Liberty Ship

[Kanastrous]

Been playing around with a revamp of a spacecraft design from a project from a few years back, based upon the 'Star Wolf' series of novels. A 'Liberty Ship,' though in the books the Liberty Ships are not more-or-less expendable freighters but more-or-less expendable warships, instead. The design is mostly driven by the general description from the books, and by an early study model from the 90s by Mike Okuda.

Some sketches.













This is very literal digital model built off the original study model, back around 2000. The new one addresses most of what we didn't like, about this one...

[Thanas]

I have never read the books but the sketch looks lovely.

[Kanastrous]

Thanks - the books are pretty entertaining: David based the series on the idea of an interstellar war between humanity and its own remote descendants - colonists who have purpose-bred themselves to be 'more than human' - fought over vast distances with just-barely-adequate technology, so the flavor is very much taken from WWII in the Pacific. Submarine-like hide-and-seek warfare against what appears to be a perfectly vicious and implacable enemy...

[Kanastrous]

The First Novel

(Mods, it is all right to link to a commercial site like this?)

[Thanas]

yes.

[Action Avenue]

I like the detail you put into the sketches. Technical drawing, whether it be old school or on a computer, is always something to be admired. It's hard work, in my opinion.