Modeled in Blender. Rendered in Cycles.
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Here's a project I've been dabling with for a few months now. Since I'm wrapping up the
Federation I figured I'd give you a sneak peak. This is based on Matt Jeffries' original shuttle design before he moved in a more cost-conscious direction and gave us the Galileo that we all know and adore.
I've attempted this ship before and was never really happy with it. When I went back to it this time I realized how much more like conventional aircraft some (not all) of his original sketches were.
Actually this is kind of cheating since I've decided to scap the current mesh and try and get something a lot cleaner.
Here's the progress so far:
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I redid the base mesh with bsurfaces. And boy howdy am I loving B-mesh! Between that and vertex slide I got this far MUCH faster than I would have the last time. It makes adding control loops and moving stuff around SO much easier. So far it's still all quads.
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Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
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I decided to go with the skinnier cross section after I looked at the sketches I posted, put that together with Jeffries' passion for aviation, and considered the fact that he tried to drag the design back to that for Phase II. I've done some tests with the "wings" and I think it looks much better than the "wide-body" that you usually see.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
Did the cutout on the top and added the forward window. I hate adding windows. I had tried adding three ports like on the Galileo but it was a little boring. Plus Jeffries drew the cyclops version in several of his drawings.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
Red Spar, I really liked your take on aridas sofia's blueprint of the shuttle. I've been talking with him about this version. He's still more of a fan of the "wide body" but there you are.
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Added some detailing to the main body and started roughing out the engine supports. Not perfect yet but I think Jeffries' crazy wing design might work. This is the first time I've ever thought that.
Happy Memorial Day to everyone in the U.S.A.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
I'll definitely be building a Cage-era hangar for this to go in. We'll see how it fits.
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Little more work on the struts, getting closer to MJ's profile. Added vent widgets and obviously decided to see if I could open the doors. Oh, and I added that stripey trim thing.
Those that are digging the airplane-y look, thank you.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
I've never seen this shuttle before. And I have to say I'm quite smitten by it. A wonderful design! It seems so much more in keeping with the aesthetic of the TOS Enterprise. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this all plays out. Thanks for posting this Tallguy!
nice work, have i said how much i love it yet? :P
Here is a shot I made to scale with my wide version parked in the Enterprise hangar bay HERE
As you can see it has room for one shuttle and maybe a bag of luggage with it...
I never liked the rear landing strut that Jefferies designed. I came up with my own folding design, but no one else liked it but me..
That's a good idea, to be fair. Used for surface-to-starbase work and such, like the bus to work, only the suburbs are a planet and the job's in orbit of the next planet over.
Love the progress on this. Looking very good!
I started over from scratch. (OK, the nacelles are existing, but I'll re-do those.)
I've tackled this before over the years, but this (I feel) is the closest I've gotten to MJ's "feel".
Feedback is always welcome.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
Don't have anything to post at the moment. The holidays have me by the verts.
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle