Proper views of STXI ships

[Captain Robert April]

The drawings won't be superior for reference, though, because they will be wrong.i

That doesn't follow. All existing drawings of the TOS Enterprise are "wrong" but are superior reference tools, for most purposes, to photographs of it.

Exact drawings of the TOS ship, detailing just how out-of-round the primary hull is, how non-parallel the nacelles are, and how one nacelle is longer than the other, would be rather horrid looking.

 

[tobiasrichter]

The Newton/Mayflower/etc kitbashes that I did were based on the small sketches in the "art of" book, so by no means are they accurate - they only served as tiny background ships for the SotL calendar image.

The E that I did (and re-did two times) is by now a very accurate replica of the ILM model - in shape, dimensions and detail. Earlier this year I made some Orthos of the new model, you can download them here:
www.thelightworks.com/images/gallery/illu/lrg/uss_enterprise_new_ortho.jpg

Hope these will help...

 

[F. King Daniel]

^That's awesome Do you have a matching one for your SotL Kelvin?

 

[tobiasrichter]

Not yet, sorry. I might do that sometime in the future.

 

[Timo]

I'm definitely looking forward to that - although my main interest is in the more obscure, "bashed" ships because of the very fact that they cannot be measured or modeled accurately from the scarce movie visuals.

I guess the hero ship is already as "available" as it will ever be, as there are plenty of angles on her, plenty of zoom-ins, and even some nice side, forward and top views used in promotional material that might be (and seem to be) exact matches of the "real" ship. As a consequence, the fan artwork is both gorgeous and "sufficiently accurate"; the material on the obscure ships is merely gorgeous so far!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[publiusr]

I like CGI fine, but line drawings look better to me for some reason, even if less photogenic obviously. BTW Jayru is back with more updates to his Ingram. at fedref.

 

[Dukhat]

^That's awesome Do you have a matching one for your SotL Kelvin?

Here are the front, top, and side views that I have:

http://www.box.net/shared/z24hyy9481

http://www.box.net/shared/md6grsc5os

http://www.box.net/shared/3dzl1znhbv

 

[F. King Daniel]

^Those are great!

Thanks very much