The Stegodon

[eyvind]

Seems there's a contagion going around, perhaps it's limited to our Skype chat, and it's causing people to stumble down to the shipyard. I've caught it too, now, and I daresay I'm stumbling more than the rest.

A while ago I began becoming increasingly aware of two gaps in available ships.

Firstly, it doesn't feel like there are enough Liners out there. Some houses have their own liners, and of course the specialized Slave and Prison Liners, but for everyone else there's just the generic Luxury Liner. Wouldn't it be nice if each House had their own liner, just like they now have their own high-end transports?

Secondly, there isn't any DSE explorer ship. Kusari has the gunboat type explorer, I think the Zoners have some sort of explorer, the IMG have the Argus and probably some other one, and I recently heard about some other small exploration craft (Bretonian?). It is quite odd that DSE doesn't have any exploration ships. They built the LCC Edison and Einstein, the epitome of exploration ships, in the dawn of human life in Sirius. Now we have the Mastodon, which is the transport modification of those exploration ships, but what ever happened to those exploration ships?

Enter the Stegodon!

Keep in mind that this is the first model I have ever created, and though I've started over on this one at least 5 times now, I'm sure it doesn't exhibit great design choices. Not only is it very rough, it's also nowhere near being complete. It's missing a bridge, half the front section, and a dozen other large and small parts (I marked where I as thinking of putting the most obvious ones).

Originally I thought I should simply modify Jinx's Mastodon model, but that turned out to be too difficult, so I started from scratch (at least 5 times, I mentioned that right?). Doing it from scratch also let me learn as I went along, which was beneficial.

Imageshack:


TinyPic (1600x1600): http://i49.tinypic.com/2rwalp0.png

Photobucket (1024x1024): http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad73/Ey...on19Collage.png

[color=#ff0000]EDIT: The below images are outdated, see the most recent post to be sure you're looking at the most recent images.

Top - Orthographic


Right - Perspective


Right - Orthographic, with notes


Right Rear - Perspective


Rear - Perspective


Right Front - Perspective


Rear - Orthographic

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