Blowing off steam ...

[Ptrope]

Over on the DAZ3D website, we have an ongoing thread for Trek model builders (digital), which is now in its 4th generation (we have to make a new one after 100 posts). Recently, we started talking about steampunk Trek (yeah, I mentioned it - sue me! ), and I decided to play around with the model I created as a freebie for Poser users, of the bridge from TOS. I'm pleasantly surprised to find that, with very little other than changes in textures, I've been able to make a reasonably good "Steam Trek" version of the bridge, and since the geometry is largely unchanged, it remains recognizably Trek, as opposed to looking like something else entirely.

I haven't modeled new chairs, and the railings will definitely have to go, but on the whole, I like it:

Steam Trek: The Bridge

 

[The Axeman]

The railings definitely have to stay, but they need to be the old rounded type or much more ornate.

 

[EmperorKalan]

Basically an exercise in "redressing the set" with different textures, eh? Interesting result.

Can't say I go for the "Steam Trek" idea (I'm more of a "Space:1889" man, myself), but it's all for jollies anyway.

What interests me more is applying this sort of "redress" for alien or private ships.

 

[Ptrope]

The railings definitely have to stay, but they need to be the old rounded type or much more ornate.

Absolutely - I just meant the physical railings as they are need to go, as they're too modern for the rest of the concept .

I'll probably go with something more appropriate to a submarine or steam ship than a Victorian drawing room ...

 

[Gagarin]

Even a steam powered starship has two turbolifts on her bridge... =)

I really dig the carpet.
This actually reminds me of Trek as done in a 30's or 40's serial...Radar Men From Mars or whatever MST3K always riffed on.

 

[Ptrope]

Actually, I don't know if there was another lift there - there was a door in that position in TAS, and the model I started with, by Sean Robertson on another 3D site, had it (although on the starboard, non-canon side). As I was rebuilding the model, I swapped the door to the port side and built a corridor behind it, so there was something there when the door opened. As it is, there is only one door there, instead of the two normally used with a lift, which is why I didn't put one behind it.

In the steam context, I hesitate to call them "turbolifts"; I'd probably go with something like just calling them "tubes," or possibly "pneumo-lifts," thinking of them more like the pneumatic tubes that banks use .

 

[The Axeman]

I believe the other door leads to the captains log room, if you get my meaning.

 

[Ptrope]

... and we're right back to steam! This, my friends, is the very definition of a closed-loop system!

 

[B.J.]

Nice, but I'd go for a brass finish rather than gold. That would fit the theme more to me.

 

[Ptrope]

That was actually my intention - too orange or just too saturated? I don't have any brass handy to see the difference .

 

[Ptrope]

Well, I haven't toned the brass down any, but I did do some minor remodeling of the helm/nav console so there wasn't quite so much of it ...

 

[MadMan1701A]

The chairs and the consoles are awesome! The carpet is a little too strong, though.

 

[Ptrope]

Yeah, it was a bit bolder than I thought it would be ...

 

[judexavier]

The chairs and the consoles are awesome! The carpet is a little too strong, though.

The carpet reminds me of my in-laws living room...(Seriously, I'll have to get a pic of it...) Anyhow, very nice. Ptrope, do you still have that re imaged pilot-bridge you were working on?

 

[The Axeman]

I'm red/green colour blind and I think even I would start to have fits if I spent more than a couple of minutes in that room.

 

[Bernard Guignard]

I'm so looking forward to seeing what the captain's chair is going to look like great work

 

[Ptrope]

The carpet reminds me of my in-laws living room...(Seriously, I'll have to get a pic of it...) Anyhow, very nice. Ptrope, do you still have that re imaged pilot-bridge you were working on?

Eventually, I'll have that model finished - I've been finishing up a rec room based on the one barely seen a couple times in TOS and cut entirely from "Elaan of Troyius", but as you can see ... I'm really easily distracted, esp. by shiny things . At any rate, I need to finish up the rec room, then the '4th-season' engineering set, and then finally the Pike:TNG bridge. And then I'll really work up the steam bridge - unless I get distracted again, or I decide to go ahead and go nuts, building a whole new steam bridge from scratch and selling it. At the moment, it's just a giddy exercise .

And there's progress! I started the captain's chair, and this is very much a work in progress - I had a lot more done, but my machine locked up and I lost most of it .

Video (AVI, Xvid)

 

[baxart]

Very cool, I started designing an art deco bridge myself, wish I had your skills.

 

[Q2UnME]

Ptrope: To me, it looks like the starship bridge was designed and built by a tacky Las Vegas casino!

Q2

 

[Bernard Guignard]

The carpet reminds me of my in-laws living room...(Seriously, I'll have to get a pic of it...) Anyhow, very nice. Ptrope, do you still have that re imaged pilot-bridge you were working on?

Eventually, I'll have that model finished - I've been finishing up a rec room based on the one barely seen a couple times in TOS and cut entirely from "Elaan of Troyius", but as you can see ... I'm really easily distracted, esp. by shiny things . At any rate, I need to finish up the rec room, then the '4th-season' engineering set, and then finally the Pike:TNG bridge. And then I'll really work up the steam bridge - unless I get distracted again, or I decide to go ahead and go nuts, building a whole new steam bridge from scratch and selling it. At the moment, it's just a giddy exercise .

And there's progress! I started the captain's chair, and this is very much a work in progress - I had a lot more done, but my machine locked up and I lost most of it .

Video (AVI, Xvid)

Very nice Just add a head rest and weve got a Captain's/Barber chair Great work on it.