137th Gebirg
9th Mar 2008, 07:02
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.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7885/battlestarnovapreview08vw6.th.png (http://www.shipschematics.net/bsg/battlestar_nova.png)
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.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7885/battlestarnovapreview08vw6.th.png (http://www.shipschematics.net/bsg/battlestar_nova.png)