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Published: 2011-05-24 07:00:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1533; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 188
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Leif Ericson aka Macarthur by Bill Redfern and Mapper Converted from Atra-Hasis' original Lightwave file.Textures altered to reflect a Starfleet Transport Command U.S.S. OKTOBER SKY.
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This was just as much an excercise in procedural texturing backgrounds as a starship image.
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I didn't build it, take that up with the mesh builder...
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The last time I saw these two girls together was in my room, as I played with my old AMT models. I'm getting old! Thanks for the memories!
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Ah yes, the old glow in the dark "Planetary UFO" I remember it well.
Me too, on both counts!
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Nice job. I bought and built the Leif Ericson way back when. Live the way the shiop is still remembered.
Offhand, I'd say the LE is about half the length of the Enterprise.
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Little bit smaller than that. But perspective in this image...
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I agree. The key is the two rows of windows on the LE and the Enterpise saucer hulls.
One thing that always drove me nuts about all the TREKs was their lackadaisical approach to perspective and relative sizes. A Bird of Prey is TINY compared to Enterprise-A and up. A Warbird is twice the size of the D. And there's no way the D can dock INSIDE the DS9 ring.
By the way, I really appreciate your use of color to link the two ships toegther.
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Thanx. This was some of my first attempts to completely utilize radiosity.
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I remember that when it glowed in the dark! LOL
Great render!
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You are welcome, indeed.
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I am familiar with that ship, the Leif Ericson, by other modelng sites and I think as a 'glow in the dark' model kit....
Where did it originate?
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I think it started out in the '60's as the Leif Ericson model, then became the U.F.O. and "stolen for much other stuff.
From the model website...Following the success of its first batch of Star Trek model kits, AMT decided to launch its own series of original sci-fi models under the moniker "Strategic Space Command." The galactic cruiser "Leif Ericson" was the first in what AMT hoped would be a whole catalog of proprietary sci-fi kits, and even hired Star Trek Art Director Matt Jeffries to do this premiere design. (Jeffries had a particular affinity for submarine-like conning towers, a feature he incorporated into both the Leif Ericson and the DY-100 sleeper ship "Botany Bay" from the ST:TOS first season episode "Space Seed.")
Unlike Star Trek's ships, the Leif Ericson was not equipped with transporters, instead using an insect-like landing craft to shuttle personnel to and from planetary surfaces. This shuttle was stowed in a large hanger bay situated amidships.
The original Leif Ericson kit came equipped with both clear and chrome parts as well as an internal lighting kit. Unfortunately, the kit was a commercial failure for AMT, one that scuttled the company's plans for any more models in its "Strategic Space Command" line.
The kit was re-released in 1976 as the glow-in-the-dark "Interplanetary UFO Mystery Ship." That kit lacked the clear and chrome pieces from the original Leif Ericson, including the landing craft's chrome landing legs!
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I had the glow in the dark version when I was a kid. The Lief Erickson was the model that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle used as the basis for the NSS MacArthur battleship from the book The Mote in God's Eye. (Yes, I am a nerd. Why do you ask?)
Nice image, BTW.
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Not telling me anything I don't already know... 
And Thanx!
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woa...
Cool history.
Thanks!
(Now to hunt down a actual image of a model kit.... )
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Next will be the U.S.S. Southern Cross.
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Why publish every last test image? Its ok doing so if its a remarkable technique you've got right but to do as you are doing and posting every last try will only lose you followers. Been there, seen it got the tee shirt. Just some friendly advice.
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I hadn't realized I was doing that. I have an idea try it out and think "that's great!" So I post it. Then I have another idea try a few renders and then hit on another...etc. I have nowhere near posted every failed attempt, almost there, or not quite right image I have ever rendered. But I WILL be mindful. Thanx for the tip!
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