Niðavellir Shipyard: Grebbestad class Clipper ship: Tutorial

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Monday, 11 February 2019

Grebbestad class Clipper ship: Tutorial

I had such great response on the Clipper ship I thought I should do a small tutorial.

First of you will need the engine/top part from an New Orlean and the wings from an Toulon.

I put the wing parts upside down and glued them together.

First cut, a straight line.

Next step was to cut of and clean up what will be the front of my ship.

Next was to cut just in front of the engine.

I removed the small part from the engine that use to be connected to the top of the New Orleans part.

I removed the thinner part that regularly have the gun underneath on the Frigates.

Now we have all the parts cleaned up and ready.

And glued together it should look like this.

I might have gotten a bit carried away as I now have three more clipper ships..

And for those wondering about the size comparison with the Santiago class Corvete, here you go.

Underneath here is the first clipper ship I built: https://nidavellir-shipyard.blogspot.com/2019/02/grebbestad-class-clipper-ship.html

Niðavellir Shipyard