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03-09-2008, 06:02 AM
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| SFM Nugget  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Behind you.
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| Nova-class Battlestar Orthos v2 - 11 years later - Finished! Hello, all: It's been 11 years since I did the first set of schematics for the TOS Galactica (which I dubbed the "Nova" class for lack of a better named) by hand using a pencil, ruler, and my well-scrubbed VCR recordings of the original series. Sadly, the web was in its infancy at the time and good source material was really impossible to come by. Nobody knew where the original studio model was and all I had to go on were some grainy pics and my Revellogram model, which as most people know was riddled with errors. The schematics that were born from that model contained the same glaring errors. Lately, I've had a wild hair to revisit the schematics (especially after having seen my old orthos appear in photos taken at the CIC set of the new show) and create the most accurate full 6-view set of orthos I could build using Adobe Illustrator CS1. After the recent windfall of information on the studio model, I have been able to finish the Big "G". Well, after 9 months of R&D and over 200 hours of drawing, I'm finished with the schematics. Clickable thumbnail follows. I've had to take some liberties with the old girl, particularly with regard to symmetry on an asymmetrical design, the fore-mentioned perspective distortion and other bits. The one thing I really had to fudge was the ventral "cap" where the stand would be mounted on the bottom. Nobody seems to have good reference materials of that particular object, as it's probably been long since lost. Many thanks to all those who helped make this project possible. I will post source Adobe Illustrator and Acrobat PDF files after a few days and I get some comments on the design. Please do not use these schematics for profit. I'm giving them freely for the whole community to use.  |
| I may appear unoccupied to you, but at the molecular level, I'm really quite busy. Welcome to Gebirgswick Help support Gebirgswick Industry, Transportation and Security Last edited by 137th Gebirg; 03-10-2008 at 04:35 PM. | |
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03-09-2008, 07:09 AM
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| Junior Member   Realname: Bill Carey Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rochester Hills, MI USA
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03-09-2008, 12:19 PM
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| SFM Oracle  Realname: Alexander Weber Join Date: May 2006 Location: Schatthausen, Germany Age: 22
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03-10-2008, 04:36 PM
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| SFM Nugget Join Date: May 2006 Location: Behind you.
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| Thanks to all for the kind words. I've added a tiny version of the schematics as an attachment so that the thread would have a thumbnail associated with it. |
| I may appear unoccupied to you, but at the molecular level, I'm really quite busy. Welcome to Gebirgswick Help support Gebirgswick Industry, Transportation and Security | |
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03-10-2008, 05:04 PM
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| Space Cadet  Realname: B.J. Join Date: May 2006 Location: Huntsville, AL Age: 34
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| Nice work! That's an insane amount of greebles to try to document! |
| B.J. Olejnik 2D WIP: BSG Vipers | |
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03-11-2008, 01:07 PM
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| SFM Nugget Join Date: May 2006 Location: Behind you.
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| Thanks again. Did a small update last night. Found a few small errors that needed correction. |
| I may appear unoccupied to you, but at the molecular level, I'm really quite busy. Welcome to Gebirgswick Help support Gebirgswick Industry, Transportation and Security | |
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03-18-2008, 03:03 PM
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| SFM Nugget Join Date: May 2006 Location: Behind you.
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| Ok, all, the final update is complete, but I couldn't do the full fix. Some have noticed on other forums that the overall body scale is a bit off - which it is, slightly. Unfortunately, the vectors are too intertwined for me to re-scale the body and neck properly. It would basically take a complete re-work of the thing to make it happen and I just don't have it in me to do it. I've made some other small changes that were mentioned elsewhere that are more do-able. At present, I still feel these are some of the best orthos around of the old girl and maybe I'll revisit them with a fresh viewpoint later on down the line. Link to the PNG: http://www.shipschematics.net/bsg/battlestar_nova.png I will post the source Adobe Illustrator file and a PDF in a bit. |
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03-18-2008, 03:14 PM
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| Still Alive   Realname: Andy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Syracuse NY USA Age: 24
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