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Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« on: February 26, 2012, 05:26:29 PM »
Hi folks,

A thread for your movie and TV themed spacecraft ideas and inspiration.

To begin with, has anyone ever tried to model the Messiah spacecraft from Deep Impact?



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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2012, 05:36:00 PM »
Another favourite of mine is the Leonov from 2010:

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2012, 06:16:01 PM »
I was always partial to the Vorlon fleet ships from Babylon 5, particularly this beastie:




I do so wish that Monogram had done more with the Babylon 5 lisence than they did.

I have a small cast metal version of that Vorlon ship stashed away somewhere, but that's as good as I could ever find for a kit of one.
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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 01:56:04 AM »
Well if you are going to mention Babylon 5, you just have to mention the Start Fury:



And let's not forget it's larger sibling, the Thunderbolt:

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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 02:00:21 AM »
And speaking of Star Furies:

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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2012, 03:07:48 AM »
I was always partial to the Brittania II from the Lensman anime-


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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2012, 07:21:34 AM »
Holy frack, where did you get that image of the "Messiah"? I've wanted to make one of those for ages, but never found anyhting other than screen caps.


Oh goody, another project...:(

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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2012, 07:46:43 AM »
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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2012, 07:56:35 AM »
I was always partial to the Brittania II from the Lensman anime-



I'd love to see someone go back to the original Lensman books that Lensman was very (!!!) loosely adapted from and do those ships.  I especially want to see the original Brittania as well as Kimball Kinnison's "Speedster".

Mind you, if the reported live action version of the first main book in the series, Galactic Patrol gets made, we may see some interesting interpretations.  Supposedly JMS is doing the writing on it - which is appropriate because he's a strong fan of the novels.
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2012, 08:53:39 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2012, 10:13:43 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: February 29, 2012, 03:31:09 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: February 29, 2012, 03:38:54 AM »
Holy frack, where did you get that image of the "Messiah"? I've wanted to make one of those for ages, but never found anyhting other than screen caps.


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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #13 on: February 29, 2012, 07:22:32 AM »
Oh my yes, I have always felt the (Orion?) Pan-Am shuttle needs some Draken wings >:D

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« Reply #14 on: February 29, 2012, 11:24:34 AM »
What would be interesting would be to do a launch diorama of the Space Clipper from 2001 according to the novel.  It's launched from the back of a fly-back booster that uses a launch track.  I'm thinking that a scaled-up P.1134 but with wing-tip verticals might do for the booster.

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« Reply #15 on: February 29, 2012, 01:15:53 PM »
There is a booster available - see here for more details.

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #16 on: February 29, 2012, 10:30:53 PM »
And speaking of Star Furies:




Nice! Just needs another set of wings!  :P
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« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2012, 08:02:14 AM »
Always a useful website for this genre: STARSHIP DIMENSIONS
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« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2012, 08:04:44 AM »
I must admit, that the Earth-force ships from Babylon 5 are still amongst my favourites:

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« Reply #19 on: March 04, 2012, 10:59:28 AM »
There is a booster available - see here for more details.



Interesting and quite nice looking but they don't match the description of the "fly-back" booster that Clarke put into his novel.  I'd be sorely tempted to do one clipper with these boosters and one more along the lines of Clarke's description.

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« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2013, 04:48:59 AM »
I found this short video to be very interesting in the details plus it has robot hover craft things chasing the hero:

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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2013, 11:02:44 AM »
To begin with, has anyone ever tried to model the Messiah spacecraft from Deep Impact?

I've always wondered what is preventing the first human space warships to look like much-enlarged space shuttle......

I'm first and fore-most a Wing Commander guy though.

Top: the Epee.  Paper-thin armours, so-so energy shield, and the ability to carry a torpedo despite being a light fighter.

Bottom: Excalibur, a heavy fighter.
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Re: Movie and TV Spacecraft Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2013, 11:14:36 PM »
I'm a fan of dropship / attack helo ideas...

GI Joe Dragonhawk:


C&C Orca and it various imaginings and incarnations:


Avatar Scorpion:


And one that's so well known, I need only show it's pilot and you'll know what it is:

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« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2013, 03:30:15 AM »
In a similar vein:



You could also make use of this real world concept to develop your own using just about any helicopter:

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« Reply #24 on: June 23, 2013, 03:43:40 AM »
Something else I did a while back that might tickle your fancy:

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