U.S.S. GEMINI - CGI Model
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it, and that it's good enough to be growing on you.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it, and that it's good enough to be growing on you.
This is just freakin cool... I love the old ships...
I... I don't understand that sentence...
Why not? I grew up with TNG / DS9 and VOY, so I think that's understandable. Also, I've seen only 3 episodes of TOS. (All movies I have seen.)
When I designed Surya the idea was that it could take any number of modular attachments, internal and external, depending on the mission it was assigned. Sort of like the modern day littoral combat ship.
New update... we finally see the warp nacelles in all their glory!
3D model by Charles Casimiro
3D model by Charles Casimiro
I can easily imagine seeing this on TOS.
Thank you... that really is the biggest compliment you can pay me, because that pretty much sums up my whole goal with this project... to make this ship look and feel like she truly belongs in to TOS setting.
I don't know, really... in terms of the warp pylons, those are one of the few things that never changed from the way aridas drew them... I drew mine the same way. I'm thinking maybe it's the angle of the shot that makes them look closer to the hull? I think from the side, it might look different.
The phasers are electronically steered or in retractable housings or something, I'd imagine.
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Thanks, guys. Yeah, the phasers for the most part are exactly where they were on the TOS ship... the 11-foot model, that is, since the filming model never had those Franz Joseph "nipple" phasers.
Thanks, guys. Yeah, the phasers for the most part are exactly where they were on the TOS ship... the 11-foot model, that is, since the filming model never had those Franz Joseph "nipple" phasers.
New update... we finally see the warp nacelles in all their glory!
3D model by Charles Casimiro
I'm loving this ship I've always find the TOS ships to be beautiful but this one is sexy !!!! Love how u have angled the warp pylons and the location of the shuttle bays. Very nice indeed keep up the good work BA
Thank you, both.
Nero's Shadow, thanks, but I cannot take credit for the design itself... the Surya as designed by aridas has angled pylons, so I merely copied that from the original. IIRC, the Coventry is the one with the pylons pointing straight down. But I'm glad you like it.
Tallguy, yeah, I would love to see your Surya completed... it'd be interesting to see if it would be unchanged, or if you've learned some new tricks since then that you'd apply to the model to improve it any.
Nero's Shadow, thanks, but I cannot take credit for the design itself... the Surya as designed by aridas has angled pylons, so I merely copied that from the original. IIRC, the Coventry is the one with the pylons pointing straight down. But I'm glad you like it.
Tallguy, yeah, I would love to see your Surya completed... it'd be interesting to see if it would be unchanged, or if you've learned some new tricks since then that you'd apply to the model to improve it any.
Well, I've been dinking around with the mesh off and on over the last year. Mostly cleanup kind of stuff. aridas and I were both very happy with the shape as it was, so it's just refinement.
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Nice... yeah, I'd really love to see you work on it again... I'd follow the WIP thread with interest!
I know that Casimiro has told me that the warp nacelles on the Gemini are actually an improvement over the nacelles on his TOS Enterprise model... he used a few new tricks and textures to make the Gemini's better, so when he revises his Enterprise, it'll actually have the Gemini's nacelles on it.
Nice... yeah, I'd really love to see you work on it again... I'd follow the WIP thread with interest!
I know that Casimiro has told me that the warp nacelles on the Gemini are actually an improvement over the nacelles on his TOS Enterprise model... he used a few new tricks and textures to make the Gemini's better, so when he revises his Enterprise, it'll actually have the Gemini's nacelles on it.
