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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] Dax: sorry, I'm now back in the Czech Republic, freshmen year is over [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG]. That means no scanner close by, unless I find one elsewhere. Ok, as for the V-ship: A few years back, Frank G and I asked David Stipes (DS9 VFX supervisor for IPS) about the matter. I asked whether there's more than one type of Dominion Battlecruiser, and he said no. Frank then showed him some images, and he replied that it's all a matter of CGI vs. model discrepancies. Given the fact that the physical model seen in the Magazine is not the V-ship, and the low likelyhood of the DS9 crew spending money on two physical models/prototypes, it seems reasonable to conclude that the V-ship is a CGI model built by VisionArt. Since DS9 was still primarily a model show in late S5, a physical model would've been definitely needed, and the modelmakers probably took the chance to refine the original shape a bit when they set to work on it. And as far as the V-ship CGI model was concerned, it would've been modified also for consistency - if not immediately in S5, then at the latest for "Sacrifice of Angels", which is when Foundation Imaging finally built the entire alien fleet in CGI (VisionArt doesn't use LightWave, which meant that every model had to be built anew, using old CGIs as templates). The funny thing is the size of the nacelles. Both the Fact Files and the Encyclopedia side views have the nacelles at 81% the overall length. The DS9TM version, on the other hand, has nacelles at merely 50-60% the overall length. The interesting thing is that the Fact Files *top view* matches the DS9TM top view (nacelles at 50-60% O.L.) - it looks like Doug Drexler drew the top view because there were none in the Encyclopedia, then drew another side view to match (realizing that he'd made some errors in the first try). This time, however, he forgot to scale up the nacelles for perspective (when you're looking at the ship from the top, the nacelles are further away than the main body, and will appear smaller), and left the nacelles at 50-60% O.L. even in the side view. Also note that the window spacing seen in Doug Drexler's side view matches a 762m O.L. I counted 7 deck spaces over 0.4cm in the DS9TM, compared it to an overall length of 13cm, and the result was something over 700m at 10' per deck. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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