The Axanar Freighter from “Fight or Flight”.
Continuing on our tour of Local Group merchant marine vessels, this John Eaves design.
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Looks like the Axanar freighter from “Fight of Flight”
http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/the-lost-ships-of-episode-003-fight-or-flight/
Thank you, Harry! Adjusting text now!
Your other option is to slap this on a milk carton with, “Have you seen me?”
Ships like this always make me think of the Cardassian freighter. Do you have any background on that one?
I really like this ship. I’d love to see a version with the cargo modules removed. Empty, as it were.
I had never noticed all the Axanar writing on the hull of the ship, cool additional detail!
I liked both this and the larger Axanar ship. They looked very much like they were from one big happy fleet. And an alien one at that, though they still had instantly recognisable functions.
Is there any chance of digging up more examples of the written script?
I really liked the 2 Axanar ships, they were a nice departure from regular Trek ships I felt, you could easily picture them in the BSG Fleet, or in a Star Wars convoy or even in Starship Troopers. This is most likely due to the very functional design, the 2 Axanar ships are definaltly in my top favorites for ‘alien of the week’ ships
Hats of the John for the design, and hats off on the model, very cleanly executed.
Looks small to me. Is that a door on the forward end? Looks like it might be two doors.
More cool freighter-ness!
My dad flew overnight freight for most of his career. I love the space frieghters!
More please.
It looks small to me, too, but it doesn’t appear that John had to use the direction arrows for that supervisor on this one.
It does seem like it may have gone either way from the side.
This is a very interesting design, which I didn’t appreciate earlier. I like it best of the three freighters we’ve seen up close so far. Loving the angular look.
I think I prefer this one to the previous two freighters we’ve seen recently. I think the attitude of this is more aggressive looking with it’s classic sloped nose and big tail design (like a Lambo! haha!!) – The eight year old in me responds well to that!
Doug – Cool renders? You know they are!
A strong utilitarian design. I liked its partner ship, too. But the bad guy ship from that episode…wow!
This sorta reminds me of Wing Commander (the games, not the movie…)
Yeah, I’m the same. This design reminded me of the Carrack and Lancer designs from Star Wars.
More merchant navy stuff, this time alien merchant navy…Cool.
I really like this design of John’s, and it is a superb cg model.
More freighter/cargo vessel goodness…and the merchant navy theme continues
Mark
Hi Doug,
Very nice looking ship, I have a request for you or maybe John Eaves: has there ever been a Romulan Space Station? I don’t recall ever seeing one, but was one ever put on paper on CAD?
Thanks and keep the eye candy coming!
Another great contribution and we appreciate the excellent views here. Only through this medium can we get a change to grasp the level of detail and design process.
Thanks.
BTW: Do you have anything on the little freighter/Transport shown in STIII? I always liked the make-shift elements that contrasted so well with Starfleet clean [back in the days when Starfleet was clean!].
The DC
Great stuff! One of my favorites from the series, together with its sister design.
Again, I love the freight train look and feel of these freighters. I always pictured the frontier of the West being connected by trains and it seems fitting that initially, the frontier of space was connected in a similar manner!
This model seems to have a Pierre flavor to it, but I may be wrong!
Thats a really awesome design.