoy - oh - C & C welcomed.

[Nevets]

Hmmm... Interesting design.

[BoogerMc]

Why thank you, you could say I just blocked it out.

[evil_genius_180]

It sort of reminds me of an Inca pyramid, with the step-like sides. Cool start, I can't wait to see more.

Sorry to hear you're having RAM troubles with the Klingon carrier. You've put so much work into that and it's awesome.

[BoogerMc]

Well, thank you again. As for the Carrier, turns out it's not my RAM that's the problem, it's my harddrive. I have the fastest my system can support, but it's not fast enough to keep up with the demands the file is placing on it, so it will be slow going until I'm done. Wish me luck.

I'm hoping to wrap this one a lot quicker, it's not intended to be highly detailed, but I still have more to add.

[evil_genius_180]

Damn, I knew your Klingon ship was a beast, but your HD can't even handle it. I guess it's a superbeast.

[BoogerMc]

Well the way it was explained to me is, Blender is asking for information faster than my HD can cough it up, so it slows Blender down and that's why it's taking five minutes to do something that should have only taken five seconds. I'm in serious doo.

Let me break it down for you, the primary hull or nose section is 35.7 MB, the neck and tail section which includes the shroud is 116 MB and the secondary hull or wing section is 538 MB. I'm not sure where, but somewhere in the last page or so of the carrier thread I posted the face count of just half the wing and it was over the top. If you haven't looked at it lately, check out what's been done since the last time you saw it.

More on the NAVAJRON as I get to it.

[BoogerMc]

And speaking of updates, I plated the tower and added some more windows. I'm considering making some even smaller inclose guns to place around the tower.



I wanted to see what it might look like in orbit, so I did a little playing around and got the second pic. Anyway, enjoy.

[Dimitriy]

A flying inca pyramid with guns all over it? What are you guys smoking ?
But seriously, an interesting idea...

If it was up to me, I would take out some of those guns... Just 'cause I come from a real world where ships only have 8-9 guns of a main caliber....

[BoogerMc]

Take some out? Hell I still have the underside guns to add in. It's a floating gun platform, that's its sole purpose, no fighters, no exploring, none of that stuff, nada, nill, no way Jose and all that. It's a true "... but carry a big stick" kinda thing, you know.