CT Only: Fixing the Type S (Sulieman)

[Spinward Flow]

That's so wrong AMAZING!

 

[Grav_Moped]

That's so wrong AMAZING!

Thanks! The angle is really close to correct, and the difference gets taken up in the keel fold angles.

Would not be all surprised if the design came from someone looking at an actual paper airplane and going, "hmmn..."

 

[Condottiere]

Now that I think of it, two paper airplanes, keel to keel, and something to seal the back.

And that would be three dimensional.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Now that I think of it, two paper airplanes, keel to keel, and something to seal the back.

And that would be three dimensional.

Might not fly well, though.

Shouldn't be too difficult to whip something up out of cardstock, especially with an automated mat cutter (Cricut, for example).

Or 3D print it, but that's been done already.

As a joke, I half considered adding an underslung canard and low-aspect-ratio upper wing. You know, the parts of the deck plan that don't fit into the hull...

 

[Condottiere]

Extendible aerofins.

You sacrifice five percent hull volume, but get plus two to piloting in an atmosphere.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Extendible aerofins.

You sacrifice five percent hull volume, but get plus two to piloting in an atmosphere.

It just clicked.

You're describing the paper airplane version of the Mongoose isometric drawing deck plans!

 

[Condottiere]

I can't recall those.

Nominally, the Kinunir class falls into this configuration.

 

[Grav_Moped]

I can't recall those.

I was trying to be funny. If the "aero-fins' are the plans of the other deck, the isometric drawing then looks like a paper airplane.

Nominally, the Kinunir class falls into this configuration.

Yeah, kind of. More difficult to get the rounded off tip of the nose when making a paper airplane version, though.

 

[whulorigan]

The Project I was talking about, above:
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Alas, it's (literal) cut-and-paste. The part with the outer forward corners of the cargo hold and air/raft bay, landing gear, and front part of the common area will end up with white diagonal strips instead, because they're in the unprintable sheet margins.

I've got scans, but they'll need to be seriously adjusted to get them to fit a sheet of paper correctly.

As you might expect, it's a half-decent paper airplane.

OK Grav_Moped. You've got your work cut out for you:

• 20 ton Gig
• 100 ton Scout
• 100 ton Seeker
• 300 ton Gunned Escort (2 decks / print double-sided)
• 1200 ton Vanguard Cruiser (multiple-decks / origami)

 

[Spinward Flow]

{ notes how craft tends to "land like a lawn dart" }

Was that the inspiration for calling a variant the Impala IMPALER class?

 

[Grav_Moped]

{ notes how craft tends to "land like a lawn dart" }

Was that the inspiration for calling a variant the Impala IMPALER class?

*chuckle*

Nah, the Impala class is a Gazelle analog, not a Type S variant. Its drop-tank-less version, the Fieryo is a wedge shaped Pontiac with one of their pop-up headlights turrets perrenially stuck in the deployed position.

 

[Grav_Moped]

OK Grav_Moped. You've got your work cut out for you:

• 20 ton Gig
• 100 ton Scout
• 100 ton Seeker
• 300 ton Gunned Escort (2 decks / print double-sided)
• 1200 ton Vanguard Cruiser (multiple-decks / origami)

Getting the Kinunir to work with that rounded-off nose* is going to be tricky.

Multiple decks probably means strategic use of post-it note adhesive for disassembly, and ballast in the front.

Gig from the Gazelle, correct?

And part of the trick is that it has to be printed double-sided, since the front part of the deck plan is on the underside of the sheet before folding the corners up.

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* Seemed to be common in early designs, such as the Scout and Free Trader in the Snapshot deck plans.

 

[Grav_Moped]

The thing that struck me after staging that photo was that it reminded me of someone's work that was a 3D render of (I think it was a Type S) as though it was a model on a stand, atop a spread of Traveller rule books.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Alas, it's (literal) cut-and-paste. The part with the outer forward corners of the cargo hold and air/raft bay, landing gear, and front part of the common area will end up with white diagonal strips instead, because they're in the unprintable sheet margins.

I see two ways around this.

1. Start with a full-sized sheet, then crop the edges of the paper down to the printable area of the page before folding.

Or:

2. Extend the printed pieces of the aft part of the plan forward to overlap the blank border, then slice the paper to bring the overlap part up onto the upper surface. Use double-sided tape to hold the overlap together.

I think the latter would be more practical, but using tape irks the purist in me.

 

[whulorigan]

Gig from the Gazelle, correct?

Yes. Unless you think you are skillful enough with folding paper to make the one in Sup 9 Fighting Ships . . .

 

[Grav_Moped]

Yes. Unless you think you are skillful enough with folding paper to make the one in Sup 9 Fighting Ships . . .

<looks>
I see a few there that aren't impossible. Lots of tape needed.

One, though, is dead simple:
1. Take a piece of paper.
2. Crumple it up.
3. Throw it.

There's your Planetoid Monitor.

The same technique works for that ship in Expedition to Zhodane.

 

[Condottiere]

 

[whulorigan]

OK Grav_Moped. You've got your work cut out for you:

• 20 ton Gig
• 100 ton Scout
• 100 ton Seeker
• 300 ton Gunned Escort (2 decks / print double-sided)
• 1200 ton Vanguard Cruiser (multiple-decks / origami)

And if you are really feeling ambitious, there is always the 100,000 ton Sylea Class Battleship . . .

 

[Condottiere]

Never could figure out the combat mission/purpose of that, besides a convenient editorial add on.

 

[Grav_Moped]

And if you are really feeling ambitious, there is always the 100,000 ton Sylea Class Battleship . . .

Ooh, pretty.

Not sure I can get the printer to do deck plans at the necessary resolution to fit onto a folded 8.5x11 sheet.