50 years ago today (so I'm told http://trekplace.com/fj-timeline.html) Franz Joseph (Schnaubelt) (1914-1994) and Ballantine Books published The Star Trek Blueprints aka The Booklet of General Plans (BOGP).
So for the 50th anniversary of this incredible landmark work I'm boldly going where Vektor (Jason Lee) has gone before. But I'm also boldly where I have gone before. The first 3D model I ever made in 1989 on the Atari 1040st was the Enterprise (of course) and the reference that I used was FJ's plans. So knowingly or not, this was the ship that I built.
I purchased a used copy of the BOGP on September 8th (I never realized that date before!) 1985. To call them life changing would not be an understatement. This was one of my first steps into an area of fandom that has never lost it's fascination for me. (The first Star Trek blueprints that I bought were Larry Miller's U.S.S. Hornet plans earlier that summer at PhoenixCon. My gateway drug. Thank you Mr. Miller, wherever you are.)
This has been about five months in the making. For a set of documents I've known for almost 40 years this has been a voyage of discovery.
Obviously FJ's Enterprise is a whole different beast compared to the 11 foot studio model. But I think there are more than a few influences from the AMT kit and of course Matt Jefferies' sketches.
This was modeled, textured, rendered, and composited with Blender. Some texture work was also done with GIMP. A little bit of sound work in Audacity.
Thank you to all the people who gave feedback to this project. Some are members here and some are not.
By the way, if the coloring of the markings, lights, and hull seems a little unusual, I was going by this: http://trekplace.com/fj-gallery-colorguide.html Thank you, Greg Tyler!
The Booklet of General Plans:
Some beauty shots:
So for the 50th anniversary of this incredible landmark work I'm boldly going where Vektor (Jason Lee) has gone before. But I'm also boldly where I have gone before. The first 3D model I ever made in 1989 on the Atari 1040st was the Enterprise (of course) and the reference that I used was FJ's plans. So knowingly or not, this was the ship that I built.
I purchased a used copy of the BOGP on September 8th (I never realized that date before!) 1985. To call them life changing would not be an understatement. This was one of my first steps into an area of fandom that has never lost it's fascination for me. (The first Star Trek blueprints that I bought were Larry Miller's U.S.S. Hornet plans earlier that summer at PhoenixCon. My gateway drug. Thank you Mr. Miller, wherever you are.)
This has been about five months in the making. For a set of documents I've known for almost 40 years this has been a voyage of discovery.
Obviously FJ's Enterprise is a whole different beast compared to the 11 foot studio model. But I think there are more than a few influences from the AMT kit and of course Matt Jefferies' sketches.
This was modeled, textured, rendered, and composited with Blender. Some texture work was also done with GIMP. A little bit of sound work in Audacity.
Thank you to all the people who gave feedback to this project. Some are members here and some are not.
By the way, if the coloring of the markings, lights, and hull seems a little unusual, I was going by this: http://trekplace.com/fj-gallery-colorguide.html Thank you, Greg Tyler!
The Booklet of General Plans:
Some beauty shots:
