OT + WIP: Kirby-style Helicarrier MSD

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  1. DEWLine

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    Something I've been toying with for a little while...and it needs a lot of work.


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    Started laying down function areas by colour code. Green for commissaries, blue for gravity field projector arrays, orange for lifts, and purple for the IRBM silo for on-board satellite launch capability.

    "IRBM, you say?"

    It was Eliot Brown's idea per the first Marvel Universe Handbook of the early 1980's, designed as an "in case of nuclear war on Earth and the planet still needs defensive comms" satellite-launching feature and the regular Nick Fury series - starring Nick Sr. at the time - took that idea and ran with it as a plot point about a decade or so later. So, it's in this drawing.

    Colour-coding subject to change, of course...
     
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    Damn sweet!
    Always loved the heli-carrier, and this s one sweet project.
    I think my favorite version of the carrier is the one in the live action film Nick Fury: Soldier of Shield (the one with Hasselhoff)...the thing was a beast with those huge turbine engines!
     
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    Thank you, Atolm! Hoping to get a better handle on it as I go along!

    I saw that version from the Hasselhoff Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD TV movie back when the film aired. It was...well, it was unique with outboard engines of that size!
     
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    Reminds me of the Trieste a little.
     
  7. DEWLine

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    In what sense(s)?

    *awaits the feedback*
     
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    Progress update.

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    Further along...framing devices and suchlike...

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    Adding in colour-coding for living quarters, additional C³I spaces, weapons emplacements, hull structures, sickbay compartments...

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    Can I ask why you have it in a right to left orientation?
    I was taught that since we read left to right, that is the more masculine/aggressive view.
     
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    1. I was working from Eliot Brown's published line art in the old Marvel Universe Handbook. (Speaking of whom, I'd like to see him getting more work from comics publishers in general these days.)

    2. Force of habit from looking at Trek-style MSDs.

    3. Not what I've been taught in drafting class. In fact, it's never really been an issue raised in my experience.
     
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  13. largo

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    this is a modern helicarrier, which is neither afraid nor ashamed of its feminine, sensitive side.
     
  14. DEWLine

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    That works too.
     
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    Call for advice re: language-switching in interface design. Assuming a multilingual crew, and the desirability to be able to switch a given console between users' languages at need/whim, has anyone figured out a good visual shorthand for specific languages? Say, if I want hot buttons for the six official languages of the United Nations plus a handful of the more heavily used alternatives (and one button for "all the rest that our OS programmers could anticipate agent-crew using")?

    Also noting: Stratum family fonts are great for text in languages using the Latin alphabet, but limited to that writing system.
     
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    Tentatively going with the ISO 639-1 codes to solve my question re: languages...

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    Almost done. Need to decide on the colour-coding for the scan arrays, and label the lifts for aircraft/heavy machinery and for personnel. Also, some additional bits of trimmings to be decided upon here and there.
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    Starting to fiddle with the idea of deck plans, for my own entertainment. But for all I like Mr. Brown's work - and those of several other Marvel-contracted artists across the decades, I find myself wondering what the best physical set up for a flight deck on this vessel class should be.

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