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evil_genius_180 wrote: »

Really nice work. I've never heard of this series, so I can't comment on accuracy, but those are some attractive looking and well modeled ships. Also, I really like the environment for that final render, that's really cool.

thanks, Chris, Starblazers was only sold in the UK and Ireland I think but had some great SciFi cover art. the environment was created by GrahamTG, who shares a lot of his scene art.


This cover is by a super artist Ian Kennedy

It's a long time since I last posted, I hope you like this design, inspired by old comics called Starblazer (not the cartoon)

Starhawk originated in The Crunch comic published by Scotland’s D.C. Thompson in the city of Dundee before transferring to another comic title better to known to my generation as Hotspur, and later appeared in Starblazer, Victor, Spike and (as ‘Young Starhawk’) Buddy, as well as three Hotspur annuals.
Heroes:
Sol Rynn, alias Starhawk, was a roving lawman who brought justice to the scattered worlds of the slowly disintegrating Terran Empire in the 26th century AD, along with his trusty robot sidekick, Droid. They rode in a ship called the Space Rider ^ and answered SOS calls sent out using special SOS cards of Rynn’s own design, how those cards get around I don’t know if it was ever explained.

also featured are some fighter designs I have called *W.A.S.P. Fighter and Dundee Battle Ships

*World Alliance Star Patrol. Fighter?

*Western Alliance Star Patrol. Fighter?

*Wide Area Strategic Protector. Fighter?

great to see you have returned to the world of CGI Chris

JasonAdank wrote: »

Nice work Gerard, Im particularly fond of the Connie and Miranda as my favs. Hope to see more beauty images of those, and also the Locknar.

The Oberth doesnt seem TOS enough for me though, seems like its still the TMP era. The storage container on the secondary hull of the Locknar seems a little simplistic, I like what you did with that on the Drexler class better.

Itd be great to see some posed shots of these, perhaps with your orbit plate or something

Thanks, I hope to get some more renders done in the near future with the other designs


The Oberth was a late addition, I was going to use my original model and tweak it but I started fresh and started to burn out modelling Trek designs, Drexler is my favourite.

only render I have with the Maranda Class are these test renders

Great design, I loved it. I often thought about building it myself but I think the control area would be too much of a challenge. bravo


I watched it on TV in the 70s, around the time of Star Wars I don't remember ever seeing it repeated again. but it had Nick Tate aka Captain Carter from Space1999, Brian Blessed Flash Gordon and Space1999 season 2 guest star.

it was aimed at kids and tried to reflect the reality of Space travel at near lightspeed, Dobler shift and time dilation.

it was fun