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Thomas Kellogg's "Avanti" shuttlecraft concept art?

Those sketches don't appear to be the work of Thomas Kellogg. They look more like concepts for the aborted Phase II series, or ST:TMP or TNG.
 
There is a shuttlecraft "brochure art" poster online somewhere that's a cutaway image, showing interior mechanisms— and the captions (the "copy" as they say at McMann & Tate) are an in-universe advertisement for the shuttle itself. Offering the latest in comfort and safety, that kind of puffing, plus technical call-out captions. It's pretty cool.
 
scotpens said:
Those sketches don't appear to be the work of Thomas Kellogg. They look more like concepts for the aborted Phase II series, or ST:TMP or TNG.
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I don't even think they're for Star Trek, they have more of an Irwin Allen vibe (although one of the drawings does look a bit like the Avanti shuttlecraft). Maybe the "57" on every drawing is a clue, but it's not ringing any bells for me.
 
Or, Star Trek "Planet of Titans" maybe?
The Kellogg shuttlecraft does have "A57" on the side, that's one of the things that made think this could be his work, that is, if it does indeed date from the 1960s.
 
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They do have that mid-century, Syd Meade-esque look to them. The blurb on each individual piece's page says that they were originally sold at the Christie Star Trek auction.
...maybe someone here knows if that is a fabrication or not....
 
That auction was discussed on this BBS when it was held, and iirc the attribution was found then as part of the online catalog. Though we had an even earlier discussion in which I said the style did not appear to match Jefferies, but did very much appear to match what turned out to be Kellogg’s color rendering on black board of his Galileo concept sans nacelles. I can’t find those posts anymore, but I stand by what I said. I think those are initial concept sketches and that one was developed further into the color render.
 
I found the graphic I was talking about. Click to enlarge:
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Oops, I totally forgot about the "A57" thing, combine that with the idea that Christie's is hopefully good with provenance and what @aridas sofia posted has made me come around to these being Kellogg sketches for the original shuttlecraft.

We can probably attribute their "general 50s/60s scifi-ness" to the the thought that Kellogg hadn't actually seen any Star Trek when he made them, so didn't have a good idea of the show's aesthetic, so threw a bunch of ideas together for which they selected the "avanti" one to refine.
 
Yes I used to think he was working from the “personnel transport” Jefferies did for his family of dockyard craft, but these sketches made me think he might have been working independent of Jefferies on Winfield’s instructions alone.
 
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