TH&B: Ships of the Naraka Empire

[Freak]

As some of you know I am building ship for my own Universe. One of the factions in this Universe, is the Naraka Empire.
Instead of starting a thread for every ship that I build for the Naraka Empire, I will be posting them all here.

For those of you that are wondering, Naraka, is the Hindi word for Hell.

So let start of with the first ship.

This is the basic shape for the Naraka fgither.
The area that have not been smoothed will be turned into the ships cockpit windows.
It a two manned ship, the gunner is located in the Noise and pilot sits directly behind him.

I am still thinking about weapons, one the idea is of a dual mini gun that would be directly under the Gunner.
As the main hull only has a small secondary engine located at the bottom of the ship in the middle. With the Exception of the manned areas the ship has a lot of space for weapons.

As mentioned, this ship main hull will only hold the cockpit, gunner, a small secondary engine and the weapons systems, this mean that there is no where to place a Landing gear. So the landing gear will be located at the end of the wings.

Anyway onto the pics!

[Lord Ravensburg]

it has an interesting shape Dean. I look forward to seeing this progress.

[Hyperspace]

Hmm, are you sure that is large enough to hold a crew of two?

[Freak]

Thanks LR

@ Hyperspace, it sure can. I do my models around the Max stick men so they can fit in with room to spare.


After posting it last night. I started to define the shape a bit more.
I think I am almost there. Just a few areas that I am not happy with, like the secondary engine intake vents. But I will be working on that today.

So it almost ready for details.

[Tinukedaya]

an interestingly shaped fighter that is for sure...

the maxman inside, it's the gunner or the pilot?

[Freak]

The one in the nose is the gunner. I need to move him back a little, to give him more head room. All of the front section of the nose will be a canopy for him to look out off., it would also have H.U.D built into it, so he can see areas that are blind spots to him. He will be in command of a dual mini gun that will be located directly below him, and the missile system, which I still need to think about where to locate.

The Pilot is the directly behind the gunner and is the sitting man.

I now started to model the panels and should have that done today or tomorrow. Once that is done I will be starting work on the wings. Still need to think about a landing gear, as this will not be kept within the main hull.

[Tinukedaya]

Ahhhhhh that's an laying maxman!!! I thought it's inner work of the weapons! His feets looks like an gun-stock the sitting one is ready to grab. Right it won't really be a position I would like to sit in for long, but you get my point.

[Freak]

Hehehe yeah it would be uncomfortable to lay in that position in gravity for too long with nothing to rest the head on. But this ship is design for mainly space use. As there would be no gravity generators onboard he would float most of the time. With straps holding him place. so he would not suffer with neck or back problems.

Of course I could put him on his back, but then he would have a bigger blind spot than he currently does.

[Berkut]

cool idea. A tad small for my taste almost like a single person ejection pod, but interesting shape. Lets just hope the gunner doesn't fall asleep, lol.

[Ice-Dragon]

That's an interesting shaped fighter you have there Dean
I look forward to seeing how you progress with it