USS Vavilov – Ingram class variant

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Federation, Star Trek, starfleet, Starship

First, I need to explain why I choose Vavilov as ship´s name: Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) was a pioneering Soviet botanist, geneticist and explorer who identified the world’s centers of origin for cultivated plants and established the first major global seed bank. Dedicated to ending hunger, he traveled to 64 countries to collect plant samples but died of starvation in a Soviet prison. As a proponent of Mendelian genetics, he ran afoul of Trofim Lysenko, a pseudo-scientist supported by Stalin. Vavilov was arrested in 1940 and died of starvation in prison in 1943.

Now, about the ship itself: Many Star Trek fans know the non-canon Ingram-class, designed by Todd Guenther. From old games, drawings, and renderings, there are many incarnations of it floating across various sites and blogs.
Set in the TMP movie era, the Ingram is one of the most famous non-canon starships in the Star Trek universe. However, I have never found a high-poly version of it, so I decided to try my hand at creating one and giving it my personal touch, changing details throughout. Here is where I am with it now:

Akula Class MK-III

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Federation, Star Trek, starfleet, Starship

Many of Star Trek fans know the non-canon Akula Class. From old games, drawings, renderings… there are many incarnations of her floatting in several sites and blogs. Sitting in the TMP movie era, the Akula is one of the most famous non-canon starships from Star Trek Universe.

After I watched Star Trek – Picard series, in which you can see the new Stargazer and the Enterprise-G, I had an ideia… Why not an Akula Class in that timeframe? What that ideia in mind, I took Marc Bell´s Enterprise mesh (with his permission) and begun to build a kitbash, adding my own objects to give her the configuration I imagined. So, here it goes the MK-I (from old games) along with my MK-III version:

2023 – Ainu Class Mesh Download

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cheyenne class, Federation, Mesh download;, Star Trek, Starship

This is the non-canon AINU Class, a variant of the Cheyenne Class.

Everytime I load the file, I find something that can be improved… By this way, I would work on it forever… So, time to let her go. Probably many of you can improve it.

The original mesh was built by Kenneth Leishman in Maya, and I converted it to 3ds max 2016. In the process, I rebuilt part of the objects, added the fake rooms, the arboretum, the conference room and redid insignias and other little things. This conversion was released with Kenneth´s permission. If you improve it or convert it to other software, share it with the comunity.

Please, read the readme file and post your renderings. We would love to see them.

Download 3DSMAX2016, FBX and OBJ versions here: https://www.4shared.com/folder/lqwoM-o2/_online.html

2022 – Updates are coming!

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cheyenne class, Star Trek, Starship, TNG

Yes, I´m back one more time. The pandemic time was one of the reasons that lead me back to this hobby. I´m playing with Studio Max again, revolving my wips folder. Here it goes a conversion (Maya to Max) that I started in 2008, the USS Ainu, a Cheyenne class variant (Star Trek TNG). I´m slowly making progress again. The original mesh was buit by Keneth Leishman.

USS Ainu – Cheyenne class variant

A sister to the Apollo Class

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apollo class

After to see an unused concept pod for the nebula class posted in my thread over Trekbbs forums, I´m thinking about a sister to the NCC-10570 – USS Apollo.

Why not the NCC-10575 – USS Artemis? The sister will have a pod based upon that unused concept, and a “cave” in the secondary hull, like the Excelsior. What do you think?

Apollo Class MK-III – Update

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apollo class, Federation, starfleet

Here we go! Naceles and pods completed, but bridge and neck are still placeholders. After to build them, will be the time to add details. 🙂

Apollo Class MK-III

I´m back to her one more time.

Since the old days of the Wolfpack group (1998), I always admired the Apollo Class buit by Eric Peterson in the old 3ds Max 2. Along the years I tryed to built her several times. In all of them until now, I got frustated. After many years of abscence and, after to see the brilliant work of Marc Bell, Chris Kuhn, Alexander Klemm, Gidian Plebuch, Gerard Duffy and others, I tought it was the time to try again, and for the first time I believe that I can do some justice to Eric Peterson. Of course that I can´t compare my wip with the masters pointed above, but it isn´t that bad this time, right? So, here it goes the pics. Naceles, sensor pod, weapons and bridge are just placeholders for now, but I´m confident that I can build them with no problems.

Apollo Class – MKII

Well… again, a loooong time has passed since the last update in this thread…

Familly and job takes precedence and don´t let me to much free time. Anyway, I´m playing with sketchup again, trying one more time to build a new incarnation of the old Apollo Class, a ship designed by Eric Peterson loooong time ago (1998), when the Wolfpack team still walked on Earth. 🙂 Since my mesh isn´t totally true to the original version, I will call it an MKII. In the current stage, the sensor/weapons pod and naceles are still placeholders which I got from and old low polly from Bridge Commander game, but the main shape is there. Still a lot to do:

USS Theodore update

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Theodore

Painting of the hull was changed a bit. I also added the escape pods and numbered the ship. To understand how to copy move and align a object to a surface in Sketchup was a difficult mission, and it took me a lot of time to do it the right way. But I´m pretty sattisfed in the end, cause I drew just one escape pod and the rest of them were a “copy, move, align” job made in a fast way. 🙂

USS Theodore update

I wasn´t so happy with the previous impulse engines, so, I changed them. Looks better? I also put some details and colors over the shuttlebay doors.