Heeheehee, shuttles. IOTD is a race line-up:
![[Image: goiDxVgl.png]](https://i.imgur.com/goiDxVgl.png)
Back to front, you have the Sea Angel's re-engined Type-7, the Bav-Nanya Drive Systems X-Shuttle, and the Motodyne Beartrap.
![[Image: LFwrVx6l.png]](https://i.imgur.com/LFwrVx6l.png)
The Beartrap with its drive ring closed and cockpit dome opened for a victory lap of the spectator stands. Come on, you can't tell me you didn't always want to hover around town in a convertible-top shuttlecraft! (The normal crew door on the back is open too, but that's just to make sure I don't block the pocket for it when putting equipment in the walls inside.) I haven't made the seat and control console yet, but you can see the top of the transporter effect volume dummy poking up through the companionway into the lower section of the craft, that being the one place big enough for it. Hey, it's a racing shuttle, be glad it has anything more than a cockpit! As is, I squeezed in a bunk, head, mini replicator, and enough cargo space to take some sharp threads for the victory party and to BRING HOME THE TROPHY! It's basically a love letter to 1950's rocket age/UFO cheese both in continuity and out. I can't decide if I like it better in British Racing Green as above or bright red... and it's pretty sharp in the shade of blue I used for the Sea Angel's trim stripe as well. Still needs a little more chrome, too, I intend to put a Motodyne badge and some more Deco stripes along the upper drive ring and to either side of the crew door at least, along with finishing the interior.
Aside from the bits already mentioned, you can see a couple of phaser strips, and the streamlined pods on either side of the ring have a sensor dome on top with two bussard collectors below and the impulse engines at the back, while the forward pod has a big ol' deflector dish ready to bounce graviton particle beams as the plot requires and also houses the warp core so all the antimatter is kept well away from inhabited spaces. The downside is of course that you have to EVA to get at it if mission events require repairs or modifications, but that's why the cockpit has both an opening dome and an inner door on the companionway, so it can act as an airlock if needed while the interior of the shuttle stays pressurized. If they hot-swap on the bunk and one person sits int he head, you can carry up to two more people in it... and there are computer access panels in both those spots as well, so they can even do useful things like running the phasers or shields while the pilot concentrates on maneuvering in a battle, and so on. You can probably tell I'm half-set on having one added to the ship's complement.
My only question is, why am I hung up on shuttles when there's still so much left on the ship, and there is at the very most room for just one more aboard even pissing the engineers off by keeping one in their workshop all the time. (On the plus side, that does at least mean it would come with the saucer in the event of an emergency separation.)
![[Image: goiDxVgl.png]](https://i.imgur.com/goiDxVg.png)
Back to front, you have the Sea Angel's re-engined Type-7, the Bav-Nanya Drive Systems X-Shuttle, and the Motodyne Beartrap.
![[Image: LFwrVx6l.png]](https://i.imgur.com/LFwrVx6.png)
The Beartrap with its drive ring closed and cockpit dome opened for a victory lap of the spectator stands. Come on, you can't tell me you didn't always want to hover around town in a convertible-top shuttlecraft! (The normal crew door on the back is open too, but that's just to make sure I don't block the pocket for it when putting equipment in the walls inside.) I haven't made the seat and control console yet, but you can see the top of the transporter effect volume dummy poking up through the companionway into the lower section of the craft, that being the one place big enough for it. Hey, it's a racing shuttle, be glad it has anything more than a cockpit! As is, I squeezed in a bunk, head, mini replicator, and enough cargo space to take some sharp threads for the victory party and to BRING HOME THE TROPHY! It's basically a love letter to 1950's rocket age/UFO cheese both in continuity and out. I can't decide if I like it better in British Racing Green as above or bright red... and it's pretty sharp in the shade of blue I used for the Sea Angel's trim stripe as well. Still needs a little more chrome, too, I intend to put a Motodyne badge and some more Deco stripes along the upper drive ring and to either side of the crew door at least, along with finishing the interior.
Aside from the bits already mentioned, you can see a couple of phaser strips, and the streamlined pods on either side of the ring have a sensor dome on top with two bussard collectors below and the impulse engines at the back, while the forward pod has a big ol' deflector dish ready to bounce graviton particle beams as the plot requires and also houses the warp core so all the antimatter is kept well away from inhabited spaces. The downside is of course that you have to EVA to get at it if mission events require repairs or modifications, but that's why the cockpit has both an opening dome and an inner door on the companionway, so it can act as an airlock if needed while the interior of the shuttle stays pressurized. If they hot-swap on the bunk and one person sits int he head, you can carry up to two more people in it... and there are computer access panels in both those spots as well, so they can even do useful things like running the phasers or shields while the pilot concentrates on maneuvering in a battle, and so on. You can probably tell I'm half-set on having one added to the ship's complement.
My only question is, why am I hung up on shuttles when there's still so much left on the ship, and there is at the very most room for just one more aboard even pissing the engineers off by keeping one in their workshop all the time. (On the plus side, that does at least mean it would come with the saucer in the event of an emergency separation.)