Xenos explorer and Corvettes

I am delighted to declare that he ship in this video was one of two runners up in a 3dvia competition to build a starship.
http://www.3dvia.com/blog/3dvia-challenge-16-champions/

Here's my full description of both ships:

The larger of these two is a 3km long xenos explorer ship. The xenos are peaceful herbivores, so they don't like to build ships specifically for combat, but since they were forced into a major war they had to build combat vessels. The smaller ship along side is the corvette you may have seen in isolation as a previous model of mine, it is about 100m long.

The explorer ship is powered by a battery of fusion reactors. The Deuterium and Tritium fuel for the reactors is collected from space by the large dish at the front of the vessel, any excess can be stored in the external tanks clustered near the back of the ship. It is propelled by a single high speed plasma jet with two stage acceleration and energisation. You can think of this as a jet engine with an afterburner.
For defence it is covered with field dishes, these can apply a remote force to enemy and allied projectiles to turn them towards the enemy ships. These take the form of the small dishes, which can be extended on flexible arms, spread around the centrifugal gravity cylinder and on the exoskeleton.
Just aft of the main habitation area are eight bays, each of which is capable of carrying one corvette.

The corvette is powered by a fusion reactor, but cannot use its main field dish to collector so it needs to store all its fuel in the external tanks.
The corvette has a large main engine for straight line acceleration as well as four smaller engine modules for manoeuvring, these are located on arms to give a strong turning moment with relatively low force.
It's main weapon is a forward facing field dish with a single projectile gun aimed through the centre. It also has four smaller field dishes which can be used to manipulated enemy ships and projectiles, they can also be used for propulsion by pushing or pulling against larger ships of celestial bodies.

I look forward to reading any comments or questions you may have, and addressing them if applicable. (If you ask a question make sure you check subscribe to comments, so you'll see my reply.)

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Vanguard Xenos comparison

Vanguard Xenos comparison, originally uploaded by kiml42.

This picture took 11 hours to render. Blender doesn't seem to cope well with really large objects. The Xenos ship is a few thousand blender units long. Please head over to the flickr page and see it full size for maximum detail. (You can just about make out some of the tiny little guns on Big V)

CSS Vanguard (version 0.91)

I can also blog straight from youtube, how cool is that. Here's the latest video of the CSS Vanguard.

Xenos ship spinning video.

ship and reactor0001_0400, originally uploaded by kiml42.

I've just set up flickr to make blogging photos (and videos) really easy, in theory. So, let's see if this works.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Final render of my swift animation, with sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diDAg3q_NT0

well, there really isn't much to say... please comment.