Indulging My Inner Trekkie Yet Again

ghoyle1 · November 26th, 2006, 09:48 PM

I'm trying to broaden my grasp of Cinema 4D and modelling in general, and decided to try modelling a ship from the scematics. Here are my crude first steps. Does anybody recognize the model?

ghoyle1 · November 26th, 2006, 09:49 PM

More shots

ghoyle1 · November 26th, 2006, 09:55 PM

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/ar...f359-other.htm (under "Star Trek Phase II Prototypes")

This is the version most people are familiar with, which is different from the ones on the schematics above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:P...enterprise.jpg

ghoyle1 · November 26th, 2006, 09:56 PM

IMO, this could make a halfway decent pre-TOS ship, and I think that's the direction I'll be going with it. Any comments so far?

Guy

evil_genius_180 · November 26th, 2006, 10:04 PM

Now you've definitely got my attention. I've thought of modeling this ship more than once myself. I'll have to check those schematics out.

Looks like a great start so far.

ghoyle1 · November 26th, 2006, 10:12 PM

Thanks! That's high praises coming from you. One reason I chose this was that nobody else seems to have done one, at least that I can find.

It'll be slow going, though, as school starts back up again this week.

Guy

ghoyle1 · November 26th, 2006, 10:15 PM

Time for a little more, I guess... changed the dorsal a bit. Not as accurate, but looks better.

I wasn't quite sure what to do with the front of the engineering hull at first, but I've grown to like the version I came up with. Very different from what we're used to, at least.

evil_genius_180 · November 26th, 2006, 10:35 PM

Looks great. This ship is so freakin' awesome.

My main reason for not doing it before is lack of resources. Ralph McQuarrie designs rule.

BTW, on what page did you find those schematics? The guy that runs that site doesn't allow hot linking to images because it kills his bandwidth.

November 27th, 2006, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

BTW, on what page did you find those schematics? The guy that runs that site doesn't allow hot linking to images because it kills his bandwidth.

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evil_genius_180 · November 27th, 2006, 01:26 AM

Didn't think of that. I've got the one in the middle, it's from The Art of Star Trek, but the others are new to me. I suppose nobody bothered with a bottom view of the ship.

November 27th, 2006, 11:11 AM

I had always wondered about this design. From the wiki pict you linked to before it looks like the saucer is going one way, and the nacells are pointing backwards.

It will be an interesting build

ghoyle1 · November 27th, 2006, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

BTW, on what page did you find those schematics? The guy that runs that site doesn't allow hot linking to images because it kills his bandwidth.

Dang, I did it again, and I KNOW better. I'll edit those links since etwtewtew posted the pix. It's at http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/ar...f359-other.htm under "Star Trek Phase II Prototypes."

evil_genius_180 · November 27th, 2006, 08:47 PM

Thanks for the link.

I've got that site bookmarked under my 3D resources, but I don't know where everything is because it's huge. Also, I must confess, I usually just go to the starship galleries to get resources.

November 27th, 2006, 09:55 PM

BTW... What happened with the other project?

ghoyle1 · November 29th, 2006, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by morganzacd5p

BTW... What happened with the other project?

I hit a bit of a creative wall, as well as a lot of stress at work, and wanted something else to stretch my brains a bit. I'll post a few pics soon, if I get a chance.

November 29th, 2006, 06:50 PM

Know what you mean... I have to hop between 4 projects to keep from blocks.