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Published: 2014-11-21 00:29:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 13132; Favourites: 246; Downloads: 359
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Two manned Interstellar spacecraft undergo check-outs from crews in work pods. They've settled into orbit around the small asteroidal moon of their target world, which seems capable of sustaining human life.Rendered and modeled in Lightwave 10. Nebula done in Photoshop. Thanks for taking a look!
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While inhabiting planets is fine and all it's a little like the first amphibian crawling out of the sea and crossing the continent to get back into the sea. I guess perspectives would differ.
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Love the lighting on this one! Lightwave is awesome program. It was the first 3d program I learned. And if I had the $$$, I'd go back. Or switch to Maya for that matter. But, Blender is working out for me, thus far. Great work on this one!
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Looks like Project Dadaelus o.o Β So awesome. <3
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Just adding to what others have said previously--a very nice rendition of a Daedalus interstellar spacecraft.Β
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Β Β I remember seeing this ships when I was about 7 or 8 years old.Β The program was COSMOS, if I am not mistaken.Β Thought no one would remember them.Β Needless to say to make them in art form.Β And boy are they beautiful.Β Thank you for making me remember.
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"Oh! I just forgot that our starships are grail shaped. Oh bad, bad, naughty evil Zoot!"
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I must not build this in KSP... I must not build this in KSP.... I must not build this in KSP.....
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BTW, do you believe in warp? Doctor White at NASA do. Someone there thinks that he could obtain some result some day. If warp came, all these ships would be obsolete in its concept. I'm not a Star Trek fan, just a fan of anything that can take us faster and deeper in space. On the contrary, in fact, I'm a fan of those ships, better than those damned ringed ships (Mr. Rademarek's Enterprise, you know).
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Breathtaking. They look so powerful...Who needs Starfleet?
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Me too! Or something better. The engineers are now playing around with an idea for antimatter initiated fusion propulsion these days!
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I'm quite sure it can work.... But antimatter is rather expensive at present time
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Once in a Star Trek novel, Mr. Scott referred to packets of antimatter. I had the distinct impression that what they did was to simply convert cold matter into anti-matter, for mixing in the warp core.
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I don't remember to have seen the way they produce antimatter in Star Trek, but perhaps you are right
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Very nice model and scene. I still have to think of that old Carl Sagan book where i saw the sketch of this ship first.
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Yep. I'm old enough to have a first edition of that book! Rick Sternbach, who went on to production designing for Star Trek: The Next Generation did the starship illustrations for Cosmos!
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Love your version of this classic ! Im digging the shield cap better than the deploy-able dust shield of the original.
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Thanks! Yeah, I was just trying to rethink the erosion shield a bit. There's nother part of it, that gets released to travel ahead of the ship as it turns around to start decelerating, too.
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Ship, background, everything is purrrrrfect mate
100 out of 10
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Wow! Thank you LordTigeron! Everything just seemed to fall into place with this image!
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Beautiful, majestic stuff man.
The background is a stunner.
Top shelf.
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Many thanks, sir! The background is actually my first attempts with Digital Heavens Cosmic Pack 3. Some stunning results are very easy to achieve with that set of actions!
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And stunning they are my friend.
I always look forward to what you're
cookin' up.
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Wonderful to see the Daedalus design realized like this.
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It was fun to do the geodesic-like thrust structure!
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Another concept I remember from all those Cold War era NASA sponsored books in the 70s and 80s.
A great render.
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We were clearly reading the same books! The basic design is actually from the British Interplanetary Society'sΒ Project Daedalus The manned version is somewhat bigger, and has a number of speculative design Β changes. I'm glad you like it!
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The whole Star Wars craze re-ignited the RW "space race" in the imaginations of many of us Americans. A lot of those collections of concept drawings were re-issued as Real Science reminded us of the kinds of space opera dreams we had enjoyed just prior to Star Wars taking off.
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Many thanks, Nyrath! Its one of those few images that turned out better than I imagined it.
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I love your interpretation of a manned Daedalus nuclear pulse star ship, exquisite modeling my friend. Β
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Thanks, man! This model seems to be an eternal work in progress. Oe day t will hold up to close-ups, I hope!
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