Helicarrier Thoughts, Continued
Jun. 1st, 2014 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineSo I've been fiddling in Adobe Illustrator tonight. Half-tempted to revert back to CorelDRAW instead for this sort of thing, but never mind that for the moment.
This afternoon and evening, I spent part of the time fiddling with that Helicarrier tech art from the Marvel Universe Handbook from 1983. The working assumption being, if its length was about the same as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should its internal structures be expected to look like?
So here's some of the thinking I'd done, in the form of those transparent "boxes" standing in for the projected decks. Obviously, a number of compartments throughout our fictional SHIELD Field Ops HQ ship are going to need a lot of thought.
In case anyone's wondering: yes, I'm working from the assumption that the innards directly under the flight deck are themselves crew-habitable spaces, because the same applies to CVs and CVNs going almost all the way back to World War 2. There's unclassified technical art available confirming this, a single web-search away with your favourite search engine.
This afternoon and evening, I spent part of the time fiddling with that Helicarrier tech art from the Marvel Universe Handbook from 1983. The working assumption being, if its length was about the same as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should its internal structures be expected to look like?
So here's some of the thinking I'd done, in the form of those transparent "boxes" standing in for the projected decks. Obviously, a number of compartments throughout our fictional SHIELD Field Ops HQ ship are going to need a lot of thought.
In case anyone's wondering: yes, I'm working from the assumption that the innards directly under the flight deck are themselves crew-habitable spaces, because the same applies to CVs and CVNs going almost all the way back to World War 2. There's unclassified technical art available confirming this, a single web-search away with your favourite search engine.
