TOS shuttle cutaway
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Close enough for our purposes.
On my monitor, that lens cap is about the same side as the end of my thumb, and the shuttlecraft is about six thumbs wide.
So, 1 thumb = 2 3/8", 6 thumbs = 6 x 2 3/8 = 12 18/8 = 14 1/8.
Fudge it a bit and call it 14 1/2.
Extrapolate from there.
On my monitor, that lens cap is about the same side as the end of my thumb, and the shuttlecraft is about six thumbs wide.
So, 1 thumb = 2 3/8", 6 thumbs = 6 x 2 3/8 = 12 18/8 = 14 1/8.
Fudge it a bit and call it 14 1/2.
Extrapolate from there.
My guesses (on engines)...
The glowy red strip in back is a micro-impulse engine for use in space.
The big white glowy-thingies are either conventional (chemical) thruster for use in atmosphere - or part of the anti-gravity lift system.
The nacelles are a - almost - self-contained micro-warp engines (teh shuttle traveled at warp in "The Menagerie")...and the fuel is stored in the rear compartment maybe?
Or...maybe there is a micro-warp core back there, under the floor somewhere - with EPS-type conduits untd the floor to the nacelles...???
The glowy red strip in back is a micro-impulse engine for use in space.
The big white glowy-thingies are either conventional (chemical) thruster for use in atmosphere - or part of the anti-gravity lift system.
The nacelles are a - almost - self-contained micro-warp engines (teh shuttle traveled at warp in "The Menagerie")...and the fuel is stored in the rear compartment maybe?
Or...maybe there is a micro-warp core back there, under the floor somewhere - with EPS-type conduits untd the floor to the nacelles...???
Here's an update, with a couple of hopefully final tweaks. If the scaling of the seats and consoles disagrees with Warped9's, the main reason is that I based all measurements on the interior sets as seen on screen and tried to keep the whole thing as originally designed while compensating for difference in scale between the interior set and the mockup. But I certainly kept Warped9's work in mind the whole time.
Here's a link to a collection of DVD screencaps of the interior from Phil Broad's Web site dedicated to this shuttlecraft.
http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/STShuttlecraft/DVDimages/GalileoDVDimagesSht2.htm
The main link to that site is here:
http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/STShuttlecraft/GalileoTop.htm
Here's a link to a collection of DVD screencaps of the interior from Phil Broad's Web site dedicated to this shuttlecraft.
http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/STShuttlecraft/DVDimages/GalileoDVDimagesSht2.htm
The main link to that site is here:
http://www.cloudster.com/Sets&Vehicles/STShuttlecraft/GalileoTop.htm
Looks great! A few thoughts though, it looks like you've got one of the small side consoles on the door, that wouldn't work would it, or is that something else? Also, what about retracting the aft landing gear in a bit, and tilting the pad so everything fits snug against the back of the shuttle? Everything else looks spot on, IMHO.
Great work, Lcars. Warped9 really knows his shuttles, especially the Class F. I was originally going to suggest getting his help.
Have you thought of doing one of the alternate interior versions like we saw in Immunity Syndrome? The one Spock flew into the giant amoeba packed with scientific equipment? I always got the impression that particular shuttle might have been equipped with some external sensor mounts or something behind covers that we never got to see in the episode.
My first thought was to tilt that aft landing pad to be paralllel to the rear bulkhead. I still might redo it like that.
For the panel on the bulkhead this side of the door, the only way I know to really clarify that is to make the whole figure a port rather than starboard view (thereby showing each panel from the front [in solid blue-gray with some black dots]), but MSDs for Federation vessels are always facing as this one is. So we're viewing those panels from behind. You can't show everything in an MSD figure, and the viewer just has to know. But maybe outlining them in blue-gray would be a reasonable way to do that.
So like this:
And, of course, I've admired Warped9's schematics of this vessel for years, and those were my first reference and were helpful, but the overall approach here is different.
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