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Published: 2012-07-11 20:02:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3735; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 114
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A Traveller starship originally drawn in 1988 for the MegaTraveller Rebellion Sourcebook by Rob Caswell [link]As no color images of these ships exist, I have no idea if the color scheme is anywhere near the imagined prototype
July 13th: Minor update. Tweaked the colors and bump mapping a little bit, assigned the proper material definition to the windows, left the dust layer of as it tinted the colors a bit too much for the moment and last but not least I forgot to turn of the shuttle's layer during rendering
Meet the 95ton Rosendal Class shuttle designed to fit into that channel (not visible here) underneath the hull.
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Mirco, this remains one of my favorite Traveller models. I can't believe I haven't fav'd this image before now. Stupid. Stupid. Stupis.
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It is the same for me. I always wanted to do this one. Mainly because nobody else had (so far). It was featured in my Traveller Calendar 2013 entry too (using this texture job: fav.me/d57snri) .
Thanks my friend
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Oh wow, it's cool to see this ship modeled! I think this may be the first 3D version I've ever seen. A fine addition to your earlier lineup.
As far as color scheme, I confess I didn't have anything in mind aside from making a nice B&W image, so any interpretation is valid. These days I think I'd lean more towards something like a brightly colored aircraft livery - especially for ships that can land (and thus have their exteriors easily viewed).
What app did you model this in?
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Thanks a lot for noticing the earlier lineup too 
Back when I actively played Traveller I was instantly hooked by just a few outstanding images and your Frontier Transport watered an a colony world with the sun going down in the background, the skyline of a city on the horizon and the action in the foreground was definitely among the top two or three images where I couldn't even decide which I liked best. Thanks for this superb inspiration, Rob.
So I will play a bit with two or three color variations I have in mind and keep you up to date
As for the app I use. I am on a tight budget and I use Blender for almost anything 3D by now (it used to be Cinema 4D in the past). Blender is an amazing piece of software - once one get the hang of it. I would probably continue using it even if I could afford 3D Studio MAX, Maya, Modo or C4D.
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I have been working with blender for about 2 weeks now and am loving it. It's still confusing the heck out of me, but I am happy with several ships I have produced so far.
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As a a friend of mine used to say: Blender is Rock'n'Roll
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I wish I still had the original or that Frontier Transport image. I think I gave it to either Tom Peters or Bryan Gibson.
I've heard good things about Blender, but currently I'm looking at picking up my skills in Hexagon.
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*sigh* A nice big scan would be cool
Well I plan to donate one image featuring the Frontier Transport to the 2013 Calendar. Perhaps a 3D remake of your drawing but with a different camera angle? A shift in perspective... But I have to see whether it thrums my artistic strings.
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That sounds COOL! Would love to see the results.
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