Matt Jefferies original shuttle design
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Re: Matt Jeffries original shuttle design
Oh, I see what you mean. That doesn't bother me as much as the idea of having a sensor housed in the light box. it would seem that an EM sensor would be impacted by a big, powerful landing light. Particularly while landing.
Maybe consider putting three of those little sensor dishes recessed, out on the nose, a'la the three big circles on the front edge of the 1701 saucer. Then the boxes on the wings could be devoted to lights alone and not interfere with anything.
I just love this boat. I wanna build a model of it in the same scale as a model of my Kiaga and have this bad boy drop out of the underside bay.
Oh, I see what you mean. That doesn't bother me as much as the idea of having a sensor housed in the light box. it would seem that an EM sensor would be impacted by a big, powerful landing light. Particularly while landing.
Maybe consider putting three of those little sensor dishes recessed, out on the nose, a'la the three big circles on the front edge of the 1701 saucer. Then the boxes on the wings could be devoted to lights alone and not interfere with anything.
I just love this boat. I wanna build a model of it in the same scale as a model of my Kiaga and have this bad boy drop out of the underside bay.
Re: Matt Jeffries original shuttle design
Mirror Universe version? That would be cool!I am so tempted to make an armed variant of this shuttle.
Re: Matt Jeffries original shuttle design
A practical concern: red and green navigational lights should be situated so that you can't see the red one from starboard, or the green one from port.
It would help if those lights were moved from the top of that flared section to the sides. Or if they were given opaque half-domes inboard. Or if they were moved slightly forward so that the rear hull would block the cross-view.
Another concern that is one-third aesthetic, one-third functional, one-third minding TOS precedent: shouldn't this craft have some access panels that are, well, accessible from ground level? The lower stern of the craft would be an ideal location for that...
Timo Saloniemi
A practical concern: red and green navigational lights should be situated so that you can't see the red one from starboard, or the green one from port.
It would help if those lights were moved from the top of that flared section to the sides. Or if they were given opaque half-domes inboard. Or if they were moved slightly forward so that the rear hull would block the cross-view.
Another concern that is one-third aesthetic, one-third functional, one-third minding TOS precedent: shouldn't this craft have some access panels that are, well, accessible from ground level? The lower stern of the craft would be an ideal location for that...
Timo Saloniemi
Re: Matt Jeffries original shuttle design
Great-looking model, but from the rear, it looks like, along the upper trailing edge, the geometry is needlessly complex. Farther forward, the raised center looks purposeful, but the notches, with the slight hiccup at their outboard edges, look out of place. I'd find a better way to blend the hull shape into the raised portion, something that looks like there is a structure beneath the skin, and not that the shapes were machined out of a block.
Other than that, the rear looks great!
Great-looking model, but from the rear, it looks like, along the upper trailing edge, the geometry is needlessly complex. Farther forward, the raised center looks purposeful, but the notches, with the slight hiccup at their outboard edges, look out of place. I'd find a better way to blend the hull shape into the raised portion, something that looks like there is a structure beneath the skin, and not that the shapes were machined out of a block.
Other than that, the rear looks great!
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I LOVE the smooth "moulded" look! I've always thought that the panelling effect that took place with runnabouts, and other small craft, was just too busy, and really not practical. Perhaps the odd access panel- super faint though, and only noticable in close up shots- standing close up to it. But otherwise, I'm envissioning very specific access areas for general repairs and so on. Modular bits that slide right out of the ship- or even the top half seperating from the bottom for extreme repairs, refitting...
This looks simply fantastic. Way to take an original concept and make it work fabulously! Now for some internal detail???
Some of the major decals have been applied. Finished with the materials on on the small bits.
I have learned one thing doing this ship that white is one of the hardest colors to get correct in a render. It either ends up looking too gray or just too bright and washed out.
Here is a beauty render:
1600x800 png version here
Here is a quick and dirty render of the top:
Going to finish up the materials at the rear impulse engine area of the ship next and figure out what I am going to do with the rear landing gear.
I'm debating if I want to add more detail with panel lines or not. I'm kinda diggin' the smooth look though... What do you guys think?
I LOVE the smooth "moulded" look! I've always thought that the panelling effect that took place with runnabouts, and other small craft, was just too busy, and really not practical. Perhaps the odd access panel- super faint though, and only noticable in close up shots- standing close up to it. But otherwise, I'm envissioning very specific access areas for general repairs and so on. Modular bits that slide right out of the ship- or even the top half seperating from the bottom for extreme repairs, refitting...
This looks simply fantastic. Way to take an original concept and make it work fabulously! Now for some internal detail???
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RedSpar, I really like that finish and wax job you put on the shuttle. But where did the soap and water run to? It seems to have dried up quickly in that West Coast sun...
BTW, did you ArmorAll the inside too?
RedSpar, I really like that finish and wax job you put on the shuttle. But where did the soap and water run to? It seems to have dried up quickly in that West Coast sun...
BTW, did you ArmorAll the inside too?
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I love this. I absolutely LOVE this. The Jefferies shuttle is so evocative of 1950's pulp sci-fi that it looks futuristic--what's old is new again!
Fantastic work, RedSpar!
I love this. I absolutely LOVE this. The Jefferies shuttle is so evocative of 1950's pulp sci-fi that it looks futuristic--what's old is new again!
Fantastic work, RedSpar!
