Gray Fox
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Futuristic Super Tanker that is !!!
Why a Futuristic Tanker you ask, wel I was ****ing around trying out the tools in 3dsmax9 and a shape developed that looked like a tanker, later I ****ed up something badly, which I could not undo, and I forgot to save, and since my skills in max are limited to creating primitive shapes and the extrude button, I said, **** it!!!, then it will just have to be a futuristic tanker. But thats how all great artist started, right?
In any case as you can see the hull has a modular design, three modules fit in it, so it can be equipped to carry oil, grain, gas or even a small airfield, because of it enormous length.
As you can also see while the doors and helicopters areof good proportion the stares have been made for giants.
Furthermore since in the future the northern hemisphere has frozen it's also an icebreaker, thats why the front is reinforced and shaped to cut trough thin ICE and to lift the tanker on top and use it's weight to break thicker ICE.
It also has three helipads, one in front mostly for emergencies, so if someone who is needed in front but is all the way in the back can quickly be transported, later versions of this tanker have a magnetic rail system built in to the hull, so precious helicopter fuel is not wasted. And the overall efficiency is upped.
The big arm is there to reach hard to get places when the tanker is supplying structures on sea that do not have an infrastructure that can support goods of massive size, it can also be used for self defense against smaller attacking pirate vessels, the big grabber is simply hovered over the vessels and dropped on to them.
It's hull is made out of mostly shape memory plastic to save weight off course, but also because when the tanker collides against something the plastic will bend and twist to minimize the damage of the blow, and afterward it will quickly change back to it's original shape, this is very important when voyaging trough iceberg infested waters.
It's powered by three small nuclear reactors, not because it's cool although the crew does brag about it, but for safety, efficiency and reliability, just one is enough to power the whole ship so there is a lot of redundancy, their small enough to be quickly replaced and or dumped in safe encasing in an emergency.
Anyway, now you can tell me how good I am and how Pixar is jealous not to have me.
And off couse thnx in advance for any useful advice and/or clever insults.
Why a Futuristic Tanker you ask, wel I was ****ing around trying out the tools in 3dsmax9 and a shape developed that looked like a tanker, later I ****ed up something badly, which I could not undo, and I forgot to save, and since my skills in max are limited to creating primitive shapes and the extrude button, I said, **** it!!!, then it will just have to be a futuristic tanker. But thats how all great artist started, right?
In any case as you can see the hull has a modular design, three modules fit in it, so it can be equipped to carry oil, grain, gas or even a small airfield, because of it enormous length.
As you can also see while the doors and helicopters areof good proportion the stares have been made for giants.
Furthermore since in the future the northern hemisphere has frozen it's also an icebreaker, thats why the front is reinforced and shaped to cut trough thin ICE and to lift the tanker on top and use it's weight to break thicker ICE.
It also has three helipads, one in front mostly for emergencies, so if someone who is needed in front but is all the way in the back can quickly be transported, later versions of this tanker have a magnetic rail system built in to the hull, so precious helicopter fuel is not wasted. And the overall efficiency is upped.
The big arm is there to reach hard to get places when the tanker is supplying structures on sea that do not have an infrastructure that can support goods of massive size, it can also be used for self defense against smaller attacking pirate vessels, the big grabber is simply hovered over the vessels and dropped on to them.
It's hull is made out of mostly shape memory plastic to save weight off course, but also because when the tanker collides against something the plastic will bend and twist to minimize the damage of the blow, and afterward it will quickly change back to it's original shape, this is very important when voyaging trough iceberg infested waters.
It's powered by three small nuclear reactors, not because it's cool although the crew does brag about it, but for safety, efficiency and reliability, just one is enough to power the whole ship so there is a lot of redundancy, their small enough to be quickly replaced and or dumped in safe encasing in an emergency.
Anyway, now you can tell me how good I am and how Pixar is jealous not to have me.
And off couse thnx in advance for any useful advice and/or clever insults.
