Kirk's Television Enterprise Deck Plans WIP

[Mytran]

Hello! I found out about this BBS just a few weeks ago.
(Hard to believe, I know.)
I have been a life long fan of STAR TREK. I grew up on TOS (I am 58 years old).
I worked in Engineering for 31 years full-time, and retired at the end of 2017.
During that time (for 20+ years) I was drawing, printing, and selling decals part-time. I build scale models; the decal business started from my desire to make my own markings for my models. People liked my work and wanted copies.
Five months after I retired I had a stroke.
I draw mostly for myself now, my own projects, interests, ideas, etc.
For the past few months I have been drawing my own interpretation of the deck plans for the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. My starting point was the FJ plans. I am governed by 3 criteria:
1. The details of the ship's layout as relayed in THE MAKING OF STAR TREK.
2. What was see and hear on-screen in the original 79 episodes.
3. The details visible on the 11-foot studio model.
Happily, the conclusions I came to - with respect to the layout of key features in the ship - parallel many of the design ideas I am finding in this BBS.
I will post this same message in several threads, so as to initiate conversations and/or private messages.
I have posted a few images in Facebook. I will post here too, as soon as I familiarize myself with how this BBS works.
I am most interested in communicating with WARPED9, BLSSDWLF, and ROBERT COMSOL.

Thank you.


Jim Botaitis

Sadly still no sign of @Robert Comsol returning

 

[Maurice]

Hello! I found out about this BBS just a few weeks ago...
I will post this same message in several threads, so as to initiate conversations and/or private messages...

Hi Jim.

Just an FYI: you might want to read the board rules (link) about posting before you bump any more long defunct threads or post the same thing in multiple threads, which is considered spamming.

 

[Michael]

Hello! I found out about this BBS just a few weeks ago.
(Hard to believe, I know.)
I have been a life long fan of STAR TREK. I grew up on TOS (I am 58 years old).
I worked in Engineering for 31 years full-time, and retired at the end of 2017.
During that time (for 20+ years) I was drawing, printing, and selling decals part-time. I build scale models; the decal business started from my desire to make my own markings for my models. People liked my work and wanted copies.
Five months after I retired I had a stroke.
I draw mostly for myself now, my own projects, interests, ideas, etc.
For the past few months I have been drawing my own interpretation of the deck plans for the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. My starting point was the FJ plans. I am governed by 3 criteria:
1. The details of the ship's layout as relayed in THE MAKING OF STAR TREK.
2. What was see and hear on-screen in the original 79 episodes.
3. The details visible on the 11-foot studio model.
Happily, the conclusions I came to - with respect to the layout of key features in the ship - parallel many of the design ideas I am finding in this BBS.
I will post this same message in several threads, so as to initiate conversations and/or private messages.
I have posted a few images in Facebook. I will post here too, as soon as I familiarize myself with how this BBS works.
I am most interested in communicating with WARPED9, BLSSDWLF, and ROBERT COMSOL.

Thank you.


Jim Botaitis

Welcome to the board, @Jim Botaitis! We're always happy to have new folks joining and it's very polite that you are introducing yourself to us.

But as other members have already been indicating, it's not mandatory to do so, let alone in several threads with the same text, which I'd have to judge as spamming should you do it again. It's also problematic that you posted in dead threads where the original posters haven't been around for a long time and aren't likely to respond. Please take a moment and study the board rules and the fan art forum specific FAQs to familiarize yourself with the local etiquette.

That said, I'm looking forward to seeing you share your own fan art creations. Just start your own thread and post away. We don't bite.