It isn't much yet, and nothing is really final. My intent is to rough out the design in Illustrator and then model the ship in 3D Studio Max.
Any thoughts?
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
It's got some not-so-subtle reminders of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers (original), and, um, Duck Dodgers. Actually, it reminds me more of the Duck Dodgers series more than anything else because of where it looks like you put the control center.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Yeah, the control center placement is quite ripped from Duck Dodgers. That and whatever I turned up in a Google Image search for "50's Scifi" are probably where most of this comes from.
The Google search was made before I actually started working on this, but I can't remember why I made it, in any case, the images were in my head when I started some basic sketching at work.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Added some stuff, changed some stuff, but not much really.
Can anyone suggest some stuff to look at to get some ideas?
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
You could spend a looooong time looking around all his pages.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Ohhh this takes me back to some books I liked in primary school. They weren't novels - they were A4 sized books with titles like "Space" or "Space Flight" or "Future Travel" things like that. They had 'info' i.e. about the planets etc. or spaceships in the travel book they had sections on things like Maglev trains and hydrofoils. They also had sections with 'activities' i.e. you can create craters by getting a tray of flour and dropping other bits of flour on it. Another was to demonstrate how a space station's gravity might work etc. They were 'Osbourne books'. They had FANTASTIC pictures in them too.
Can ANYONE remember them? I've always been tempted to go back to my primary school's library to find them (I had some myself) but I'm sure they've gotten rid of them now - and I'm not sure they'd like me to go hanging out at their library!!
Andrew
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Ah retro future goodness. I wasn't born in the time when spacecraft were portrayed like this but I do enjoy this type of design.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Can anyone help me in my quest to rediscover these books!?!
BTW - I remember looking at them around the late eighties but I reckon they were published in the early eighties.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Thanks for the links, haven't gone through everything, but I intend to. It seems to be taking things more seriously than I intend to though
Did some more: Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
And a bit more Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Trying something different for the engines, but I need to make some new wings now. I'm not sure if its really coming across the way I want in Illustrator either, but this is just a guide for later. Posted by Makotokat (Member # 1041) on :
Looking pretty good there!
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Yeah tapering that main shape really made a difference. I like the wing being at an angle too. Makes it more retro. Now the "bridge" or cockpit or whatever looks a bit boxy. But I think the design is starting to gel now. More, more, more!
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
More changes. Alternatively, I could switch the wings and the rocket exhaust, or have the wings on the centreline and have four of the exhaust things. Or something totally different. Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Now we're talkin'. I suspect that cool as it looks having those upswept main wings (and it does look very cool), the design may look off balance in 3D. Love the cockpit thingy now.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Does anyone remember the 1996 TV Series of Flash Gordon? I thought that was a pretty neat show. I especially liked that spaceship he flew around in. I've been looking for some pics of it but no luck. Anyone got any?
Posted by HerbShrump (Member # 1230) on :
1996 TV Series? Uh.. no. I don't recall that.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
I remember it, but I can't really remember what anything looked like.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
It only ran for 1 or 2 seasons, the ship I ws thinking of is kinda like a long rectangular-ish thing with 4 wings at the back. I always thought it looked wicked cool.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
So long as they don't do a modern remake of Flesh Gordon. Fuck that was the worst porno movie ever...
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
See some of the Japanese stuff, lad.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
But japanese chicks are hot! The actors in Flesh Gordon, well, they're not. Even hentai, as sick and twisted as it may be, is still better than Flesh Gordon.
Posted by Makotokat (Member # 1041) on :
