never liked the enterprise but the curves on this are rather elegant, the nacelles also look clean and streamlined with that very nice grating below. i like that shape of the bridge when seen from the side, i can see how it looks 50s perhaps try some other ships( hint,hint...klingon bird of prey, romulan valdore,earthforce starfury/thunderbolt,naboo royal cruiser(yes this is a list of designs i like but i cannot think of many ships that would not look interesting remodelled like this.)) or your own designs in that same elegant and curved style.
perspective render looks better than any of the other views, sometimes it can be hard to design a ship to look good from all angles and you might just base the design around one view, it seems as though you have avoided this trap.
Heh heh, loving this, you've really nailed that 50's American automobile aesthetic, most original take on an Enterprise type ship I've seen in a long while. Great work.
I don't know if this is something you'll do, but as a 50's reff one of the big thing was the atomic symbol, you know the black and yellow circle with the wedges and the dot in the middle. Something like this.
So, if you really want to drive home (no pun intended, honestly.) the 50's meme maybe you could work something like these in somewhere. I kind of like the hexagonal one myself.
Technically, Star Trek "ripped off" (borrowed) a lot from Forbidden Planet. In Forbidden Planet, the ship decelerates at 17:01 and the crew steps into a dematerializer to do it, which looks a lot like a transporter. The overall colors of the interior are similar and the "contact" party that goes to Dr. Morpheus' home consists of the Commander, First Officer and Doctor, the same trio that would later be on nearly every away team on Star Trek. There are other things, but it's late and I don't remember them all.
As for Lost in Space, the Jupiter 2 doesn't look that much like the C-57D and the robot looks nothing like Robby the Robot, so to say they "ripped off" anything is a dubious statement at best.
The Jupiter 2 was a clear take on the C57D, right down to the astrogation dome with the model ship inside. They added a lot of blinky lights to make it appeal to kids. Also both ships had the light ring engine effect near the base.
So many people thought the b9 robot was robby that they had to put robby in an episode.
I suppose you could say the phasers in star trek were inspired by the blasters in FP as they both vaporized targets.
ANd I wasn't attacking anyone, just stating facts, hollywood lives on cannibalizing itself.
I think that the structural systems on starships like this are not just materials, some of them might be forcefields in conduits that have strength no material object could have.
ANd I wasn't attacking anyone, just stating facts, hollywood lives on cannibalizing itself.
Trust me, I certainly didn't see it as an attack, even though you are Judge Death. (love the avatar, BTW) I was just stating some fun facts about the origins of things in ST and my opinions on the stuff in LiS. But, I also never watched LiS on TV, so I only know what I could find images of on Google. Though, I did used to have a keychain LiS robot that talked when you pressed on his head. He still looks nothing like Robby to me, but I also have resources with which to verify that that weren't available in the '60s.
no they don't really...50's design is all about style and none symertric design and proportion..and it's the future...so materials are stong..i could make them 50% smaller and they still could work..:)
If I were you guys I would think of this as an art project, not a construction project. It's a premise not a theory.
Saquist, I'd like your post if the software permitted it. 1950s was all about future science solving pesky little things like materials strengths and power to breach the light speed barrier without warping space lol. Looking forward to seeing more of al3d's beautiful 50s Enterprise
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perspective render looks better than any of the other views, sometimes it can be hard to design a ship to look good from all angles and you might just base the design around one view, it seems as though you have avoided this trap.
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Another popular symbol from the 50's was this one:
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So, if you really want to drive home (no pun intended, honestly.) the 50's meme maybe you could work something like these in somewhere. I kind of like the hexagonal one myself.
Sweet. Thanks a lot. It looks really cool from that angle.
As for Lost in Space, the Jupiter 2 doesn't look that much like the C-57D and the robot looks nothing like Robby the Robot, so to say they "ripped off" anything is a dubious statement at best.
So many people thought the b9 robot was robby that they had to put robby in an episode.
I suppose you could say the phasers in star trek were inspired by the blasters in FP as they both vaporized targets.
ANd I wasn't attacking anyone, just stating facts, hollywood lives on cannibalizing itself.
ItAâs a possibility.
Trust me, I certainly didn't see it as an attack, even though you are Judge Death.
If I were you guys I would think of this as an art project, not a construction project. It's a premise not a theory.
You already know what I think of this one