So, I made this.
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I'd suggest a tail-light be added as well but the aft end of the shuttlecraft isn't exactly tail-light friendly.
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HMMM... but are those really catapult rails of some sort (maglev, perhaps?), or just a convenience Richard Datin built into the hangar deck maquette so that Howard Anderson's visual effects team could drag the Galileo model along? In any event, the answer is yes--there will be three red stripes and they will kind of look like a triple set of grooves in the deck plating.
Considering that the landing gear on a class-F shuttlecraft is nothing but a tricycle of flat-ish pads, I always assumed the Galileo and her sister craft would simply take off and land kinda like a rotor-less helicopter, using anti-gravity (or some other semi-plausible science fictional treknology).
But it already has a taillight!
^^ I was thinking of a light more in line with aviation or nautical rules of the road which, in combination with the red/green ones. provides a visual clue to the orientation of the craft. (I've always suspected that MJ intended that blinking light on the TOS secondary hull to be the same.)
Well, Ricky's shuttle doesn't need to roll out after it lands. It doesn't even have wheels. It looks like he's got a good two shuttle lengths of deck space to put her down in. The other shuttle's take off is blocked, but maybe he has an emergency? I say he's got a young Lwaxana Troi on board, and she needs a husband NOW! What will Captain Kirk do? Call for an emergency jump to warp before the shuttle lands, or "hit it and quit it?"
I think we ALL know what Captain Kirk would do.
As for rolling around the vehicles after they're aboard, maybe those landing pads generate small pressor fields so that the shuttles can be easily pushed (or push themselves) like 24-foot-long pucks on an air hockey table.
Cool
I like to think the 3 rails act as a tractor/pressor array that guides the shuttle to the fantail where it departs like a VTOL or imparts a push to launch the shuttle. The rails act as a safety to prevent the shuttle from sliding into a bulkhead during the ship's hard maneuvers or being shaken about during an ion storm. When landing, it would be in reverse where the shuttle lands on the fantail, the rails lock the shuttle in place and slides it into the ship.(I just think of those youtube videos of someone demonstrating a quadcopter in an elevator.
)I like your anti-grav idea (from above) - the 3 pads are antigrav plates that can allow it to float or glide over the ground.
And very shortly after this incident, Ensign Ricky found himself assigned to Security:
Live your life like a Captain Kirk.
Don’t be an Ensign Ricky.
Don’t be an Ensign Ricky.
A temp background "courtesy of NASA", but the rest is all me. I was setting up a scene and couldn't quite figure out how to incorporate this camera angle, but I thought it was worth saving. So there you go.
Oh, that's BEAUTIFUL!
Very cool @Professor Moriarty
I see what you did there... you lifted the center doors up and over to slide over the side ones. Are you doing some sleight-of-hand tricks to get the doors to fit inside the hull and still conform to that opened shape?
Edit - I re-read your post in my thread about how you did it. Clever!
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No laws of 21st century physics or mechanical engineering were broken in the making of this image. Every shell segment slides over (not through!) its neighbor exactly as I described in your thread:
The timing of the vertical and horizontal transitions during rotation is crucial; there is barely enough clearance underneath the "control booth" as each door segment gets stacked atop its neighbor. If you look closely, I had to cheat a little bit and slightly shorten the height of the control booth and the height of the doors to make everything fit. But fit it all does. When I release the video (hopefully this weekend!) you'll see.
- Doors 3 and 4 (the center segments) open first. Their center of rotation slides out Z minus 250 mm and Y plus 132 mm, and then they begin rotating +/- 67.5 degrees.
- Doors 2 and 5 open next as doors 3 and 4 rotate in front of them. Their center of rotation also slides out Z minus 250 mm and Y plus 132 mm, and then they begin rotating +/- 45 degrees. (Doors 3 and 4 slide another Z minus 250 mm and Y plus 132 mm when this happens.)
- Doors 1 and 6 open last, as doors 2, 3, 4, and 5 rotate in front of them. Their center of rotation also slides out Z minus 250 mm and Y plus 132 mm, and then they begin rotating +/- 22.5 degrees. (Doors 2, 3, 4, and 5 transition another Z minus 250 mm and Y plus 132 mm when this happens.)
The timing of the vertical and horizontal transitions during rotation is crucial; there is barely enough clearance underneath the "control booth" as each door segment gets stacked atop its neighbor. If you look closely, I had to cheat a little bit and slightly shorten the height of the control booth and the height of the doors to make everything fit. But fit it all does. When I release the video (hopefully this weekend!) you'll see.
These renders look amazing, can't wait to see some video of it!
That's awesome! Yeah, I agree, some tweaking of the curves and curve setup will fix the movement. Looking forward to seeing the video
I find myself getting mesmerised by the level of detail in your renders and videos. Masterful work! Thank you for sharing it with us.
It took me a couple glances to realize there's a control booth right above the fantail, and that you didn't just randomly slap a weird multi-colored QR code onto the back of your model.
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