Thanks guys.
Ah yes, I do tend to like it more and more the more I gaze at it. I may have to officially shift over eh, and just keep the blue as an alt version. It does hold to tradition more tightly, while updating the cheesy Christmas-tree efx.
Agggrh, another 15 hours or so of re-rendering out perhaps, LOL. Hey, but the is no ordinary mesh eh! The is, as my Mom put it, my
Holy Grail of models, and I
have to always go the extra light-year for E, my first love.
Ah! Yes, the "peach" sets off the nacelle domes perfectly! Funny, I never before read that color name to describe the hue, but it makes so much more sense than "red".
What started the business of using red for the domes, anyway? As a kid when I'd assemble my succession of AMT kits, that's what I'd use, as well as my buddy, Kyle. But even the box art with the photo of the model didn't use red, more of an amber with an instense specular value of white. Anybody have any theories?
Sincerely,
Bill
Well, I'm a color-analyst from way back, and peach is just my natural call on it Bill. As to the red, I could be incorrect, but I believe that concept
most probably emerged mostly out of TNG. When I was building the AMT kits in the late 60s and early 70s, I never even considered red for the bussards.
Actually, I like the red and peach versions better. What's red look like with the new Bussard collector internals?
I think c5maier meant to ask if you intend for this to be used for a production like how New Voyages/Phase II has their own model.
Sorry GilmourD, the red is, as stated previously, o-u-t, out. Way too cartoon-y, garish and 80-ish IMO. Peach is as
reddish as TOS.5 E's bussards will ever get at this point. No goin' back eh.
As to your mention of NV/PII, as I
love those Neo-Trek productions, I of course would be open to the idea, but
only as long as she was guaranteed to never be made to do barrel-roles and/or made to maneuver like a fighter-jet in any way, shape, or form. WTF was up with that? I'm mean, those guys
obviously love Trek. Why would they do that to E? Still amazes me to this day.
I forgive them though, and I have not seen them do it again since.
Put me down in the "I like the peach better" camp. More like the original, but yet different enough. Hey, deg, any chance of seeing a small animation of the engines to see what the effect looks like with "motion"? We all have seen the original VFX of the Big E's engines a million times over, it would be cool to see how your take compares/looks..
Great work!
Q2
Oh yeah Q2, there are of course plans to animate her. All in good time guys. I have a definite idea of what and how the bussard(s) efx will end up looking once they are set in motion.
Thanks again guys!
deg
) I was trying to discern when that kind of inaccurate simplification of the dome color was started. As I was only 10 when I built my first "classic" AMT Enterprise kit, I didn't give much thought to that kind of accuracy. We were still leaving the models white, never giving consideration the ship might actually a kind of soft grey, a muted battleship hue.
