The Great Awakening begins: The Baton Rouge class
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Hello folks,
As part of the package for the "Great Awakening" I have drawn up a set of blueprints for a vessel from that period from a hostile alien power, the Kzinti. Not having seen many heavy warship designs for the Kzinti over the years, save for the Amarillo Design Bureau works, I thought I would throw my hat into the ring. Drawing upon other source material (the ship from the AARU Dalek Invasion of Earth film) that roughly corresponds with the look of Kzinti technology from the written word, the TAS episode "The Slaver Weapon", and the 60s design aesthetic inherent in Star Trek TOS' stylings I came up with this design. Without further ado, I present to you the Cheshire Cat class heavy warship.
As part of the package for the "Great Awakening" I have drawn up a set of blueprints for a vessel from that period from a hostile alien power, the Kzinti. Not having seen many heavy warship designs for the Kzinti over the years, save for the Amarillo Design Bureau works, I thought I would throw my hat into the ring. Drawing upon other source material (the ship from the AARU Dalek Invasion of Earth film) that roughly corresponds with the look of Kzinti technology from the written word, the TAS episode "The Slaver Weapon", and the 60s design aesthetic inherent in Star Trek TOS' stylings I came up with this design. Without further ado, I present to you the Cheshire Cat class heavy warship.
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I'm liking it 
That is one fine piece of work.
Thank you Kaiser, Aridas, and publiusr. I appreciate everyone's support and enthusiasm for the work. I've still need to finalize the ventral view, but I have the Bridge Layout for you all to peruse. It's heavily drawn the Traitor's Claw interior Space (I wouldn't necessarily call it a bridge) from "The Slaver Weapon"- enjoy!
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Alright folks here is the ventral view of the Cheshire Cat for you to look over.. Enjoy!
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Hello all,
If things work out in the next few days to a week I'll be posting the final sheets for the "The Great Awakening" which will include a derived work from Matt Jefferies' biography book, "Beyond The Clouds"- stay tuned.
If things work out in the next few days to a week I'll be posting the final sheets for the "The Great Awakening" which will include a derived work from Matt Jefferies' biography book, "Beyond The Clouds"- stay tuned.
Looking forward to it
Alright, let's open this back up. After a considerable computer-induced hiatus, I have been finishing up a few things on this project, and making a few corrections to the original sheets I had produced. The two sheets missing from the original compilation where 4 and 5, which were to be plans for a UESPA auxiliary craft. As I had hinted at earlier, the source material I had drawn from was none other than Matt Jefferies himself.
The sketch is one of the preliminary designs for the Shuttlecraft Galileo (which can be found in his biography, Beyond The Clouds, shown in a previous post in this thread) albeit in a much different form than any of the other designs I have seen to date. This would also appear to have been where some of the ideas and aspects of the DY-100 Freighter from the 1990s, The Botany Bay, from the episode "Space Seed" first appear. That said, I have referenced that similarity in the plans for the shuttlecraft.
Since the shuttle appears to be notably more primitive than later shuttlecraft designs I thought it would fit perfectly with the period I was working in (pre-TOS, non-Enterprise 2220s) for the Great Awakening, but I wanted to flesh out the details a bit more, and so I also drew upon some of the design elements from a unspecified craft that was in "The Cage" / "The Menagerie". To start, let me refresh your memory what I am talking about. After Pike and the landing party beam down to Talos IV, they encounter the encampment illusion, and among the various set pieces is what appears to be a piece of a very real aircraft that was salvaged for the scene.
Which after much research I have determined belongs to this..
A USAF B-45c Tornado Bomber. Not only does the general shape of the front nose canopy match the set piece, the diamond shaped bases of each window frames match as well. When taken in combination, I thought both elements complimented one another, and with a few aspects of the B-25 cockpit added to the mix and with numerous fits and starts, I finally came up with UESPA's first warp-capable shuttlecraft, the Class C which I present to you below. I'll also be posting some revisions of the previous pages in the next day or so (mostly correcting minor errors).
The sketch is one of the preliminary designs for the Shuttlecraft Galileo (which can be found in his biography, Beyond The Clouds, shown in a previous post in this thread) albeit in a much different form than any of the other designs I have seen to date. This would also appear to have been where some of the ideas and aspects of the DY-100 Freighter from the 1990s, The Botany Bay, from the episode "Space Seed" first appear. That said, I have referenced that similarity in the plans for the shuttlecraft.
Since the shuttle appears to be notably more primitive than later shuttlecraft designs I thought it would fit perfectly with the period I was working in (pre-TOS, non-Enterprise 2220s) for the Great Awakening, but I wanted to flesh out the details a bit more, and so I also drew upon some of the design elements from a unspecified craft that was in "The Cage" / "The Menagerie". To start, let me refresh your memory what I am talking about. After Pike and the landing party beam down to Talos IV, they encounter the encampment illusion, and among the various set pieces is what appears to be a piece of a very real aircraft that was salvaged for the scene.
Which after much research I have determined belongs to this..
A USAF B-45c Tornado Bomber. Not only does the general shape of the front nose canopy match the set piece, the diamond shaped bases of each window frames match as well. When taken in combination, I thought both elements complimented one another, and with a few aspects of the B-25 cockpit added to the mix and with numerous fits and starts, I finally came up with UESPA's first warp-capable shuttlecraft, the Class C which I present to you below. I'll also be posting some revisions of the previous pages in the next day or so (mostly correcting minor errors).
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