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thought I'd put some of those new designs I have to use, and work on my scene building. this took more time and tweaking than you would think considering getting everything to rough scale, getting rid of render artifacts, and the pitch back shadows Blender tends to generate...significantly more difficult that a simple Matte Painting style background The good news is that can remove or insert new objects with great ease now that the base environment is created...although right now my poor laptop is in the corner rocking back and forth whimpering pathetically.
Spinward transport and RHI transport are two companies I use in my campaigns. They Supply logistics, freight, and charter services from their base of operations On Jewel. to show off a few of my creations I went head and created this scene of the Spinward Transport headquarters adjacent to the starport on Jewel. It has offices,workshops, parking for smaller starships and company small craft, as well as lodgings, for crewmen, employees,clients, and guests.
The company runs several large 200 ton freighters, as well as many lighter freighters including the Subsidized merchant, and the two Light duty Packet traders next to the far trader.
Other craft on the scene are two Akula Class armed escorts, 100 ton jump capable high-speed escorts fitted with a single particle barbette as a fixed centerline gun. They aren't designed for a defensive fight, their only purpose is to scare off a casual attack with their heavy weapons, and get between the ship they are escorting and deal damage while the cargo ship makes a retreat, or provide support fire with their turret weapons.
The Light Freighter/Packet ship was a designed I created a while back. It has a crew of two, a single stateroom for the crew, and the rest is cargo space, engines, and fuel tankage. I decided to use the far trader illustration I created as the new look of the previous box-shaped deign. It carries small cargo in a similar fashion to "Hot-Shot" trucking companies. these provide unscheduled high priority transport for small cargos on a per trip basis. Other uses would be for logistics support, mail runs, and supply transport
The small shuttle looking craft are personal transports they carry a small number of passengers either planetside, or from surface to orbit. They are basically liaison aircraft or fast transport for executives who need to travel on a moments notice.
Neat the cargo containers you can see a couple of loader bots getting ready to load cargo onto the Privately owned Far Trader in center screen.
The ships are to scale, as best i can manage considering the odd shapes of a few of them and the new far trader image is designed using the available deck plans for it's dimensions. it is fully compatible with existing deck plans
You can see a larger version Here. http://sta.sh/01dmg68w4684