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Re: Have You Seen the Cosmic Dancer?
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lugnet.space
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Sun, 9 May 2004 02:00:59 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Avery Christy wrote:
> I gotta agree, that is one sweet ship.
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> The more I looked at it, the more I like it.
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> First, it adds a whole new thinking in design. The bridge is midships and off to
> the side of the mainline of the "torso" of the ship.
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> The outside is smooth and colorically pleasing to the eye. Your eye just flows
> over the shape of the ship so easily, truly denoting the grace and smooth lines
> of a dancer.
Thanks, Avery! I don't know when i decided to put the bridge back towards the
engines, it just didn't 'fit' near the front. The ship began as a tiny pencil
drawing, I tried to stick to the simple shape that I'd sketched. Eric
Harshbarger's sculptures inspired me to build the complicated shape of the cargo
hold, even though he doesn't really use slopes.
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> Yes, I like greebles, and I try very hard to put at least five on my ships
> everyday. But, sometimes builders can get a little psychotic with the greebles
> and the ship ends up looking some a confused mess. Unless a person is going for
> that kind of harsh look, then it hurts my eyes sometimes. Anyway, this ship is
> obviously going for the look that does not require greebles, even though they
> are there if you look closely enough.
I had actually intended it to be a little more 'greebly' on the white sides and
the engines, just didn't work out that way in the end.
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> Another great design element is the forward cargo bay in two elongated pod
> sections. The arches breaking up the space in the cargo bays, and the inward
> swinging door are very nice and innovative. I am not saying that no one has done
> that before, I have no idea, but I think that I can say that you often do not
> see this. I also like the nice wide open spaces in the interior.
I originally had't even planned to model the interior of the cargo hold, figured
it would be too complicated. The swinging door idea came from an old post in
.castle, I didn't think of it.
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> One last final design touch that I would have to agree with, in the fact that it
> has been seen in some Dark Horse Comics (but was nicely and freshly integrated
> into this ship), are the engines. That good ol' corvette engine layout that has
> been twisted, bent, re-arranged, turned around and everything else so many times
> in so many ships but that still remains reminiscent of those first few seconds
> of film back in 1977 that instantly captured the imagination of the world. I
> think it is starting to become a metaphor... A Jungian sub-conscience universal,
> if you will.
No hiding that the Corellian Corvette was a huge influence. Jungian
sub-conscience universal? Some might say rip-off. I'll go with your term though.
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> Nice building, masked building stranger.
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> Avery
Thanks Avery!
Patrick
My stuff is: <http://www.brickshelf.org/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=carlosthedwarf>
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