1:1 USS Vengeance (Star Trek: Into Darkness)

[Deadlis]

So, I will sum up this long story in a few short sentences. Therimmer96 and I, becoming best buddies, decided that the Enterprise was not going to cut it in this war of ours that we have going on. So after much debate... we decided that the best warship we could design in the spirit of Star Trek would be the good old USS Vengeance. So that's what we're doing now. This is going to be a full 1:1 replica of the Vengeance from the movie. The saucer (which is all we have right now) is already the size of my JJprise that I build so this ship will end up at the mind-shattering ~1500m long black ball of death that is the Vengeance. :D

Yes, we did decide to make it black because we decided that gray was just too light to be a good hull type for a ship that's supposed to be this dark... We tossed around ideas of mixing black and grey to create the hull aztecing of the hull but we think that might look bad as well... We'll get back to you on what we end up doing for the texturing of the black blob when we get around to that phase of construction!

The saucer at its current stage. It's a little hard to see the details because we're nowhere near the stage of texturing the saucer and various other parts of the ship (that don't exist yet)

Another shot of the saucer under construction

A shot showing off the... pit..thing? Where the... bridge...stick..thing? sits inside!

And lastly, I got really sick of looking and black on black and decided to switch things up a bit and build the bridge! :D!

 

[doctorwhoknows]

Awesome! This thing better have OP weapons

 

[therimmer96]

Oh trust me when I say that weapons are the primary concern of this build. We started planning them before getting the framework down. They will change the definition of OP XD

 

[Mason]

Heres an idea I use when I want to create a constant laser of death.

X=AMC O=Anything else Top down pespective

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This creates a beam that can penetrate lots of armor and systems, while looking cool.

 

[Skylord_Quasar]

Can we have the download for the Enterprise now?

 

[NickehBoi]

Already can\'t wait till it\'s finished! I suspect this will be a server crasher definitely so no promise folks they are going to release a download but if one is planned, I\'ll definitely use it in my singleplayer world!

 

[BinHawkins2013]

Looks cool. Definitely going to be the right size. And the nice thing about this ship is there\'s not quite as many curves to deal with. Make sure you guys do a lot of research and maybe even see if you can find a few blueprints if possible, I don\'t know if they even exist for the ship yet, but you can look around.

Anyway here\'s hoping you guys get it looking good.

p.s. the bridge looks really good so far. Black was a very good choice with the hull.

 

[therimmer96]

You might think that no curves makes it easier, and so did we, but no. We started building this a week ago, and the main reason it has taken so long to get to this point is trying to do the angles. Some of them are just really weird shapes that we just struggle to map into blocks, even with tools too help us. This is going to be a long build

 

[therimmer96]

We thought about having amc beam weapons, but then we remembered that phaser beam arrays are not in startrek at this time. But dont worry, the weapons we will have are going to be stupidly powerful.

 

[therimmer96]

Deadlis has told me that enterprise has been shelved for now

 

[therimmer96]

After doing a few hours of work, Deadlis managed to do the main impulse exhausts, we got abit more of the hull done and we spoke about the weapon systems. I will post more pictures later.

 

[therimmer96]

Alot late I know, but meh, as promised pictures of the impulse exhausts



Also shows the progress made on the spine of the saucer

 

[therimmer96]

We have a problem with the stick thing where the bridge is too high, and face an issue. Do we stick wih the bridges current location and have the top quite flat, or do we tear it appart and lower it to make it canon?

This is what we have right now



So we are asking you for your opinion

 

[Deadlis]

To clarify rimmer\'s very tired point he made, this is basically what we need from you. As you can see the spine thing on the saucer is getting very tall, and while this does leave more room for shields and more hangar space, it starts to stick out like a soar thumb as you can see from some of the pictures. So here are the two options:

Option 1: We tear down basically the entire top of the saucer. Re-do the bridge and move it down so all the bridge window is looking at is the inside wall of the saucer (who designed this thing?) and make it more sleek and thus more canon.

Option 2: We invoke ye old \"artistic license\" and continue with what we\'re doing and make a slightly non-canon saucer that holds probably double the amount of shuttles in the saucer hangar bay (not to mention more shields!)

 

[Tangle]

Wouldn\'t the best actual warship to try would be the U.S.S Enterprise-D in a Mirror Universe format?

Also, I\'m going for option 2. Shuttles are awesome.

 

[Deadlis]

The alternate universe Enterprise-D (at least that\'s the one I\'m assuming you\'re talking about) has absolutely nothing on the Vengeance lol. We do have one of those planned for down the road... But those are designed to be escorts to the Vengeance (a full size Enterprise-D is like the size of a frigate compared to that behemoth)

Also, we have learned from the various images we\'re going through that the Vengeance has at least 5 effin\' shuttle bays (at least those are just the ones that we\'ve been able to count so far!) So while it wasn\'t originally intended to be a carrier... the Vengeance is going to end up being a giant 1500m long mobile base carrying probably upwards of 100+ auxilary craft xD

 

[FlyingDebris]

They say the ship is able to be piloted by a skeleton crew. So, for some reason, that translates to it being absolutely neccesary to have more shuttlecraft onboard the ship than crew. ^^

\"Humans are highly illogical.\" -Spock

 

[Deadlis]

You mean it\'s not standard procedure to give each member of the crew 15 different private shuttles to choose from depending on their mood?!?!

 

[Doodledibob]

Holy shamoley!!! I can\'t believe you are actually building this! Are you going to have torpedo silos on the side of the ship too? Also, I agree with you assesment of \"artistic license\".

 

[Deadlis]

It wont need a torpedo broadside because it will just have a ton of giant turrets that will rotate and scatter what ever happens to be looking at the Vengeance wrong across the sector :D