Get Well Soon!
Jayru (JSnaith's) 3D Trek
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Thank you for the update. Get well soon
I can reveal that due to heart failure (a state I am constantly in), I started to retain fluid. 20 liters has been drained off so far, and it's looking like that was the limit. Could be home by Friday and then back at the coal-face next week. There is also a plan going forward to sort one of the valves that has failed, so that will happen soon. Latest avi pic is of me in my hospital bay, and the smile is genuine. I put on 20 kilos in one week, and then lost it again. Very happy.
More soon!
More soon!
I have the same thing but mine is different. I understand how you feel. Like you my artwork also suffers from periods of great inertia due to the effects of heart failure and the tag along conditions.
Love your 3D ships and will follow this thread.
Amazing work on this legendary beauty! Are these models going to be publicly released and if so what format?Let's have a little fun before I move onto the Hanger Bay -
Tweaks still happening, more later
You doing okay man?
Co-morbid conditions are common with CHD (Congenital Heart Disease) - and as more adults are actually surviving to be, well, adults, things get complex. I've recently co-authored a medical paper dealing with having CHD and living with HF (Heart Failure) long term. When it's published, I'll share the link.
The plan is to release these models - l need to start thinking about how I want to do that.
I am doing ok.
Still taking it easy, not been home a week yet. I have some news: last year a hospital in the UK invented a new procedure to replace the Tricuspid Valve, the only heart valve that remained irreplacable. Only certain people are being considered for it at the moment, and I'm not one of them (not suitable, too much scar tissue on the ticker). Also last year, the Royal Brompton Hospital created a new procedure called "TriClip" where a partial repair could be done to the Tricuspid Valve. Guess which hospital I have been going to for the last 40 years? The Royal Brompton Hospital - who just transferred me to a new unit they set up in Birmingham, where I was for my last admission. But being part of the same team, they can do it too.
So... Lots to digest. What this all means is that there is something they can do. I may well hit 60 in spite of the original forecast, but lots of tests have to be done first. It will prevent the fluid overload which put me in hospital last time (20 liters of fluid... which amounts to 20 kilos of weight, that wasn't fun). It's a case of watching this space.
Anyway, more soon. I will be getting back into things soon. Just playing catch up with home life.
Just get well so we can enjoy your latest works.
Glad you'll be doing the "original" Excelsior version, as opposed to the narrower-bodied Jein version from VOY's "Flashback".
As I always say, I will do my best, with the caveat within the limits of my abilities. I've worked on the Excelsior before, the class has always fascinated me. It's meant to be bigger than Paramount has listed (officially, the length is 467 meters). And I may work on a ship that fits a larger size, but she's also meant to be the "Heavy Cruiser" replacement, so maybe the official size works. Hummm. I will get the basic frame and shapes, and then think about her scale so decks actually work. I will be avoiding the TUC issue with the bridge modual only being big enough for Smurfs.
We shall see.
More soon.
We shall see.
More soon.
OH joy I see an Excelsior by Jayru folder to archive the project on my hard-drives in the future 
Exceed the limits of your abilities, just to annoy people.
You need a hobby - annoying people in a good way, seems like a good idea...
You need a hobby - annoying people in a good way, seems like a good idea...
I am losing the plot...
I've already done a logical Excelsior;
I am so sorry gang, my mind is still a little fried. Humm, ok, well... That leads me to say I have a few ideas to play with. Something TMP, but maybe something original with a few nods? Leave it with me.
More later
I've already done a logical Excelsior;
I am so sorry gang, my mind is still a little fried. Humm, ok, well... That leads me to say I have a few ideas to play with. Something TMP, but maybe something original with a few nods? Leave it with me.
More later
Hi Jayru did you ever do the NX version of the Excelsior?
I didn't, but I could adapt the current model I have to be the NX version with a little work.
More on the Challenger study;
(Again, nods to Bill Krause and Todd Guenther).
My thinking:
Starfleet didn't just build one ship to test out the Transwarp Drive. They would have built several in different configurations to work out the best way forward with this new technology. That means that experimentally, at least, the Transwarp Drive worked. Now, I've maintained for years that the drive wasn't an outright failure but rather paved the way for the TNG warp scale, with its absolute of Warp 10. When I was posting on the FRS many (many) moons ago, I had this discussion with Aridas Sofia and Todd Guenther. I think they broadly liked my compromise that the Excelsior wasn't a failure but didn't quite succeed as it should have.
In a nut shell, my thinking was that the Transwarp Drive had "peak transitions" as you went faster, and that at some stage the Warp Scale was aligned to fit with those observed "peak transitions." This is how we can have the TOS Enterprise hit warp 14 in one episode, but warp 10 becomes an absolute later in TNG.
It's an idea, at least. Maybe worth consideration? Not the place for the discussion.
Now, as for the Challenger - this ship was a testbed for several systems proposed for the Excelsior, including a prototype Transwarp Drive system. The Challenger, unlike the Enterprise, was designed to hit warp 14 and not fall apart.
Did it succeed?
That's a story in itself.
Anyways, comments welcome, and more soon.
I like the use of up-scaled Oberth nacelles and the Shangri-La saucer.
The looks are all there but with your own design flair to it. coming along nicely.
The looks are all there but with your own design flair to it. coming along nicely.
