Hello.
So, I posted a long time.
This model is a challenge of me three times, and aims to be definitive.
Several years, we have continued to struggle with it, shape, and for the balance is achieved in terms of thinking it's not the answer.
For modeling work has been posted near the end of it.
Unfortunately, I can not post very often.
Since I am not good at English, if you have strange expression, I'm sorry.
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Great airlock. I see you got the hand-holds and the power coupling, which are details a lot of people overlook when they do the Trek style airlock.
Please note especially the shape of the secondary hull.
Excellent work.
IAâm a fan of your work from a long time. There a lot of good work at your site. Keep doing the great work. :thumb:
That really is a good looking ship!
Great detail.
To add a bridge and V.I.P. lounge.
Your airlock is absolutely fabulous!!!!
The VIP Lounge is something of a point of contention is Trek fandom. You do get a quick gimpse of it when Spock's shuttle arrives in TMP. Later in the film when, Spock reveals his reasons for coming aboard the Enterprise to Kirk and McCoy, they are supposedly in the VIP Lounge, but the set in completely different from the one shown earlier. This is further complicated by the fact that in the original theatrical release of TMP, nothing but a warp speed starfield can be seen through the windows. When the movie was re-edited for "The Director's Edition" DVD, Foundation FX placed the starboard warp nacelle outside the window; apparently changing the room from the ship's VIP Lounge at the back of the saucer's "bridge bubble" to the upper level of the Recreation Deck (the eight square windows at the rear of the saucer's starboard side). The problem with that is that during Kirk's address to the crew on the Rec Deck earlier in the film, you can clearly see the upper level of the Rec Deck and no such room exists there.
So there has never been an easy answer as to exactly what the VIP Lounge looks like, or where Kirk, Spock, and McCoy had their conversation. Shane Johnson, author of "Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise," placed the room in a different part of a larger VIP Lounge within the "bridge bubble" and postulated that the windows were actually viewscreens that could be programmed to show any variety of images, including shots of the ship's exterior. That explanation never quite worked for me, but I like Ryutaro's solution in the pictures above. They clearly include the area where Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were speaking while showing how we might be able to see the exterior of the ship through the VIP Lounge windows. This kind of stuff falls very clearly into the "artistic license" category for 3D modelers, and I think Ryutaro's idea is as good as any.
From what I've read and seen the Kirk/Spock/McCoy scene was always conceptually intended to happen in that VIP lounge under the bridge but they simply didn't have the budget to do it. I've also read that the windows used in that scene were re-uses of the windows in the rec-room set.
I always liked Shane Johnson's approach though since it at least tried to explain away the inconsistencies.
VIP Lounge designers intended location is here.
The same is true for prop model.
Retractable Wall and Monitor screen camouflaged to window.
This is an idea that makes up the difference between the set and the model.
-Brian
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