Silly me. It’s already on my “to do” list.
Unseen TOS....
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I like this design. I always like to envision the function for the external features of ships. For your design, I envision only the top blister deck(s) to include the bridge and all the living space for the ~20 man crew. The entire aft-half of the ship is the engineering section for warp drive, power generation and impulse engines. The upper forward section is multipurpose cargo holds (less the deflector dish equipment). The forward section of the belly bulge is for sensor and other scientific/exploration instrumentation, possibly with more living quarters for guests/scientists/passengers. The aft portion of the belly bulge could include more storage, or more likely, the loading and unloading facilities and/or even a shuttle bay. I'm baffled by the two aft hull bulges under the engines; extra fuel tanks, landing gear (unlikely)?Current status. Slowly working things out.
Good one! It really looks like one of those travel steamers you carry in your luggage.
Based on the actual structure inside all that yellow glow, I think I know what they might have used. I'm building a replica of it from a Russian 60's era T-62 tank top. Hopefully I'll be done painting it soon and will post it in the fan art section.
Lack of budget to build actual models.
True that, but it makes for undramatic TV. Likewise no wooshing in space. But the scene was undramatic without it.
Well, ‘realistically’ is the key word. Realistically, there’s no sound in space, but that doesn’t stop Star Trek.
Fun fact: the red/yellow spinning light effect that was used for the Orion ship in “Journey to Babel" was also used for the Ekosian V-2 rocket in “Patterns of Force.” Ergo, up close the Orion ship actually looked like a V-2 rocket
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Could be the display showing a "false color" indicating the power level of the ship. Or the ship could actually be glowing due to it's power output or some visible effect of the propulsion or power system.
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Sure. Feedback is welcome.
I admit I haven't given this a truly reasoned consideration to what all the parts represent. I was somewhat free-flowing ideas in terms of what semed to look right. The pods under the main section could house various sensors and analytical equipment. Or they could be specialized equipment for specific missions. If I do reuse this design than those pods would be replaced with some form of hookup to a cargo container or the whole ship would be a modified configuration with a different lower section permanently attached.
Lots of room to speculate.
I do like the idea of being able to reuse the model, modified or not, to depict other Starfleet or Federation ships. It would have added more to the TOS universe we saw onscreen.
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Thanks bro
Okay we are all familiar with these two shots (I designated them Type I and Type II respectively:
Type I
Type II
Now looking at those two, you'll notice that Type I has an angular shape while Type II has a more streamline shape...this is how I saw those (look at the top left-hand corner:
From Type I (I chose that one to work with as it to me looks more like something constructed rather than poured) I noticed that the shape in the screenshots could be a 3/4 view showing dorsal-side and maybe aft (that is if the ship was going on an angle upward from left to right. From that I came up with possible hull shapes that you see above, and I then further refined to these:
Now I do know I have a penchant for asymmetry, but I believe that front spire may be a sensor probe of some type, rather than hull. I also believe the asymmetry holds up to the images strong than a structure in the middle.
Just my two cents on the matter.
Thanks...That looks awesome and also like it could be a really plausible ship.
Here is something I just whipped up, so you can see what I do:
or in any case I would totally go for that ship. Similar threads
