Battletech's Aegis-class Heavy Cruiser

[AtomicBoboli]

I decided to shelve my star destroyer project for the time being to work on something more unique. As far as I know, no one has built anything from Battletech - it is popular for its mech combat, not its space craft. However, some of Loose's 3057 artwork is pretty damn awesome, so I decided to make an 1:2 scale Aegis-class Heavy Cruiser.

I'm borrowing a bit of internal design methodology from another player. The ship will eventually be built with the internals such as the engines, the K-F drive, the fusion reactors and the massive naval autocannon batteries. Then, the decks will be configured around the internals.

The jury is still out whether or not I'll be making the broadsides turrets or static weapons with side-mounted weapon computers. It'll take a while to navigate the decks to get to side-mounted computers, since they cannot benefit from cockpit cameras.

Also undetermined is the paint scheme. I've got several options: I'm tired of white since my star destroyer, so that eliminates the normal Word of Blake and Comstar schemes. Clans are right out for personal reasons. SLDF is probably the big ticket.

For some reason, the post refuses to scale the images properly. Oh well.

[EDIT: To reduce the horror of this topic's dimensions, I'm posting only the most recent screenshots, and instead linking the album for the historical archives:

http://imgur.com/a/g1N50#0

It'll contain all the images that were removed from this topic.]

 

[Brevillance]

beautiful and its not even done.

 

[AtomicBoboli]

Working on the engines. Putting doohickies all over them to make them look industrial.

http://i.imgur.com/ZB7dvYT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jPD9Ark.jpg

 

[Brevillance]

those engine details are sweet man, keep it up. Cant wait to see it all finished :D

 

[Zyrr]

Really looks nice, but heavy cruiser? Really? I fear to see their definition of a titan.

 

[AtomicBoboli]

Finished the other two engines, and the K-F drive. The ship currently has 2M e/sec and 1.2B total storage. Need more power, as the engines drain the batteries like whoa.

http://i.imgur.com/H0h9qcU.jpg

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[Hierarch]

When you are comeplete would you like to become part of my Faction. Our name is The Company.

Bests,

-H

 

[Darth_Ato]

God damn oO those engines are just awesome dude !! :D

 

[Brevillance]

damn.

 

[Chosen Mimes]

this is gonna be huge!

I love the details on the engine

 

[AtomicBoboli]

Work has shifted to 2:00 to midnight, and It\'ll cramp my style for a week. Anyways, I\'ve decided on a ComStar paint scheme. I\'m loyal like that. I need to break up the white with other colors, so it\'ll be a relatively slow painting process. The hull is at least 3 blocks thick, and in the sloped portions it is much thicker. The outside portions of the White Shark missile launchers are done, at least. There\'s no actual weapon in-place yet, however.

Also working on the naval autocannon magazines. I\'ll be putting in a hatch in the rear which will allow the magazines to pulled out and fresh ones inserted during pier-side ops. They use a liquid propellant, so the propellant tanks will be located further in-board. I\'ll also need to install brakes on the loading rails. Catwalks and such will be added in last.

http://i.imgur.com/XXO9Z7p.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pV37c9C.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FvSz2dO.jpg

 

[Riftmaster]

This is insanely cool.

 

[Riftmaster]

Is insanely huge, in many cases, if memory serves.

 

[AtomicBoboli]

Finished the shape of the first tower. The second will be going on the starboard side. I\'ll probably be putting a P- or a salvage cannon array. Most of the work is on the inside armor layer, so I can start putting in more internal items.

I also finished the bridge, so I can start putting in weapons. There are 8 massive White Shark missile launchers in 4 groups. Bridge needs gravity and lighting, which will be happening eventually.

http://i.imgur.com/UOmjh4T.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6Nyhsay.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UZ88I8z.jpg

 

[Directfix]

WOW.. Good work...

 

[AtomicBoboli]

Finished putting most of the armor on the dorsal portion of the hull. Worked a little bit on the paint scheme, redoing the blue piping up forward, and Comstar emblematics on the dorsal tower. Also added lighting and gravity to the bridge.





The bridge consoles do not have all the computers they will eventually require, because I\'m still not sure if I want to use 4 SD-BB computers still.