Brilliant class starship - more views!

Some more views of my Brilliant Class design.  I'm in the process of refining the model (built using Sketchup) with a view to pulling blueprints from it and building a physical model.

The overall shapes are where I want them to be.  Engine nacelles and pylons are complete except for minor greebles.  Engineering is next in line for attention as I detail the shuttle bay and cargo area.  Lots of tidy up needed to make sure fillets terminate properly and to add all of the surface detail needed on a Trek ship i.e. lifeboat hatches, windows, phaser arrays, transporter emitters etc.

This is probably the designs prettiest angle.

Brilliant Class Starship

The Brilliant Class Starship started life as a biro sketch done just after seeing 'Star Trek: Generations'.  As we all know, Picard's Enterprise D was destroyed at the end of that film and sketched out a few ideas for the Enterprise E.

Fast forward 17 years and the sketch turns up in a cleanout.  I look at it and think 'I should finish that'.  Here is the end result.

Chelon Creature Design

My first critter of the year.  I was noodling with the idea of evolved tortoise that could be used as a beast of burden.

Vulture concept

My first finished piece for 2013.  This is a design for an Optionally Manned Aerial Vehicle (OMAV) from sometime later this century.  I did the initial sketch on paper, built a study model in Sketchup and then did the painting in Photoshop.

T-Rex!

To kick off my new blog, I picked my favourite piece of 2012.  I did this in a two hour Photoshop frenzy at CDW Wellington during Greg Broadmore's session.