Miranda-class pods?

[SicOne]

If anyone is interested in other fan-made designs with alternate configurations, most of them could be found in the Frigates section.

Gebirg, thanks for the link to that schematic site! I had forgotten that site still existed!

Heh...I sometimes forget it's there myself and I own the bloody thing!

Planning a big Yamato update in the coming months once I acquire all the Official Fact Files from Japan. I'm up to 43 now and I think there will be 70 total. I will have a few BSG and Trek updates to include at that time as well.

Have you seen the trailers for the Space Battleship Yamato live-action movie that is direct-to-DVD? I don't know when it will be released outside of Japan, though.

 

[137th Gebirg]

OH yes! I most definitely have. It appears they have done a great tribute to the original anime. I SO wish I knew Japanese. I'm still waiting for the recent WWII "Otoko-tachi no Yamato" ("Men of Yamato") film to get a proper translation treatment. I am hoping, however, that Voyager Entertainment will get a hold of it and do the translation. I think they're looking for a new project to tackle, and that would be a good one if they can secure the licensing. And if I can get my hands on schematics for ships from that movie, they will definitely appear in the database as well.

There's also this Yamato: Resurrection project that I've been seeing footage for that has an older Kodai in a proper Captain's uniform running the rebuilt/refit Yamato. I've been trying to do some digging, but much of the information has been blurred in recent years due to the prolonged incarceration and subsequent passing of Yoshinobu Nishizaki, coupled with his legal battles against Reiji Matsumoto for the rights to the property.

 

[lennier1]

With so much going on in those fleet scenes, and the Mirandas so much background action... why bother changing the existing model/CGI?

Oh it's good and all... just can't see why they'd take the time to make a change like that and it won't hardly get noticed (or even matter).

Bigger and more important FX slip-ups went unnoticed, yet they took time to do stuff like this. I can't figure it.

Remember, Behind Trek's ships are people like Doug Drexler, John Eaves and Pierre Drolet. They love to tinker with details, but they're still only human and the production team has to work under a very tight schedule.

 

[SchwEnt]

^^^ yes, i know about the hectic production pace and all that. that's why i was puzzled about the miranda modifications. if the pressure's on to get the work done,
why take time to change the mirandas when they will only flash onscreen briefly, and are largely background anyway. if it's crunch time for the production, they could simply use mirandas as-in.

 

[David cgc]

Who knows. Maybe that was the first episode with the CG Miranda and someone who wasn't a die-hard, memorize-every-bolt trekkie like us did the impulse pod accidentally, and then a couple shots slipped through before they fixed it. Maybe there was a file error with the model and someone just slapped in a duplicate engine on the pod to cover it.

Personally, I think it's more likely an accident than a deliberately introduced variant, myself.

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ That would likely explain the reverse roll-bar on the Trial, too.

 

[Timo]

... the CG Miranda ...

It sounds likely to me that there would be distinct "foreground" and "background" versions of the ships used in the fleet scenes: the latter would be applied as often as possible, to cut down on the computational load. Taking the time to put together a low-resolution background version would actually save time later on.

Do we have evidence of there being "background" Excelsiors or Akiras as well? Some of the Nebulas do look distinct from the close-up version seen in VOY...

Timo Saloniemi