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Set blueprint exchange

Back in January I posted my first Star Trek blueprint made from scratch - the corridor arch of TNG and TMP. Since then I've improved my skills and decided to have another go with it. Whilst the overall size dims have not changed, the line intersection points have shifted slightly, and the top beam has been reduced in height. I feel it's now a lot closer to the actual set element.

Corridor Arch Part 1 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/20984224230/
Corridor Arch Part 2 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/20551340653/


The original version is still on flickr, but it has been marked "[Outdated]"
 
Firebird said:
This gem has popped up on eBay this week - an early version of the stage 9 sets for TNG: http://www.ebay.com/itm/16182668690...97&_trkparms=gh1g=I161826686904.N34.S1.R1.TR1

There's lots of notations on there directing how the construction crew would modify the standing film sets for the series. There's many little details that are different from the completed layout. Most importantly, many of the dimensions on the plan are visible.
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That is awesome, those dimensions are what I've needed for a long while.
 
Amazing find, both for the dimensions (yay! No more guessing) and the apparent order in which they modified the movie sets. The Cargo Bay was clearly there from the beginning, which perhaps explains its odd inclusion in Code Of Honor - had to justify the expense of building it somehow!
The early design of Warp Core is also fascinating, notably different from the final result.
 
Love how close my measurements were to the real thing. Got the transporter room door and teh smaller doors right. You can see the sickbay door was much smaller in the earlier seasons to the later ones. Does seem everyone was wrong about the set thoguh in one aspect, teh TNG sets were only 7" wide, not 8". So that's an interesting turn of events, Voyager's plans clearly said 8 so they must have widened the corridors between seasons 1 and 2, or between TMP and TNG.

and yea, TMP bridge, pre-battlebridge re-work.
 
Actually I think that's a "Phase 2" Bridge, notice the mini transporter on the side of the weapons station?

Regarding the corridors, there are actually THREE different widths on display: The corridor outside the cargo bay is 7'6", the one at the base of the double wide Engineering section is 7' and the standard one elsewhere is 8'. This last we know to be true thanks to a call out by the turbolift alcove, which lists 7'6" on the smaller end of the wedge shaped corridor there.

FWIW, Voyager did inherit the narrower 7' corridor by Engineering, and incorporated it into the standard corridor network
 
Mytran said:
Actually I think that's a "Phase 2" Bridge, notice the mini transporter on the side of the weapons station?
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It's the bridge in its TMP configuration; the weapons & defense station is in its corner configuration, rather than the giant globe they were going to use for PII. The mini-transporter on the front corner of the alcove was there in TMP (I think the idea was that small tools or things like medkits could be beamed to the bridge), then covered with panels incorporating greebles and some lights in TWOK.
 
There is a lot of cool stuff on that sheet. Getting a bit retro happy is certainly expected.
 
May seem like a silly question, but the various archives people are building here like on flickr. Are the images there original size or are they being compressed/resized by the cloud image host?
 
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Flickr does give the option to download the original size. I would imagine that Redgenneral is uploading the highest resolution available from the sources we have had. IE usually the images are from Ebay of a scan or a photograph and then ebay compresses down.
 
I'm back after a holiday without internet - I really like the finds by Count and Firebird

I've placed the Ferengi Bridge in the Misc alien set plans album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/albums/72157653638290091
It uses the octagon displays originally made for the Klingon bridge in TMP.

The stage 9 TNG plans with the great measurements have been put in the TNG Enterprise flickr set plans album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/albums/72157644182443257


I've just made a new album on flickr for concept art blueprints of set dressing items (items that contribute to the feel of a room, but aren't handeld props like phasers or padds)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/albums/72157658898239576
So far this new album has the TNG cargo lifter, computer terminal blocks, memory chip holder, banners from the Icarus Factor, and a holocube (I think this became a permanent feature of Data's quarters, but I'm not sure)
Source: http://www.geocities.jp/shin1701/rick-arts.html
[note the source has other interesting images such as concept art for handheld props]


Regarding the image sizes, they are uploaded to flickr at the same resolution as the source sites. The flickr pages show a scaled down preview if it's a large image, but the original image is available by clicking the downwards arrow icon.
 
I've just found a few DS9 blueprints on ebay and uploaded them to flickr.

Empok Nor Temple (Quark's bar)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21495081059/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21060933163/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21059225214/

Source: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine-Set-Blueprint-/252101542316?hash=item3ab26c41ac

Klingon bird of prey (DS9 - Return to grace)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21059087644/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21690968881/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21655698176/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21493925508/

Source: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine-Set-Blueprint-/252096462769?hash=item3ab21ebfb1


Unknown ST:DS9 blueprint - any ideas what this one is? The episode name is not given on the sheet.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21670426072/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21691041061/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21059159154/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99878876@N02/21059178074/

Source: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine-Set-Blueprint-/252101541083?hash=item3ab26c3cdbv
 
Its listed as a Cardassian armory, can't tell the production date looks like it says 2 or 3 - 24 - 95 or 96 or 98 Episode 749?

Looking through trek core, elev F is a window its was in DS9 Second Skin
 
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That DS9 Klingon BOP blueprint is the relist of the one i found ages ago, it's just missing the redress sheet showing how the bridge became and office/quarters.

the last Ds9 sheet looks like the Ore Processing centre from "civil defence". Having said that, the 1998 build date for the sheet indicates it was made during season 7 of DS9 and that was a season 3 episode.

According to what i've found, "episode 749" was the code for "what you leave behind".

EDIT: STOP! Hammer time!

It's the external door that Kira, Damar and Garak forgot to bring the bombs to blow open when they were seiging the Jem'Hadar headquarters on Cardassia prime. The layout matches. I think it may have been a redress of the armoury they bombed earlier in the season.
 
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