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Mote is one of my all time favorite SF novels. And the Leif is the basis of MacArthur. The only adjustment is that it would have a more circular cross section. Less flat and whisky bottle shaped. The hangar doors would bulge more so they would present a "flat" surface under spin gravity.

Looks like I misinterpreted a SketchUp comment about starting over after losing your Mac. I don't intend to throw shade on your results, which are excellent! RE: MoI -- The current version runs perfectly on my work M1 Studio, and on my home M2 Mac Mini. M.

I was one of those kids frequenting the book stalls back in the 70s. Your posts really "take me back." Keep it up! M.

Since AMT asked MJ to design another space ship model to follow up on the amazing success of the original Enterprise; I think in AMT's mind, it was a Trek model. In my personal, juvenile head-canon, back in the 70s, it was a Gorn ship... So glad to see you "back in the saddle," Warped9! I...

Thanks for the link. I watched it the other night and it was very interesting -- and moving. M.

Use of a Tractor beam as you suggest would have the same issue as an orbit between two closely matched masses. K7 wouldn't swing the E around herself; they would both "orbit" a barycenter about a quarter of the way along a line from K7 to the Enterprise. A do-see-do, as it were. Now add another...

It...came from the margarine factory...just...like this. Untouched by...human hands. Promise!

Always happy to see new Shaw posts!

Update time again. Here's a shuttle launch from an exterior view. In order to pull this off, I had to append my hangar interior into my exterior Enterprise model. Fortunately, Blender makes that pretty easy.

For a gal living on an ice planet, Zarabeth sure liked to dress casual. Not that I'm complaining.

Time for a new update. I pulled an old model of the S.S. Botany Bay that I created in my program of many years, Strata 3D. It is a fairly easy thing to export from Strata as an FBX and import into Blender. From there it is a bit of work to revise the texturing. My version is based on the...

Some folks like their Enterprises to be "happy to see them." I do not. There is visual evidence that it could be either extended or retracted. I have depicted it as retracted. M.

I noticed that I had neglected to properly texture a few details on the bottom of the primary hull. I just updated the Fire Phasers render, above, with a new render.

I, too, view the area around the lower sensor as the phaser turret. It's the only feature that makes sense to me, other than some kind of pop open hatches. Since we've never seen any evidence of this in TOS, I haven't added that detail. While I am not opposed to adding extra detail, my...

Fire Phasers!

I love your series of faux book covers. They remind me of all of the great 70s SF paperbacks of years long gone. In this case, it awakens nostalgia for something that never was... M.

I wasn't going to address this, but I fall squarely in the "not rotating/not orbiting" camp. In the original episode, we see apparent rotation of the station and apparent movement of the ship; but, when seen from the station office, neither the stars nor the Enterprise are moving. There is a...

I agree about the angles. That always annoyed me, even as a kid. Unless they were aiming at two widely spaced objects. I will start by making the beams parallel, hoping that the perspective of the shot might give us the slight divergence of angles. We'll see how it turns out. I will be going...

I am planning to attempt the iconic Phaser Firing image. Just need to learn how to depict glowing plasma beams in Blender. The interesting part will be the bounce lighting effects and reflections that should result from beams actually being present, not optically printed in. M.

1, 2, 3, 4, 7a, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14a-b, 15, 16, & 20. One of my favorite memories was watching the 70s reruns on central Indiana's Channel 13. Every night after the last news story, the Eyewitness News team would "beam aboard the Enterprise." They would start the episode on the blue screen behind...