Klingon C-8 Dreadnought WIP

[Atrahasis]

Every depiction of the C-8 I have ever seen has been butt-ugly, maybe because you need to make a ship that looks like a D-7 on steroids, but if you mess with the basic hull you break its gracefulness. You need to find the right combination of wider and taller. This is my preliminary foray into a design that can represent this class.

As always, suggestions are welcome!

[Klingon Fanatic]

;D

Awesome.

I just hope we don't have to wait a year to play her, LOL!

KF

[zerosnark]

With the B1 floating around. . .you need to make sure that the C8/C9 actually has CHARACTER, as opposed to being the old D7 on steroids.

[Atrahasis]

The problem is coming up with a design for this ship that doesn't make you toss your cookies, because as I said before this ship suffers from very bad depictions. Right now I'm thinking to keep it as flat as possible, because flatness seems to be the norm for Klingon designs. Makes sense from a tactical viewpoint because it'd be harder to hit when it rolls and jinks and weaves.

[anduril]

Nice A.

These new klingon images are calling to me. Wanting me to make a Klingon style nacelle just because.

Klingons doing Jinkies... interesting thought.

[Atrahasis]

Hey A!

It's great that we can still inspire each other after all these years.

[redsharif]

Great work. Can't wait to get my hands on this baby.

[zerosnark]

I wish we could lose the Nacelle Stuck on the Boom paradigm. Always seemed to be dorky. Also. . I am pretty sure we don't want the third engine at the same elevation as the wing engines. Should it not be higher or lower? Does the Nacelle have to be *identical*?

[Johanobesus]

I wonder if, instead of a third nacelle, you could place a dome under the the hull in the convex space as on the K'tinga. That might make room for a larger reactor or warp core. I've always felt that thrid nacelles look kind of dopy.

[StressPuppy]

For my homeworld mod version of the c-8 i went with the upscaled d-7 look. As you can see from the screens it is heavily influenced by atra's c-7. Like i said my modeling skills left much to be desired back then so forgive the low res.

I lengthened the main hull instead of widened it, and brought the 3rd nacelle further back to where it is closer to the 2 main nacelles. It is still attached to the boom, and goes with the boom upon separation. I re-enforced the neck. Made the upper command deck smaller, but identical to the lower. Added a 2nd sensor dome, and 2 upper disruptor hard points. I did c-7 style impulse engines, and added a 2nd hanger bay in place of the original impulse engine. The 2 box's on the upper wings are the missile (drone) launchers.

From the top down this ship looks almost identical to the D-7 except it is longer, and slightly wider. I was going to split up the command pod like some of the ENT concept art, but i lost interest in the model when the HW mod died out.

I dont like the "wider" concept. To me that removes the "sleekness" of klingon designs. Here are some shots of my old model. I think the c-7 style is the way to go with the c-8/9, but im sure atra knows what he wants





One of these days ill rebuild this ship, just havent had the motivation to do so yet.

EDIT: Doh! talk about necromancy didnt see the date on this topic

[modelsplease]

Please release your c-8 for SFC Stress Puppy. SFC 1 players and people with older machines will love ya for it. Besides it's a nice ship. Better then I can do at this moment LOL. As for Atra's...'Nuff said it's beautiful.

[StressPuppy]

There are perfectly good SFB style C-8's out there on battleclinic. and SFCfiles that will work fine in SFC1 without much work. This version of mine shown here will never be released. It is way too low quality. I just displayed it here to show atra an example.

In the future do not "pressure" me to release stuff. I don't react well to it.

[zerosnark]

I for one like the longer hull of this C8.

Thinking more, I like the idea of the C7 as a D7 on steroids. The dreadnaught, however, should almost be a radical departure from the D7. It is, afterall, a different class of ship.

Is it MEANT to be sleek and graceful like a cruiser, dancing and weaving to avoid fire? Or is it meant to fly down the middle and blast the enemy into oblivion while laughing at their paultry attempts to breach the Immense shields?

I played that tactic very gracefully in SFB in a C8B vs a pair of Lyran CA's. Using plotted movement, they completely misjudged my intended speed. . .and instead of one ship hooking to my rear, the turn ended with one ship dead ahead at range two and the other ship 5 hexes further out. When asked why I was moving so slowly, I merely replyed "So I could charge all my WEAPONS". There was not much left of the closer Lyran CA at the end of that turn.

[Bernard Guignard]

The one think I like about the C8 -C 9 Dreadnought was the Double bridge pod I could see one as being a main bridge while the other being a flag bridge and combination tactical information center. Keep up the great work Atra.

;D

[redsharif]

klingonfanatic said:

;D

Awesome.

I just hope we don't have to wait a year to play her, LOL!

KF

;D