Type-7 Shuttle Mk-1
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OK, I got annoyed with all the inaccuracies and started again. This time i blew up a small thumbnail blueprint I found of the Probert concept ship and used that as my blueprint to model from. Here's a test to see how the hull is looking...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2778/4307166561_a39cceb57e_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4307166071_4982d774ee_o.jpg
I'm still working on the spline cage for this, effectively the bones of the model that I pull the skin over. It's a fiddly business doing organic shapes like this, trying to avoid pinching and bits getting all warped and so forth. At least now it's got the correct proportions and the missing cutouts and stuff.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2778/4307166561_a39cceb57e_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4307166071_4982d774ee_o.jpg
I'm still working on the spline cage for this, effectively the bones of the model that I pull the skin over. It's a fiddly business doing organic shapes like this, trying to avoid pinching and bits getting all warped and so forth. At least now it's got the correct proportions and the missing cutouts and stuff.
Very nice and detailed!
I love the TNG shuttle. Very pretty. I thought it was a beautiful evolution from TOS's shuttle.
Very nice work. As I said, I love this shuttle. 
That's probably because it's bloody hard to get right. I'm still trying to figure out how the hell the nacelles are attached to the body, and how the little grille between the nacelle and the body is done. If any of you have that model he's selling, send me close-ups of that area and I'll buy you a pint if I ever meet you.
I think, based on the references cited in this thread that it wouldn't be that hard to come up with an MSD-style cutaway of this craft. I already have one of the type 6/8, and I don't think the interior layout would be much different, with folding bench seats in the back with a toilet under one of them. It's about the same height but 5 feet longer, with a different arrangement for the hatch and probably an access panel in the aft for the cabin to the impulse engines and other equipment back there. And they almost certainly would have used a slightly modified version of the type 6 if filming a scene inside a type 7, anyway.
They did, without mods, in "Chain of Command". But a dedicated interior existed for the first half of TNG, consisting of a suitably shaped forward cabin and a later added midsection, and suggesting a hidden aft section. I'd say there could be much more to the interior of this craft than just a single hollow space...
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
I once designed a TNG "runabout" set in TNG's 2nd season, based on the general Type-7 profile. If I can find the drawing, I'll scan and post it.
If I do make a cutaway, any reference would be helpful, so I don't get too far down the wrong track on the first try. But this thread was a reminder that I probably should look into it, especially since people are fond of this shuttllecraft.