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captshade — Type J 'Vanguard' Multi-View
Published: 2011-07-05 08:29:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 5026; Favourites: 76; Downloads: 407
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The Type J Class Space-Station is a TOS design by Masao Okazaki. And is "seen" in the TOS era "Star Trek" novels series "Star Trek: Vanguard"Using what I refer to as my "Capitol Scale" (as my standard scale would have made this way to big), I used David Metlesits' USS Polaris as a scale reference.
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How convenient, I buy a Vanguard novel and I find this in my watchlist messeges. Nice.
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Kewl...I've yet to read them.
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Me too. Precipice is my first. I'd like to read the very first one but I can't find it.
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Let me know if it's any good.
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Very nice, Masao sure played his cards right in this design.
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So right that they actually used it in an episode of the remastered original series.
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Yeah, looks like they downscaled it though.
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Anytime...As I got the idea for drawing the station from your art.
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I know you stick to top, front and side views, but I think this would have been better viewed as a bottom, front and side view. I think the top just obscured a lot of the details you probably put a lot of work into.
Very well done!
Question, is your "capital scale" with clearly defined boundaries, or do you sort of wing it?
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Pretty defined...But there's some guesswork.
My "Capitol Scale" is fairly uniformed. And are all to scale with each-other. [link] [link] [link]
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I really meant, do you use the capital scale for anything over 1000 feet (for instance) or do you shoot more from the hip?
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From the hip, I suppose. There are factors I weigh, though.
Most starbases are big enough to hold a full size starship inside it, so those tend to get the smaller scaling. And supersized starships, like a Star Destroyer also fall into this.
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Thanks...I agree. I wish it were my design.
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you still did a Great Job in posting it!
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