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Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

Wow. Talk about the "snazzy upholstry." :D I call that a win, win.
Nice use of the desk's "nook" space too. :)
 
What table are we talking about?

Shane Johnson of Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise describes the table in this interview:

http://www.trekplace.com/shanejohnson.html

I did get to see the corner booth/table unit that always had been in Kirk's quarters but was never seen on film (it appears on the floorplan in MSG), and it had a clear plexiglas tabletop and snazzy upholstery. That same corner of the room is seen in ST II, where the set had been redressed into Spock's quarters, but for that film the booth/table had been replaced with Spock's kneeling/meditation alcove.

Oh, no I'm definitely going to model that booth table in the corner. I was earlier referring to the table that was in the TMP Kirk's Quarters, that had these modular chairs that snapped into it. I may use a similar table for the briefing room set I have planned.

Here's today's updates, finishing the desk area and adding the nicely textured chairs...



Don't forget the table Kirk throws his book and broken glasses onto.
 
I continue to be amazed by the amount of detail you wring out of a few seconds of screen time!
 
Now for that wacky table with the weird chairs that snap into it!

I'm definitely not going to have that modular table from TMP in the TWOK version of the officer's quarters, but I am considering having a similar style table in a movie era Briefing Room, which was never seen on screen.

Man, I cannot WAIT to see your rendition of the Briefing Room.

I have a Star Trek story I wanted to tell on a TWOK-era Starfleet ship; my take was that the new Captain would decide he wanted to convert the ship's Officer's Lounge into the main Briefing Room. I always loved how TNG did that.
 
It always bugged me that they used painfully-obvious TOS-era deckplans and outboard schematics for those monitors, especially the dorsal view of the TOS Connie for the break-in alert in Spock's quarters. They already had perfectly good refit schematics available from the 1980 TMP Blueprints set by David Kimble, which they DID use for both the shield monitor at the weapons console and the damage control console in TWOK! Why the hell didn't they use those? Very sloppy work there (not you, Donny, but the graphics people who worked on TSFS).

The computer system was malfunctioning from the beatings the Enterprise had taken. ;)

Kor
 
I have a Star Trek story I wanted to tell on a TWOK-era Starfleet ship; my take was that the new Captain would decide he wanted to convert the ship's Officer's Lounge into the main Briefing Room. I always loved how TNG did that.

My theory is that the officer's dining room from TUC was in place of the officer's lounge in TMP (just ignore the windows), and the combination observation lounge/briefing room practice started when some Captain decided to begin using the dining room as a conference room because it was so damn picturesque.
 
Ooof, that dining room. It doesn't really fit anywhere in that ship -- remember, later in the film, that room gets blown to smithereens by the Klingon torpedo that punctures through the saucer, bottom to top... in an area where there's no windows.

So either a.) they're fake windows, or b.) Kirk likes to hang portraits of Abraham Lincoln in every dining room on the ship. :p
 
So, I took a week and indulged in a little Star Wars material. After playing the newly released Star Wars: Battlefront, I was inspired by their gorgeous visuals and meticulously re-created SW locales. I was, however, dismayed that there weren't any starship interiors featured, so I created one of my favorites. I know I may get murdered for posting SW stuff in this thread, but hey...whatever. It's my thread, afterall.








Okay, okay. Back to work on the officer's quarters....http://www.trekbbs.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/
 
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Outstanding! I yesterday had some friends over to watch the entire Star Wars trilogy. Super fun times. (Don't embarrass yourself asking "which trilogy?" If there's not Luke Skywalker or Han Solo, it's hard to call it Star Wars...)

Donny, do you have the book Star Wars: The Blueprints? It features the actual working drawings for most of the sets used in all six films. Both Tantive IV corridors are shown in detail. Anyhow, whatever process you used, looks like you nailed it.

--Alex
 
Yep, I have it. I ordered it over a year ago and have safely stowed it away until the day that I got bitten by the SW bug and wanted to re-create some of its interior sets.
 
^They're only mixed if he's got Captain Kirk defending the Tantive IV from Darth Vader. Or Han Solo at the Helm of the Enterprise.
 
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I love it and would support a decision to model the entire interior... once you finish the Enterprise of course. Of course, then you'll probably want to model the interior of the ISD Devastator. That would be a biiiiiiig project.
 
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Just popping in to pile on my adulation for your work. Just damn fine stuff here. Looking forward to seeing more (both Star Trek and Star Wars)!

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