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Big Book of Starship Porn!

Otherwise known as the Terran Trade Authority series.

Some fella's put up a website about it and done 3D modelling. Find it here:
http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/tta/index.html

I love the classic lines of some of these ships, especially the Star Raker. And the atmospheric styling was just... well, you had to be there in your formative years.

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Hmm... so basically there's no point to these books other that the fact that they talk about spaceships. Brilliant!
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Loved these books. Very neeto!
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Lee
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I have thumbs!

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Great art. Possibly fodder for the art forum?

...I have thumbs, too. Clicking now.

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quote:
Originally posted by Timo:
Great art. Possibly fodder for the art forum?

Quite a few games developers cite the TTA series as being the source of a great deal of inspiration when developing the look of ships for computer games.
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I don't know how many times I checked that book out of the library.

Sweet!

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I don't tknow what it is about the design ethic. The TTA ships are often bulky, ungainly, and devoid of any practical sense. But dammit, they look COOL.

Mark

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