deg3D_TOS.5 Enterprise

[deg3D]

someday we need to have all the TOS Enterprises from the 3d Artists...

Santaman, for the record; this 3D artist's ENTERPRISE is TOS.5 ENTERPRISE.

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[Praetor]

Those are some beautiful shots! I think I've found this week's wallpaper!

 

[Professor Moriarty]

TOS'ers know this one eh...

(Not to compete with Tallguy's excellent WNMHGB shot, we just happen to be thinkin' of the same shot of late it seems. )

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It's only a model. - Patsy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What sells this shot is the subtle motion blur and the green-blue fill lighting from starboard. Beautiful.

 

[Santaman]

someday we need to have all the TOS Enterprises from the 3d Artists...

Santaman, for the record; this 3D artist's ENTERPRISE is TOS.5 ENTERPRISE.

deg

But it IS an Enterprise so yours count as well HA!

 

[deg3D]

someday we need to have all the TOS Enterprises from the 3d Artists...

Santaman, for the record; this 3D artist's ENTERPRISE is TOS.5 ENTERPRISE.

deg

But it IS an Enterprise so yours count as well HA!

Ya got me there eh.

deg

 

[Outpost4]

This may be my favorite render you've done so far, deg. So subtle and understated. It makes the Enterprise look magnificent.

 

[deg3D]

This may be my favorite render you've done so far, deg. So subtle and understated. It makes the Enterprise look magnificent.

Thanks dude. Yes, I quite like it for the same reasons myself.

BTW, your avie cracks me up!

Spock... Help me Spock... wait a sec... Bozo..., is that you? Well then...

Bozo... Help me Bozo...

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[Outpost4]

Thanks. Evil clowns!

Let's also thank Mr. Jefferies. This is hardly a new observation on my part, but the NCC-1701 looks so good from so many different angles and lighting. It has majesty from almost any direction. Even the belly view we get in Tomorrow is Yesterday, an angle we almost never saw the Enterprise from, makes it look strong.

As opposed to the NCC-1701D, which looks good from only one angle, a 3/4 bow shot from underneath.

Again, let's applaud the design genius of Matt Jefferies.

 

[deg3D]

Thanks. Evil clowns!

Let's also thank Mr. Jefferies. This is hardly a new observation on my part, but the NCC-1701 looks so good from so many different angles and lighting. It has majesty from almost any direction. Even the belly view we get in Tomorrow is Yesterday, an angle we almost never saw the Enterprise from, makes it look strong.

As opposed to the NCC-1701D, which looks good from only one angle, a 3/4 bow shot from underneath.

Again, let's applaud the design genius of Matt Jefferies.

Indeed, let's.

deg

 

[Santaman]

The 1701 always had that certain elegance about it... excelent render Mr deg.. you managed to capture that tall ship feeling very well.

 

[JJohnson]

Awesome work! One request - please put the Franz Joseph phasers on top of the E, and add the aft torpedo launcher from the Defiant's appearance in Enterprise. They fill some very precarious gunnery blind spots in the Enterprise, and make it more realistic in my opinion.

Keep it up!

James

 

[JJohnson]

Perhaps instead of being one giant leg, the two long triangles are either a sliding open door for the real leg, or a multi-segmented leg, enabling it to become a flat foot on the planet surface to distribute the weight of the ship, including an aft leg concealed with the dorsal.

James

One of the semi-pro tech manuals originally available through Lincoln Enterprises (I think it was the "officer's Manual") suggested, via illustrations drawn by Doug Drexler, that the "neck" linking the primary saucer with the engineering cylinder stayed connected to the saucer (rather than the secondary hull). The "neck" served as a third "leg" when the "triangles" angled downwards to form legs. Crew could then exit the "C57D" inspired arrangement via the "neck".

My problem with this arrangement are the "triangles". As depicted in the diagram, their "points" would bear the majority of the saucer's weight. To accomodate the height of the "neck", the triangles had to angle almost vertical. Unless the saucer landed upon solid basalt rock, the triangles would sink into the soil, causing the emergency landing craft to tip dangerously forward.

One thing I did like from that book was the idea the turbolift cars could double as escape pods. There was considerable hardware underneath the floor for life suggest and modest flight correction. The top of the car contained descent foils (parachutes).

Sincerely,

Bill

Yes, I had heard long ago Bill, the idea of the dorsal pylon acting as the rear gear. Funny, I never thought of them coming down as vertical stilts. Seems in some ways (your well-made stability point aside), a better concept than what I had imagined.

I had always imagined them coming straight down and the tris acting as pads. The tris would then also have to be able to flex level, as they (when retracted) contour to the shape of the hull. If so, there would have to be some lateral sectional lines for them to work/flex properly. However, given the depth of the saucer, don't ask me where the leg(s) hardware would be able to be stored. Even if the legs had multiple scissor pivots, that would still be pushing it as far as storage space goes (esp. if trying to match the dorsal pylon's height as read gear).

Still, as to what you were referring to. I believe that is "after-the-fact" (albeit pro-based) conceptualization-al extrapolation (which is still fine IMO), as I don't beleive Gene conceived it that way, as even in TNG, the saucer-sep'ed at the join-root hi-side of the pylon.

And, I believe I remember seeing a drawing(s) of the refit, with the saucer/dorsal pylon connector mechanism being at the top of the pylon. But I am not sure if that was "Gene conceived," although it was done at the time of production for TMP, and TGBOTG was still alive and involved. Either way, all very to think and talk about.

I like the tubolift/escape pod concept too eh.

There would have to be some sort of rear gear as well to stabilize the weight distribution.

No argument there, but even in your own (excellent might I add) model there are any number of panels where some rear gear might pop down.

Thanks dude. And that is a very good point, at least with my TOS.5 version, as those other panels were not there in the TOS version. They were there in the refit though, which is what I based my new paneling on.

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[deg3D]

Thanks very much guys.

She finished at this point JJohnson. That's an interesting concept for the tris though.

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[deg3D]

Felt like making a scene to break things up while painting my Sherman-Class Cargo Drone...

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It's only a model. - Patsy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[deg3D]

TOS'ers know this one eh...

(Not to compete with Tallguy's excellent WNMHGB shot, we just happen to be thinkin' of the same shot of late it seems. )

deg

It's only a model. - Patsy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What sells this shot is the subtle motion blur and the green-blue fill lighting from starboard. Beautiful.

Oh, missed that post Scott, thanks much dude.

deg

 

[Wingsley]

Felt like making a scene to break things up while painting my Sherman-Class Cargo Drone...

deg

It's only a model. - Patsy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Check out the intro bumper music when the Enterprise is shown orbiting the planet in the very opening scene of "By Any Other Name". Now set deg3D's image to motion and play that music with it!

 

[Santaman]

Nice work, as usual.

 

[Sarvek]

Felt like making a scene to break things up while painting my Sherman-Class Cargo Drone...

deg

It's only a model. - Patsy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fantastic work. Are you planning on doing any other ship designs from TAS or any shuttles? Keep up the great work.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... those are the BEST ramscoops I've ever seen on any Trek ship.

 

[c5maier]

Fantastic work. Are you planning on doing any other ship designs from TAS or any shuttles? Keep up the great work.

I totally agree.

It seems you are really providing fantastic building blocks for a visual re-creation of TAS (Didn't you also mention a Klingon D7 project somewhere?) With those beautiful ship-meshes of yours the space scenes of "More Tribbles, more Troubles" could be perfected and with stock footage from "Trouble with Tribbles", half the work on that episode would be done already.