quote:Originally posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: That four foot model was not lost... it was broken and all lubed up with grease.
You am sick, mikey. Sick.
Other "misplaced models" include the Ambassador and (for a few months) Reliant.
I just want to steal the DS9 model. I could do it....I have skills.
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In ref to the CGI DS9, Meni Tsirbas created one at FI for his own personal use. It turned up in an epsiode for the final episode of DS9.
And the Norway CGI model wasn't lost either. Someone at DigitalMuse ported it to LW a while back. It's still around on the old FI servers (which are owned by UFO these days.)
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I've yet to ever see any view of the Norway other than the rear promo shot from FC. I'd be intrested to see what was rendered (if it's the original source file).
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I've seen a 5 view of it. It's total crap and that's putting it mildly. The only model that was detailed at all was Akira one. The Norway, Saber and Steamrunner were all fairly low detail.
Meanwhile, a friend and I built this based on Rick's original construction drawings with some input from Rick and Ed Miarecki (who constructed the original minature with Greg Jein)
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Do you have said drawings? That looks pretty stock to me.
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Somewhere or other. I'd have to dig them up off the archive CD. I think there's 5 views of the Akira, Saber, Norway and Steamrunner too, along with a bunch of other crap.
We added a bunch of hull labels (i.e. the small details that maketh the model), details within the torpedo tubes (an extra torp installation on the hull ridge), some slight modifications to the lower sensor dome, warp core and animatter storage hatches and access, complete shuttlebays in both the saucer and secondary hulls, interconnect detail between the secondary and primary hulls and the separation points for the nacelles as well (should we feel like blowing them up sometime). I got Rick to go over it pretty carefully in order to pick out any glaring inconsistancies and he hasn't foudn any yet.
We've contemplated doing the Yamaguchi refit at some time or other as well as extra details like nacelle internals, battle damaged version for those Narendra III scenes.
As a side note, the model weighs in at 460000 polys currently, in LW and about 950000 in Max.
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Who cares if the Norway is low in detail - same with the Sabre and Steamrunner - we want to see official shots of the ventral surface - or basically the other parts of the ship we haven't seen.
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Oooh, please please post those 5-views ans concept drawings!! But perhaps a new thread would be the better place, as opposed to this one about the calendar.
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Umm, no. That's not the reason. The registry geometry is floating just above the surface (about 10 cm above it to be precise). I didn't move it out far enough when I scaled the ship up to it's correct dimensions. As a result, that bit looked screwy. It's been fixed, but I never got round to re-rendering the schematic with the new revisions.
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