Fer de Lance class DE

[Antony]

I have recently uploaded a labelled set of deck plans for the Fer-de-Lance class of destroyer escort

www.skaran.net/Banners/equipment/craft/deckplans/ferdelancepln.html

The plans were done to match the one illustration of the class I could find (Fighting Ships) which was an underside rear view. The stats were taken from the FF&S1 conversion I did.

 

[Jame]

Looks nice so far. Is there any way to enlarge it?

 

[flykiller]

The plans were done to match the one illustration of the class I could find

is that the only reason why the forward sphere has so much fuel in it?

 

[GypsyComet]

The original (from Supplement 9: Fighting Ships) IS almost half fuel (490 tons out of 1000), so that's all gotta go *somewhere*.

Looks good so far.

 

[mike wightman]

All I can see is a starfield background with the Fer-de-Lance title???

 

[Antony]

I will put an enlargement on the site, though it will be quite a large graphic.

Sigg, I dont understand why the graphic did not display on your system, they are standard jpg files.

There is actually some fuel on all decks of the sphere, basically between where the deck stops and the outer hull skin. The sphere itself was 22m in diameter.

 

[clair_rand]

Hey Wow! I've used the FDL as a sort of generic navy vessel since i first got the stats from 'Hard Times' *always* figured it as the flying coffin shape from 'Elite' since I've never seen an actual image of it. this looks somewhat better it has to be said.

Tis a brill deckplan

 

[mike wightman]

Arrg, I still can't see it.

Is there another link to it?

 

[Antony]

The current link is to the page it is on.

Try
www.skaran.net/jpgs/ferdelancepln1.jpg
www.skaran.net/jpgs/ferdelancepln2.jpg
To link directly to the graphics.

 

[mike wightman]

At last

Thanks Antony

It looks great!

By the way, I can't find a link from your home page to the Banners sector stuff???

 

[Antony]

I have just put up an enlargement of the plan, it will take a little bit of time to load.

At

www.skaran.net/Banners/equipment/craft/deckplans/ferdelancepln.html
Then click on the link for the enlargement

Or for Sigg try
www.skaran.net/jpgs/ferdelancelarge.jpg

The home page is at www.skaran.net

Press the key marked [Banners], though if you are having trouble displaying graphics perhaps the buttons are invisible too?

 

[mike wightman]

For some reason I can't see the first link, there is just a gap where the link should be. If I "reply with quote" then I can see the link.

I can view your home page, but guess what?

I can see the following buttons : Starkingdom Campaign, MegaTraveller, Traveller Landgrab, Gallery, What's New, Characters, To contact me, and there is a picture of a Satyr Class scoutship.

No Banners button???

The direct link to the large image works though, so thanks once again.

 

[Jame]

Now that it's enlarged, it looks DARN good. Way to go, Antony! I always wondered what these things looked like inside.

 

[Antony]

Sigg, all the buttons display ok on my machine, the Banners one is the 2nd from the top, immediately underneath the StarKingdom one, all the buttons are gifs so why some display and some don't you have me baffled.

Could it be to do with the javascript attached to them?

 

[mike wightman]

Nope, no Banners button.

When I look at "View" and then "source" in the toolbar there are a couple of error messages???

The fault is at my end, but I don't have a clue what's wrong.

Can you post a link to the first Banners page itself?

 

[Badbru]

Antony,
These look great and I also liked the Slipstream ones but, they don't print well. Left "as is" they are a bit too small. The slip stream only fills the top half of the page and too detailed and small for clarity.(Fer de lance is worse) Re sized to a clearer, in game usable view, they don't fit the page! Is there a size modifier in the software you're using to upscale these by only about half again?

Speaking of printing if I downloaded a few of the starships data pages from your site is there a way I can change the background vs text to black on white rather than your print unfriendly white on black?

 

[Antony]

The link to the start of the Banners section is
www.skaran.net/Banners/banners.html

Hope this helps

 

[Antony]

I find the simplest way to print pages where the arrangement is printer unfriendly (like mine) is to select the page into the clipboard, post it into a wordprocessor (Word works fine) then select all and change the text colour back to black. You can then also reformat it to fit standard size pages.

I take your point about the few other deckplans I will put enlargements up for those also.

Of course I could always change the stylesheet so that there is black text on a white background, but then what is a traveller site with no stars.

 

[Antony]

Funnily enough, when I do a print preview of the pages they do show black text on white background.

 

[Badbru]

Tried it by printing the Moth away boat. Sure enough it came out nice, black text on white without me having to do anything.

Now, what else do you have there I can use Muhaahaa