Niðavellir Shipyard: UCM Vancouver class Escort Carrier

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...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

UCM Vancouver class Escort Carrier

Newly commissioned Vancouver class Escort Carrier ready to lend its hand to the UCM.

The Vancouver class emerged from the UCMF Naval Design Bureau in the late 2640s in response to the obvious need for more cost effective fighter and bomber support than the well armed Seattle class offered.

The Vancouver class Escort Carrier is a smaller carrier that lacks the launch capacity or the firepower of the mutch larger Seattle but I think it has a role to play.
I painted it dark grey, with red markings and a large transfers from and old undead set. The skull really ads its unique character to the ship.

I painted the flight deck brown to make it stand out but also to look a little like a ww2 wooden flight deck. Totally wrong to have a wooden deck on a space ship but I blame the aesthetics, rule of cool. The shipyard or the officers in charge maybe painted it brown to look like a older naval ship as a sort of homage to when the carriers started its history.

She is seen here escorted by the newly built Santiagos making a really light Pathfinder group for patrolling areas a long distance from the front lines.

And because I really like these pictures.. The engine exhaust and the lights are painted with flourecent paint to make them really stand out under UV light.

Niðavellir Shipyard