This ship was originally
created and drawn by my good friend Christian Conkle. Christian drew the
basic deckplan completely, as well as a plan elevation. My version of
the courier has expanded the plan elevation into a larger format, with
greater accuracy and clarity.
As with all of Christians ships that have been recreated by myself, the
courier is presented here only with Christians express permission. You
can see the original version here.
Stuffyards are in the middle of doing a massive update and overhgaul of this ship. To be more specific, of the generic version. It has only been whilst doing this that I have realised at some point during construction this ship suffered a glaring error, and became rendered at 42 meters instead of the original 31.
To say this is aggrevating is an understatement of epic proportions. I have been literally jumping up and down in my living room yelling and ranting for about three hours.
Firstly, of course, I don't know how such a complete and basic cock up occurred in the first place. I mean, Window's calculator is ridiculously unreliable, but I usually do something like scale calculations three times to get a good solid result. On top of that, I've been working up to a new style plan, nearing completion, and that's taken about ten days, it's all the fiddly deck panels, you see. Scrapping all that work now just seems wrong.
I'm now facing a whole range of less than pleasant solutions.
1: Bite the bullet and restart.
2: Ignore the error and retain the ship at 42 meters.
3: Put the work in to hammer out two very similar looking ships at different sizes.
Whilst I hide under the bed and try not to think about it, i thought I'd pop this up here and see if any of 'the readers' might have an opinion. If you do, feel free to fire off a mail to me.
Also, I have popped up a page showing where I am with the re-working, just to show quite how aggrevating this is...