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Title: Concept ships
Post by: General Battuta on August 06, 2008, 11:51:46 am
Check out conceptships.org and the accompanying blog. (http://conceptships.blogspot.com/2008/08/concept-ships-by-andrey-yamkovoy.html) It might be good inspiration for modelers looking to break out of whatever paradigm they feel they're trapped in.

I know that most modelers are more starved for time than ideas, but perhaps if you're just getting started, you could try to emulate some of these?

Anyway, I think some of them are pretty cool. Roam back through the archive a ways.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Aardwolf on August 06, 2008, 07:34:13 pm
Browsing it now... cool stuff!
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: boewolf on August 06, 2008, 08:49:12 pm
Ideas achieved...  Will post when I have something.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Droid803 on August 06, 2008, 09:00:50 pm
So much awesome artwork...
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on August 07, 2008, 03:15:39 am
Hmmn, lots of cool stuff. Problem is, for anything Freespace related you have to follow a theme so it'll fit within the universe. A lot of those ships, however cool, would not. Regardless, thanks for the link. Will bookmark it.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Scooby_Doo on August 07, 2008, 03:22:23 am
Definetely bookmarked.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: General Battuta on August 07, 2008, 11:25:40 am
Hmmn, lots of cool stuff. Problem is, for anything Freespace related you have to follow a theme so it'll fit within the universe. A lot of those ships, however cool, would not. Regardless, thanks for the link. Will bookmark it.

Well, unless you're doing a new species, or a new era. Look at how tremendously real-world ship design has changed in the past thirty years, what with the advent of tumblehome hulls and stealth superstructures and all that. I think you could justify a big stylistic shift.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on August 07, 2008, 09:37:22 pm
Well, unless you're doing a new species, or a new era. Look at how tremendously real-world ship design has changed in the past thirty years, what with the advent of tumblehome hulls and stealth superstructures and all that. I think you could justify a big stylistic shift.

      Well, at times I've pondered doing a Vasudan Fleet like Strattcom's Terrans. But it's never gotten past the sketching stage. It's hard to design something futuristic and yet still recognizable as something else.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 08, 2008, 05:39:48 pm
The Zeus is a Vaygr mothership, isn't it? Looks awesome in that picture.
 It would be great as a new GTSD builded some decades after the Colossus destruction, as the Terran flagship. The Vasudans has a VNSD too, so GTVA has two SDs in its navy. The Alliance gets ready for the return of the Shivans and a Third Great War  ;7
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: ShadowGorrath on August 08, 2008, 05:52:30 pm
The Zeus is the battleship from OGame. Someone definetly MUST model it for in-game use!
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Stormkeeper on August 08, 2008, 09:28:39 pm
I drool over the Terran Battlecruiser.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Hades on August 08, 2008, 10:37:50 pm
The Zeus is the battleship from OGame. Someone definetly MUST model it for in-game use!
Actually no, the Zeus ship from that link was inspired very much by the Vaygr's original mothership concept.
http://shipyards.relicnews.com/hw2/images/display.htm?concept_flagship07.jpg
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Droid803 on August 08, 2008, 10:41:09 pm
Compare that to the OGame battleship:
http://www.ogame.org/img/wallpapers/battleship_1280x1024.jpg
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Hades on August 08, 2008, 10:42:12 pm
Which really doesn't look like the Zeus in the above link.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Droid803 on August 08, 2008, 10:43:42 pm
Agreed, actually. The engines are completely different, and there are not glowy circles on the side.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: ShadowGorrath on August 09, 2008, 02:26:51 am
I meant the previous OGame battleship! Not the new super coloured one.
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Hades on August 09, 2008, 01:10:36 pm
You could, you-know provide a link for people who do not know what O-Game is. :P
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: Droid803 on August 09, 2008, 01:14:05 pm
http://www.ogame.org/
Title: Re: Concept ships
Post by: ShadowGorrath on August 09, 2008, 01:42:56 pm
It's in the EpicBlue skin as the Battleship. Heck, I'd post direct links to those images if I could right now. The Battleship and the Destroyer in the OGame EpicBlue skin are the best non-FS ships I have ever seen and someone really must model them!