Ugly ship designs

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:16 pm

Wow. That reaches whole new levels of unimaginativity. I mean, I know I couldn't design a way out of a wet paper bag, but at least ideas I do come up with are a little original!

celeritas · Post by **celeritas** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:06 am

DarkOmen wrote:Man this has got to be one of the worst.

Its supposed to be an Enterprise F idea. I know my own design borrows very heavily from the E-E... but this guy didnt even try to make a new ship!! He took the nacelles and rotated them 90 degrees!!

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/ ... sef_pr.jpg

wow, if you didn't tell me, i wouldn't have even noticed the 90 degree rotation...

Bernd · Post by **Bernd** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:58 am

Some more things to consider:

It doesn't excuse unimaginative ship designs, but the people working for the show created ugly kitbashes on a few occasions too, most notably the dreadful DS9TM ships:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/ds9tm.htm

Another thing to take into consideration is that it is predominantly young fans who come up with kitbashed ships, just when they discover the basic functions of Windows Paint. My own efforts at the age of twelve weren't really better.

But the argument that is most frequently brought forward is "I don't have anything other but Paint". This is a lame excuse because there are so many more advanced and still free drawing programs.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:10 am

Even in Paint, with enough patience you can still produce an innovative design. It takes time and you have to be prepared to adujust it pixel-by-pixel, but it can can be done.