USS Hoshea Development Thread

[Caltern]

Didn't get as much done as I wanted to today. Had plenty of time eaten up by the program glitching out on me a lot. Still, I managed to build up a brand new nacelle structure (the old one I suspect corrupted the files it was in simply because I used a default command called "boolean" - and the old one was temporary anyways...) and tweak the sensor dome a bit. Nacelle is 50% done, but definitely better looking than its predecessor.

Next passes will be once more upon the secondary hull and the primary. Then the mission module. I want the rest of the ship looking as photogenic as the sensor dome before I move on to final phaser strip placement, pylons, doodads, and windows.

[BLZBUB]

doodads? Are those related to self-sealing stem bolts?

[Caltern]

hahaha, actually, the 3d animation term neatly fits as a definition for a self-sealing stembolt.

[Caltern]

The Goodson-class USS Alexander G. Weygers will figure into the Hoshea's first episode, The Way The Cats Jump.

Credit: model by Lucasus, based on a drawing by John Goodson for First Contact, with barely-modified materials by me

[Kheren]

Gives the impression of some kind of small field-clearing ship with it's huge twin deflector dish and centered pylons over a compact lower hull and what appears as a second set of bussard collectors each side of them. The darkened area between the dishes might be a hangar\cargo access... and there seems to be a rather large tractor beam emitter underneath.  The huge plates over the nacelles might also be deflectors to further protect them in hazardous areas... Mine sweeper? Space ice breaker\asteroid field sweeper? Nebula guiding\rescuing tug?

[Caltern]

I'll render up some other views later today. It's a far more interesting ship than I'd realized when I downloaded it.

[Caltern]

Here's the USS Goodson (registry is obviously incorrect) - She's apparently armed to the teeth with phasers. (12 dorsal, 11 ventral) Even those two cylinders on the pylons are labeled in the model as phasers (included in count). Black part between the two deflectors by contrast is just named "Neck".  The nacelle covers are just called M11 and M12, and have a texture named "Engine Pod". The M numbers might not mean anything, when something is cloned in 3DS Max, a number is added to the name of the clone. M12 might have been the 13th iteration of the clone, and for some reason M through M10 were discarded.

Amusingly, those phaser cylinders have phaser strips above and below them, stretching along the length of the cylinder. I'm tempted to just call them sensor booms, since it's a little silly to have phaser strips above and below a phaser cannon. What looked like a massive tractor beam mount is actually a torpedo launcher. Two tubes each front and back.

[Kheren]

Typical fanboy design; essentially just a big gunship with only pewpew in mind.

That being said, you can certainly use it and adapt/detail/define/equip it as you best see fit  for a story as a more useful vessel than just another Defiant.

[BLZBUB]

 I would be interested in its size comparison. As it was supposedly designed for a First Contact era ship, I would assume Goodson meant it to be probably larger than a  Constitution class.

[Caltern]

Another Hoshea render. This one's going up in the mission post. (And will be replaced once I have a better model!)