Pioneering Spirit by RobCaswell

Foomandoonian's uberkewl Pioneer design (converted to Poser by Maddymanx via Foundation3D.com). Exploring a newly charted nebula tendril, the Pioneer prepares to receive one of its shuttle craft back from a remote sensing mission.

Thanks to Drell-7 for inspiration [link]

DAZ Studio render. Background by Moonchilde-stock [link]

Evohunter7 Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2011

I love it, can we get a 3/4 profile shot?

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2011 Professional General Artist

In time

TTLee Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011

i meant the USS hathaway wait was it at one the USS stargazer or was it just the same class ship

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2011 Professional General Artist

They may have been the same class...

(asks Mr. Google)

Yup. Same beastie.

TTLee Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2011

maybe

TTLee Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011

i really miss the USS hataway i wish they could have devoted an episode to it that would have been my favorite episode. oh and hows it been going admiral Acrass

AbaKon Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional Writer

Sweet. I think that about covers it.

thefirstfleet Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011

I love the light trails!

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

Thanks. It's a bit stylized/comic-bookie, but it does lend a certain graphic "zest" to the shuttle, which would otherwise just be hanging there.

Euderion Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Looks very good. I like the classic style Constellation!

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

Similar in idea, but I really like the details on this craft better. There's more thought in it. It's a very nice model, too

Deepblu742 Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011

I like it, each pair of nacelles appear to be spaced apart a bit wider. Always thought the Constellation's were a bit to cramped together...wider equals larger warp field coverage?

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

I think wider just means better handling in tight turns

celticarchie Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011

I can't say she's a favourite ship design, but in the hands of my ol' buddy. She comes alive.

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

I wasn't initially thrilled by her, but after seeing Drell-7's fine view I felt compelled to give her a go. It's a design that grows on you, I think. Lots of nifty details.

celticarchie Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011

I think I had a bad conversion day with it once, but now it's been done for us. Maybe a revisit...

gazzatrek Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

'gorgeous colours as always..'real sense of scale too..'nice!

gazzatrek Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

I played with the lensing to try and get a better sense of scale from it, so it's gratifying that you noticed!!

gazzatrek Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Zhaanman Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

She's a True Beauty if I've ever seen one!!! Awesome look to the area of space and shuttle flight for active look to the piece very cool stuff!!

Zhaanman Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

She's a True Beauty if I've ever seen one!!! Awesome look to the area of space and shuttle flight for active look to the piece very cool stuff!!

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

Thanks

karanua Featured By Owner Sep 13, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'm very glad to see you didn't go the way of many 3d artists these days and light the registries. Just out of interest on the poser version are the nacelles lamps animated textures too?

Great pic btw would make an excellent scenario cover.

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

Glad ya like!
No, I don't think the nacelle caps are animated... though maybe you could make them work as such. I didn't pay a lot of attention to that.
I actually like the lit registry effect, but I rather doubt that ships would run through deep space with those lights on. But even then... well, I'm more of a TOS purist

Ptrope Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I would guess that in an era where interstellar craft are common, commercial ships would probably light their registries all the time, military craft under similar rules as are currently used. Personally, I think self-lit registries are a lot more sensible than spotlights shining out over irregular hull geometries - the registries could be a thin film of electro-fluorescent material that would only require a minute charge to light (and in the dark of space, wouldn't really need to be very bright to be visible). Of course, studio lighting and modeling technology hadn't gotten far enough in the '60s to do that, so it's 'canon,' and now it would be CGI, anyway, and a dead cinch to accomplish (and it appears they did exactly this with the Alliance ship in Serenity

RobCaswell Featured By Owner Sep 14, 2011 Professional General Artist

Well when ya got 430 people in a tin can flyin' around on extended space journeys, ya gotta give 'em something to do so they won't be idle and inclined to mutiny or spray graffiti in the turbo lift. So I figure the Captain could just station some crew members on the hull w/ ye ole mag boots and a flashlight where they can wave it around on the hull registries as needed.