2008 Ships of the Line Calendar

[Cary L. Brown]

Technobuilder said:
I've never bought a Trek Calendar before... mostly because I've never ever used a calendar. (I've received several as presents.)

BUT

What I'd like to know is how long have these calendars been going on? & Would it be possible to purchase a High-Res Compendium of these Images from whoever puts them out? (Kinda like an E-Book but with Images instead of Text?)

I'm always interested in new Desktop Wallpapers.

There's a small coffee-table book that contains MANY of these images, along with blurbs about what the intended "history" of them is. The pictures are smaller, rather than larger, than they are in the calendars, however (which was a MASSIVE disappointment to me).

Check out this link:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002...o.y=0&Go=Go

 

[Clawhammer]

I can give a bit more info about the "paddewheel shuttle thingy" Btw, this is the first time I see the paddle wheel ship from Flux, but I had the same inspiration: round nacelles to create a compact design.

I designed the runabout for a contest over at SCN mid 2006. A 30 meter long ship, with a couple of exchangeable modules. I did the original model in about 3 weeks. I then posted it on SFM, and went on holiday, when I came back I noticed it was headered on SFM. I then thought it would be nice to go for the next step, so I mailed Andrew Probert and he kind of liked it. I got a list of changes he suggested. I spent another 40 hours on the paneling, the environment a new interior and a repaint/retexture.

The model on the calendar has about 40 changes to the prototype. For example the calendar image has hot coffee cups on it. Just a joke. No in fact it has hot coffe cups on it.

Anyway, for me this was about the biggest thing I have ever done, getting directions from Andrew Probert and others is about the coolest thing! I'm trying to do the best I can to stay in the spirit of Star Trek. I must add that I always try to design something new as I think it's important to look forward, and explore new possibilities. (So my favorite era would be somewhere around 2390.)

 

[B.J.]

Clawhammer said:I designed the runabout for a contest over at SCN mid 2006.

THAT'S where I saw it! That was a sweet design, and it's nice to see a fan design make it into the calendar. :thumbsup:

 

[RAMA]

On a similar note....I would really appreciate if anyone with the book or calendars could scan an image of the hand of Apollo grabbing the Enterprise that I heard was in the calendar one year, 2006 possibly.

RAMA

 

[Cary L. Brown]

LiChiu said:

Cary L. Brown said:

LiChiu said:It looks like a funky shuttle craft.

It's described in the title (and by appearance) as some sort of specialized ice-planet exploratory vessel. I get the impression that it's supposed to be an ice-borer... melting its way through to, for instance, a volcanically-warmed ocean. Kind of like what we have on Europa here in our own system.

(The sub-ice oceans of Europa are the only place in our solar system where it's actually reasonably likely that we may find life, by the way.)

That is cool! It would be fun to see that in a show or movie.

Well, you can... sort of... there's a bit of "speculative science" near the end of this flick, which is a REAL WORLD documentary.

http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Deep-Dr-Michael-Atkins/dp/B000AJJNHW

Basically, James Cameron is now sooo rich that he can afford to spend his time and money playing... but he likes to play in the "real world science" category.

In this case, he set up an expedition to do deep diving (using deep submersibles or ROVs) to explore the superheated volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean. And yes, they did find life down there... shrimp which live in jets of water hot enough to melt the submersibles, things like that...

They then project, based upon what little is known about Europa, that this same sort of life may exist there. There's a bit of SFX/sci-fi work at the end to support that hypothesis for the film's sake.

It's actually a pretty cool show. I recommend it.