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Published: 2012-12-20 03:29:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 9336; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 246
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One of the earliest drawings I ever did that actually reached a professional level of quality, probably from 1990. These two ships were from the Traveller RPG, and it was printed a couple of times in Traveller's Digest (1990) and the MegaTraveller Journal (1993).Thanks to yafl for digging up the deets!
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Yes! Check out the rest of my gallery...
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I love those..............
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I remember this pic from back in the day. Β Good stuff.
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Thanks! It's one of my favourites.
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You are welcomeΒ
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Having the boarding tube on the Curiser's underside makes a lot of sense - given the huge wingspan and fins, how can the ship dock 'alongside' another vessel easily?
Another good touch is the turret on the scoutship - pointing away from the Cruiser. Obviously a requirement dictated by the inspection team... "You even so much as think about moving that turret, and you'll be in so much trouble your ancestors will feel it!"
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Glad folks are enjoying it! Yeah, the Patrol Cruiser was always one of my favourite ship designs.
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There is a reason we had multiple belly turrets.
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Classsic. Thanks for posting this. I had forgotten it.
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Very cool 
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Thank you for sharing this.
I am quite baffled that I have never seen that piece before. Especially because I've tried to get anything available regarding the patrol cruiser on the web or printed when I started modelling the ship [link] .
This is an instant favorite of mine. Great image.
And the second depicting the rarely seen passage tube, I would say.
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Nice to see a classic piece of Traveller art. The details are very nice
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YO! Mike!! Good to see ya here. Been a long time!!!
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It was published in DGP's Megatraveller Journal 4 (1993)
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I stand corrected! Thanks for digging that up. I'm pretty sure the drawing itself predates that by a few years though - There's a style to my shading (ie: inconsistent line direction and frequency) that was gone by 1992.
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After some more browsing I see they recycled it from Digest 20 (1990); that issue also shows you transitioning to using the MJ-in-a-circle glyph.
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Wow, you're really on top of this ; ) I'll change the date in the text here to 1990.
I seem to have quite a few drawings I did for issues of the Digest that I can no longer find.
The odd thing about the MJ-in-a-circle signature is that I thought I switched cleanly to the later MJ-Block, but I seem to have used both for a couple of years there...
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