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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffworks: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [qb] I had a two hour phone chat with Andy Probert tonight, and while a lot of it was consumed with personal chitchat and a project he's going to help me on, I did remember to ask him some questions about the TMP ship. Here's some of what he told me:[/qb][/QUOTE]Kewelness! You DaMan! [QUOTE][qb]1. Most of the little squares around the perimeter of top of the saucer section were intended to be inspection hatches, not lifeboats.[/QUOTE][/qb] Which goes along w/what I recall reading or hearing somewhere: that the three outer most set of hatches are personnel hatches as labeled on the Kimball TMP prints and the inner is inspection hatches. I don't really like the idea of them serving that purpose, but if that was the original intent.... [QUOTE][qb]2. The lifeboat seen in the cargo deck was one of many that he intended to be along both sides of the engineering hull. He said he wanted there to be rows of hatch markings down either side, but that was nixed.[/QUOTE][/qb] Hmmm... I think I'm glad the secondary hull wasn't "littered" like that. Of course, I've also had the relatively spartan exterior growing on me for nearly a quarter of a century, so that's prolly why. [QUOTE][qb]3. The botantical deck windows origjnated because he and Richard Taylor were picturing the ship like a majestic ocean liner, and one key feature of such ships are large windows in the dining rooms. The windows ended up where they are because it was one of the few places on the not hull already spoken for. A miniature room was built, but scrapped when someone go the idea that if people saw a room through the windows, they'd want to go into it. Later the trees were put in.[/QUOTE][/qb] This is another that I'm glad was changed. I actually like the idea of the botanical gardens as opposed to the dining room. [QUOTE][qb]3. Some preproduction drawings of the ship featire red pinstriping (some of which ended up being copied onto the Reliant), and he says that a whole set of red pinstripe decals were produced for the model, and were intended to be the final touch on the model. They were to go around the edge of the saucer and outline the manuevering thrusters, and outline those bluish areas on the edges of the dorsal and pylons, around the grills on the front of the nacelles, and then along the tops of the nacelles, etc. He said a set of the decals were tested and looked great, then peeled off when the painters went to work doing the pearlescent paintjob. Afterwards, some of them convinced Trumbull not to use the pinstripes, so they were left off.[/QUOTE][/qb] While I think a few more of the warning strips used sparingly would have looked good, what it sounds like was proposed would have been rather garish. "Less is more" and all that. [QUOTE][qb]4. Andy said he hated the original bubble-like superstructure and the lower dome of the saucer that he carried over from the Joe Jennings plans for the Phase II ship, and jumped on the chance to redesign those then Trumbull wanted to add the external spotlights.[/QUOTE][/qb] Glad this change was made, then. While I like the Phase II arrangement for these areas, I think that the "current" arrangement looks more as if it were advancements from TOS. [QUOTE][qb]5. On the ST:TMP Blueprints, the reason the docking port on the secondary hull is lebeled "engineering" because it's the main docking port of the engineering hull, so it's not a mislabel.[/QUOTE][/qb] Kewel. [QUOTE][qb]6. In the same blueprint set, the klingon ship has "bolognium engine shields" as a joke about "bologne", because kids have a lot of energy from bologne sandwiches. Now we know the secret of Klingon strength![/QUOTE][/qb] I thought it was a combination of body order and them not cutting their hair.... :D [QUOTE][qb]So there you go. [/qb][/QUOTE]Thanks again. Appreciate your taking the time to ask those questions, as well as share your findings with us! [IMG]http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/images/smilies/thumbup.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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