94th? Wait a minute...if GR was 70 when he died in 1991, wouldn't he be 100 this year? Or is this for Gene Winfield's 94th? I'm confused.
Now that's awesomnemous! With a cherry on top.. and whipped cream! That impulse engine startup there was super!
This would have been Roddenberry’s hundredth year? Trek really does a crappy job of celebrating birthdays/anniversaries. Trek’s 50th for example should have done something huge for the small and Big Screens. Beyond was just kinda meh as a movie and not really a celebration necessarily. But not to digress from the epic job @Professor Moriarty has accomplished here. This is an absolute joy to behold. All the little details (the power transfer conduits in the nacelle pylons, the lower lights on the Winfield, the naming it the Winfield) all so great! The camera motion too, and glowing hull with the different colored lights hitting it…everything such a pleasure to behold. Five Bolians.
Gene Winfield. That man is like the Energizer bunny… he celebrated his 94th birthday two weeks ago with a car customization workshop. If I live another four decades (!) I can only hope to be 1/10th as active and vital as Mr. Winfield.
@Professor Moriarty - That is super awesome My favorite part was the shuttle engines lighting up - something about that is pretty damn cool with the sound fx It is great to see your door opening and closing mechanism in action. Edit: Is there a bit of a "Back To The Future" nod also?
You mean the “wobbling” of the Galileo as the pilot lifts her to her pre-launch hover? I don’t know what you mean.
Arpy already called out in fine fashion the details that had me stepping frame-by-frame through your video for the past 20+ minutes. Fantastic work!
Brilliantly executed but I am never going to be a fan of the TOS-R type of lift-off. For one, why waste shuttlecraft fuel if the mother ship can impart some free velocity?
The engines turning on looked kewl. The shuttlecraft bobbing there like a party balloon, not so much. IMO, anyway.
Interesting that you have the ridges on the forward of the nacelles open to see the innards of the engines.
That feature has been there since at least October 2019. I figured that they look like vents, so if they are vents, they're openings to somewhere, so we might as well see what's going on (or at least get a glimpse!) Ahhhh... crap. It was a keyframing error... the port gear started retracting for the next sequence a little too early. This has been fixed in the Vimeo version of the video. I'll post some high-rez beauty shots of the Galileo and Winfield later this week. Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Hah, I didn't notice the landing gear raised but now I see it. Good catch/correction Which draws attention to the landing gear... Winfield has different landing gear than the Galileo. What other differences/surprises do you have?
I thought so. @blssdwlf I’ll be sure to call out all of the deltas when I post the purty picksures, but I will say for now that Galileo II is meant to be as screen-accurate as possible (with the notable exceptions of the navigational strobes carved into the “wings” and a more weathered appearance than what we saw in “The Way to Eden” at the end of S3). The Winfield is basically my way of having my cake and eating it too—it’s sprinkled with several non-canon features.
Here is a test video that I made back on May 23 after modeling was completed. Direct link to video At this point in time, the Winfield is geometrically complete but is still wearing her temporary placeholder materials. What's nice about this video is that--with the model "outside" instead of inside the relative dimness of the Enterprise hangar deck--you can clearly see the retraction and extension of the tricycle landing gear. BTW, the original plan was to have everything finished in time for Gene Winfield's 94th birthday on June 16, which is why the titles (incorrectly) indicate that the video was released on that day. As for the video itself, the idea was that the Galileo II would be the shuttlecraft that takes off and flies off-camera, with the Winfield making her dramatic appearance at the end. But back in May I didn't have a Galileo II model--at least, not a screen-accurate version. I had already dolled up the Winfield with all of the various non-canon goodies, so the Winfield is a stand-in for both shuttles in this test clip. (In-universe, perhaps Ensign Ricky forgot to turn the sonic stove off, which is why he had to fly back so soon.)