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Published: 2017-11-20 22:53:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 3072; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 72
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More as so that I can work out if the exterior details make sense than anything else, but I do like a good cross-section, so some bits are going to get detailed.I imagine the bridge as very busy, but with everyone sitting down. I think any 'first warp five ship' is going to get a bit rocky, so I wanted to give everyone a decent seat and a safety harness - I mean, just think how many lives could have been saved over the years if Starfleet had invested in some decent seatbelts and not had everyone sitting on cheap office furniture that went flying at the first hint of a shaky camera?!
The bridge will also extend further back, with an astrogation alcove, because I rather liked that detail from the actual ST:Enterprise bridge.
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I think it is a great idea to think about interior structures as you design your own version of a Star trek ship.
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Everything else! Basically, I picture the bridge of this ship to be very busy, rather mission-control in that regard. So the rear terminals are all engineering and systems monitoring for the background extras to man.
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Right. Thanks. Why not do some more images of the inside?
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Simply that I haven't built most of it yet!
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Why don't you build it then? Just a recommendation.
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For a moment looking at the thumbnail I thought it wasn't a cross-section, just a ship without a hull and was reminded of the Exo III android ship from Jeffrey Lang's Immortal Coil.
Basically it was the skeletonized framework of a constitution-class. Just the essential components aside from life support systems without a hull to protect them from direct exposure to space. The results of mechanical minds without the capability for creativity or aesthetics building a duplicate of technology they'd observed and knew functioned.
The crew had the same sort of brutalist mechanistic appearance.
As a starting point, imagine actual robots with rubber faces made mobile by skeletal frameworks subsurface armatures and servos beneath the artificial flesh . Then cover the machinery in a rudimentary layer of tightly stretched plastic with no thought taken as to appearance, just keeping the insides in and contaminants which could clog the machinery out. Completed androids would have had another layer of more realistic-looking artificial skin applied over their protective dust cover to make them look like their creator species, although since they functioned perfectly well without it and their creators were long since too extinct to care what their androids looked like, they didn't bother with this.
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That sounds quite interesting, certainly from an aesthetic point of view. Though I will say, as interesting as a skeleton ship would be to look at, I think you'd always need some kind of solid protection against the perils of space travel.
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Could you model more interiors of various ships and similar craft, if possible?
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I'm afraid it's not something I want to make too much of a habit of. I like doing it, don't get me wrong, but I'll probably focus on specific craft I'm designing from scratch, with the possible exception of a Dalek saucer if I can ever break the curse that stops me ever getting anyway with that!
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It's nice to see a good representation of the skeleton of the ship. I can see the halls in the Dish, and all those structural girders. Nice!
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Do you think you'd ever have a stab at doing something like this for a Dalek saucer? Their internal structure has always been kept rather ambiguous throughout the years.
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I've tried to model a saucer (with at least some interior) before but something always goes wrong! I do want to do it - it's holding up my Dalek Evolution series of pictures because the next one is space-flight - but I've no idea when I'll manage it. This would be the 60s version of course, not the modern one - I've no plans to tackle one of those as yet. But you never know.
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That's completely fair. Best of luck with overcoming those hurdles.
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