Chugging along with multiple commissions (including some non-Trek work that I can't show due to contracts but yay its exciting), and now I'm focusing on one I actually have going since late last year, but that was delayed due to an extensive "pre-production", shall we say. Essentially it's a brand new bridge that we designed entirely before actually getting into the 3D part of it.
And this bridge is for the USS Orion NCC-60120, first of its class. Designed and modeled by DJCurtis for Bridge Commander, the Orion-Class is essentially a Constitution sized Galaxy. While some might see it as derivative, personally I quite like it, taking all the good aspects of the Galaxy and presenting them in a much more logical size for a "workhorse" starship. It's supposed to have been a testbed for all the Galaxy technologies; newer than the 'Wolf 359 fleet', but a bit older than the Galaxy-Class itself.
The brief was "what if the TNG production had enough money to properly convert the Constitution bridge set into a TNG-era 'bridge of the week' set?". To that end, the actual walls are taken from the Connie, but everything else will be brand new (well, except for the conn/ops consoles and Captain's chair, obviously). The walls will have four door alcoves (two at the front, two at the back), and feature standing consoles similar to those from TMP (left side of the image), but re-imagined with a fully TNG-era aesthetic.
This is build to be highly modular, again imagining how the production might have done it so that it could be easily redressed as needed for different episodes. The new standing consoles are separated into individual pieces, while both the wooden rails and the bottom can be removed to create different looking consoles. In the future we might end up doing different versions of this bridge, from early TNG to late TNG, to showcase how it might have changed through the years, and to take advantage of this modularity.
Anyway, here's how its looking so far! Keep in mind, only the basic shape of the floor is in place, a blue carpet will be added on top of the red one, just like on TNG.
And this bridge is for the USS Orion NCC-60120, first of its class. Designed and modeled by DJCurtis for Bridge Commander, the Orion-Class is essentially a Constitution sized Galaxy. While some might see it as derivative, personally I quite like it, taking all the good aspects of the Galaxy and presenting them in a much more logical size for a "workhorse" starship. It's supposed to have been a testbed for all the Galaxy technologies; newer than the 'Wolf 359 fleet', but a bit older than the Galaxy-Class itself.
The brief was "what if the TNG production had enough money to properly convert the Constitution bridge set into a TNG-era 'bridge of the week' set?". To that end, the actual walls are taken from the Connie, but everything else will be brand new (well, except for the conn/ops consoles and Captain's chair, obviously). The walls will have four door alcoves (two at the front, two at the back), and feature standing consoles similar to those from TMP (left side of the image), but re-imagined with a fully TNG-era aesthetic.
This is build to be highly modular, again imagining how the production might have done it so that it could be easily redressed as needed for different episodes. The new standing consoles are separated into individual pieces, while both the wooden rails and the bottom can be removed to create different looking consoles. In the future we might end up doing different versions of this bridge, from early TNG to late TNG, to showcase how it might have changed through the years, and to take advantage of this modularity.
Anyway, here's how its looking so far! Keep in mind, only the basic shape of the floor is in place, a blue carpet will be added on top of the red one, just like on TNG.
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