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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2013, 04:19:36 AM »
I must admit, that the Earth-force ships from Babylon 5 are still amongst my favourites:





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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2013, 11:10:20 AM »
Something else I did a while back that might tickle your fancy:




Replacing the prop-rotors with large ducted fans might work, though I'm not sure what you'd gain beyond being able to execute a straight-ahead landing without bending or breaking stuff.  I'm not at all certain, though, how practical that fan unit in the tail is.  Besides you have it exhausting right down on to the troops storming down the ramp; not generally a good idea.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2013, 03:50:27 PM »
from the new movie "Despicable me 2".

something that i could concider overkill, but still an interesting subject to build.
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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2013, 08:15:21 AM »


Replacing the prop-rotors with large ducted fans might work, though I'm not sure what you'd gain beyond being able to execute a straight-ahead landing without bending or breaking stuff.  I'm not at all certain, though, how practical that fan unit in the tail is.  Besides you have it exhausting right down on to the troops storming down the ramp; not generally a good idea.

Ducted fans? Why my good man, they are quite clearly impulse nacelles, somewhere in the range of 750 millicochranes I'd reckon and likely capable of low orbit flight. The rear unit is most certainly a quantum tritanium depolarization matrix generator.  Ducted fans indeed.


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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #29 on: July 02, 2015, 11:54:21 AM »
Representation of the actual sizes of different scale practical models built for various films. Did you know the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey was 54 feet long?



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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #30 on: July 09, 2015, 04:32:46 PM »
Always wanted to try a larger version of my little battered corgi model.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2015, 02:19:01 AM »
Corgi made a model of the Red Dwarf?  Sweet!  Still one of the best science fiction comedy shows ever!  :)
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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2015, 02:51:15 AM »
Still one of the best science fiction comedy shows ever!  :)

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #33 on: July 11, 2015, 12:22:05 PM »
From a book and computer game, but always wanted to try this one too.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #34 on: July 11, 2015, 04:22:50 PM »
Wow, what is it?

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« Reply #35 on: July 11, 2015, 05:18:13 PM »
Wow, what is it?
Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #36 on: July 11, 2015, 07:31:59 PM »
Oh yes and the dastardly things they did to that flock of birds

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2015, 11:36:43 PM »
Found this website, Martin Bower's Models World, while researching Space 1999 Eagles.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #38 on: July 19, 2015, 08:34:40 AM »
Not sure where to post this. 1 to 1 modelling.

Every year Adam Savage from Mythbusters goes to Comic-con and walks the floor incognito (almost). This year he succeed and brings along a well known Canadian:

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2015, 01:18:50 AM »
Found this website, Martin Bower's Models World, while researching Space 1999 Eagles.




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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #40 on: December 04, 2015, 07:32:29 AM »
You have to admire Robert McCall's work:

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #41 on: December 04, 2015, 09:11:22 PM »
That is glorious!

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #42 on: December 05, 2015, 03:42:07 AM »
That looks to be a relatively easy scratch build
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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #43 on: December 05, 2015, 07:39:29 PM »
Always loved the look of the Flight of the Navigator ship in high speed mode, thought it would be a good look for a very large intersteller craft, i.e. super star destroyer size and proportions.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #44 on: December 05, 2015, 08:28:30 PM »
Always loved the look of the Flight of the Navigator ship in high speed mode, thought it would be a good look for a very large intersteller craft, i.e. super star destroyer size and proportions.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #45 on: December 06, 2015, 01:07:12 AM »
Digging wa-a-a-y-y-y back into my childhood, how about both the "good guy" and 'bad guy" ships from the (very!) old cartoon series Space Angel.  Showing my age, am I, here.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #46 on: December 06, 2015, 05:37:31 AM »
Always loved the look of the Flight of the Navigator ship in high speed mode, thought it would be a good look for a very large intersteller craft, i.e. super star destroyer size and proportions.

At least one person did a model of it:

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #47 on: December 06, 2015, 03:46:01 PM »
:)

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #48 on: December 31, 2015, 04:52:08 AM »
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