Here are the last 2 shuttle images. For some reason, I never rendered any of the completed shuttle with the doors open. However, if anybody wants to see it with the doors open, I will gladly render an image or 2.
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Originally Posted by iain
I wish the pictures were still there.
I had started a Truespace Phase 2 Enterprise a while back, but the engines got to me. Like you I used the model in the book as a guide, and filled in the rest with my imagination.
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I used all kinds of resources on this, though the book and David Shaw's cleaned-up versions of Matt Jefferies' original schematic drawings were my main sources. Since even the schematics in the book were wrong, I used the original schematics for all shapes and they were the deciding factor for the location of the completed details they showed. Though, I also had Mike Minor paintings of the ship and a wonderful side view that someone did (looked like it was based off the Minor paintings) and some complete (though not very accurate) schematics. Between all of that, I filled in the missing details as best I could.
Though I found those engines to be the most daunting task also, which is why I attempted them first, though they wound up not being that bad. Basically, I took them a part at a time, starting with the front, which required a spline and a lathe and then some deforming to get the shape to match Matt Jefferies' drawings. Then, for the main body back to where it transitions into the round part, I just swept the face on back of the front. Then the back was basically a deformed cylinder. Again, I used Matt's original drawings to get the shape. And the parts with the grills consisted of a cylinder with a sphere in front and some booleans. The parts where the front shape rounds back into the cylindrical section in back I did with another couple of lathes and some deformation. Basically, once you break it down, it's a bunch of pretty simple shapes.
I included a 4 view on the nacelle that I just rendered a little bit ago. The first view shows the nacelle broken down into what I consider to be the 3 main sections. I don't know if any of that helps, but there it is. I'd also be glad to share any references I have with you, if you're thinking of trying the ship again.
