3wirerick's Shipyard - The H.M.S Clear Skies

[3wirerick]

The H.M.S Clear Skies

 

Based off the Tempest Fleet Issue. I still think it needs a bit more work, maybe make it bigger to smooth out a few of the sharp edges but I'm don't with it for now, feels good to fly and it was a good entry to work my way into bigger ships. Just hope no pirates shoot the top or bottom wingy bits off  :D

 

 

 

Kestrel

 

My first none brick ship, still a little blocky but didn't turn out too bad. Can't wait till I get fighters, I may try to build a Thanatos.  ;)

 

 

 

 

 

*Edited added new ship.

[Lannik]

Should check out my Cormorant progress. Perhaps we could collaborate on some other Eve Online designs.

[Ertil87]

wow may we have a Xml of this plzz  its soo cool

[3wirerick]

wow may we have a Xml of this plzz  its soo cool

 

 

Sure http://pastebin.com/3suc4c9x just save it as an xml and put it in ships folder, have fun.

[LordHavoc]

Nice job!

 

We need a drake!

 

[Lannik]

I don't know. i just finished the shell on a Cormorant and i can tell you a Drake would be ungodly huge.

[Lannik]

My first none brick ship, still a little blocky but didn't turn out too bad. Can't wait till I get fighters, I may try to build a Thanatos.  ;)

 

 

We might be able to scale up the kestrel a bit to smooth it out

 

Nice job!

 

We need a drake!

 

I don't know. i just finished the shell on a Cormorant and i can tell you a Drake would be ungodly huge.

 

[3wirerick]

Yeah it is small, but I needed it to be relatively cheap and maneuverable. I was trying to add as few superfluous blocks as I could while still looking pretty good because it was for my survival character and he didn't have a lot of resources. I was trying to balance form with function while not breaking the bank.

[LordHavoc]

 

I don't know. i just finished the shell on a Cormorant and i can tell you a Drake would be ungodly huge.

 

Challenge Accepted!

I got some free time today, I'm putting together a drake now...only one problem; I built it backwards  ::)  :P

 

In the process of turning it around, but 11k blocks is slow to load

[Sp1eLmaNn]

Very N1 Work! Love it, small and sexy!

[FreddyAVO]

DO you have this in higher tier materials too?

[Lannik]

Yeah it is small, but I needed it to be relatively cheap and maneuverable. I was trying to add as few superfluous blocks as I could while still looking pretty good because it was for my survival character and he didn't have a lot of resources. I was trying to balance form with function while not breaking the bank.

 

The trick to manoeuvre ability is to use super thin thruster plates instead of cubes. Thrusters work on surface area instead of volume. Essentially build three heat sink shaped with scaled down to .025 and give the smallest gap possible. Look at the mandalorian ship for an example. You save weight and increase thrust tenfold

[3wirerick]

DO you have this in higher tier materials too?

 

I built this for a survival play I'm doing and I was just at titanium then, I have gotten to naonite and I just took the armour plates off the top and used the transform tool to switch the titanium generators, integrity fields, and power containers for naotine ones and added a shield block replacing a hull block I left in the middle. I also switched the small blocks connecting the engines to the main block with hyperspace cores giving me about 4+ jump range.

 

Yeah it is small, but I needed it to be relatively cheap and maneuverable. I was trying to add as few superfluous blocks as I could while still looking pretty good because it was for my survival character and he didn't have a lot of resources. I was trying to balance form with function while not breaking the bank.

 

The trick to manoeuvre ability is to use super thin thruster plates instead of cubes. Thrusters work on surface area instead of volume. Essentially build three heat sink shaped with scaled down to .025 and give the smallest gap possible. Look at the mandalorian ship for an example. You save weight and increase thrust tenfold

 

I did put some thin strips of thrusters around but I needed 1 block worth of length in the front there, at first I just put a hull block but I wanted a “useful” block there so I went with thrusters. Maybe I should have used a framework with thin thruster plates on the sides or a heat sink shape to save weight, I'm getting alot of ideas from the ships posted here, my second ship build should turn out better.  ;)

[3wirerick]

Yeah it is small, but I needed it to be relatively cheap and maneuverable. I was trying to add as few superfluous blocks as I could while still looking pretty good because it was for my survival character and he didn't have a lot of resources. I was trying to balance form with function while not breaking the bank.

 

The trick to manoeuvre ability is to use super thin thruster plates instead of cubes. Thrusters work on surface area instead of volume. Essentially build three heat sink shaped with scaled down to .025 and give the smallest gap possible. Look at the mandalorian ship for an example. You save weight and increase thrust tenfold

 

Just added a new ship Tempest Fleet Issue, I used the thin "heat sink" shaped thruster method and it worked out well to hide them and give tons of thrust in a small space. Thanks for the hint. ;)