USAS Edison

proditor · January 25, 2010, 07:16:45 PM

Snag number one.

Today at work a PC fell off a rack, pointy end first, into the edge of my foot. No break, but the doc said I did darn near as much damage as possible without breaking it. So I'm on horse tranquilizers and I have to keep off it for the next 3 days. The crutches suck, and while I'm on the meds, my wife has forebade me to go near my Dremel (Which is wise, I'd sand off a finger and probably giggle. Percocet is strong...)

So I'm going to go back to paper to design a torpedo rack, and...

A ram.

I want something like this: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/virtualheritage/project3.html

Sauragnmon · January 25, 2010, 07:19:43 PM

Ouch, that just sucks man. I know what percocet can do to the mind, I had to take them two at a time once for dry socket - wow, my world did funky things for those two weeks, and I didn't do much of anything. Harsh stuff, good idea to stay away from the dremel and stuff.

Ramming is always a beefy idea, have to admit, with the bow design of the Iowa, it might be interesting to design it. You could always turn the bow into a bit more of a double-prong shearing ram so to speak, like a V blade along the bow form.

Weaver · January 25, 2010, 07:38:48 PM

Oooh, bad luck.....

Right decision to stay away from power tools: there are days when I realise I'm "dangerous to user" with a craft knife and that's without drugs....

Suggestion: instead of a ventral hanger, why not have shuttlecraft (or whatever) landing on the fantail and dropping down into a hangar below it:

Fit an extended deck on top of the exisiting AAA bases: the slight separation from the main deck would reinforce the idea of it being a "special" landing deck.

Cut out the (oval?) elevator and put it straight onto the main deck (i.e. slightly recessed relative to the flight deck) which would give the impression of a deep hangar without actually having to build it.

Make the landing deck shaped like stylized bird tail feathers: it would match your wings and reinforce the "clockwork bird" character.

Build up the barbette for the aft electro-cannon so that it superfires anything parked on the flight deck.

jcf · January 25, 2010, 11:14:16 PM

Ahh yes, nothing says 19th century quite like an iron ram-bow.

http://www.cityofart.net/bship/rambow.html

Great pre-Dreadnought site, navigation is a little clumsy but worthwhile.
http://bigbadbattleships.com/

Mossie · January 26, 2010, 03:43:35 AM

Ouch. Well, enjoy the drugs, if you can come up with this without them, just think of the possibilities!

How about combining the two weapons into a Torpedo Ram? There was a flirtation with them in the ironclad era, it's also got some sci-fi credentials, HMS Thunderchild in War of the Worlds was a Torpedo ram. I think Polyphemus' ram would work well with your classical style, maybe have some smaller strakes over & under?

HMS Polyphemus

USS Intrepid

pyro-manic · January 26, 2010, 08:55:34 AM

proditor, are you familiar with Battelfleet Gothic?

Caveman · January 26, 2010, 09:57:38 AM

wow!
steam punk your heart out

proditor · January 26, 2010, 11:27:41 AM

Quote from: pyro-manic on January 26, 2010, 08:55:34 AM
proditor, are you familiar with Battelfleet Gothic?

Very actually, I was one of the writers for FFG's Rogue Trader RPG.

That and Star Blazers were both BIG inspirations on this build so far.

Steel Penguin · January 26, 2010, 11:51:55 AM

proditor, i was going to say that im looking forward to this muchly, and to say to have a look at the musical work of abney park as an insperation
http://www.abneypark.com/
or the song airship pirate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPH1OoTobtk
( i cant find the fan vid that had lots of steampunk on it straight off)
then that last little comment had me going "ineresting verrrry interesting"

grats on getting the game published and any news on the 3rd set of the trilogy that was mentioned?

proditor · January 26, 2010, 12:31:59 PM

Well, I can say it is currently in editing, as one of my friends is in fact, editing it.

Beyond that, I can't say much other than if you go with GW's planned releases for 40k RPG's, you'll probably be right. I'm not writing part of this one (alas) but I am hoping to get some more work on the RT stuff.

proditor · January 26, 2010, 02:35:48 PM

Oh, and I just found this today. LIVE ACTION STAR BLAZERS!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkh786EbSg

proditor · February 03, 2010, 12:16:58 PM

*whistles innocently*

Picked up something to turn this into a diorama.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370327205363&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

What's a good Aethership for if not to interdict bat-winged pirates? Am I right?

Weaver · February 03, 2010, 04:06:45 PM

LOL - Hell yes!

proditor · February 04, 2010, 11:22:00 AM

Ugh.

PSR, PSR, PSR.

Talk to everyone in spring.

proditor · February 22, 2010, 09:10:53 PM

*Grumbles*

Airbrushing seems to have a bit of a learning curve...

Anyway, got some paint on it, now investigating whether my technique will come along quickly enough, or if I should go brush and rattle can for now.

EDIT: Random question; If you were going to have a big flying battleship that could interdict enemy ships, you'd want some special Marines for boarding and stuff, yes? Say a platoon of maybe...US Rocket Marines with jet packs, helmets, and tommy guns and shotguns for forcing the issue.

This thing is taking on a life of it's own.