middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
I been practising...
Type S Scout/Courier Art
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Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
I guess that little dome on top is not R2. 
Its a good rendering. Maybe sometime you could show us what the inside looks like.
Its a good rendering. Maybe sometime you could show us what the inside looks like.
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
That would be a TURRET - blasting your smartass! 
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
How would it do against the Millenium Falcon? Has anyone ever done a Traveller Version of the Millenium Falcon, by replacing the hyperdrive with an appropriate Jump Drive? The technical specs say the Millenium Falcon has a cargo capacity of 100 tons I'd say the Falcon was at least twice the size of a type S Scout/Courier, probably the closest equivalent in the Traveller Universe would be the Far Trader. (On second thought maybe its closer to a pirate's corvette) I believe the Falcon has two turrets, one on top and the other on the bottom, they fire quadruple turreted pulse lasers.
Tom Kalbfus said:
How would it do against the Millenium Falcon? Has anyone ever done a Traveller Version of the Millenium Falcon, by replacing the hyperdrive with an appropriate Jump Drive? The technical specs say the Millenium Falcon has a cargo capacity of 100 tons I'd say the Falcon was at least twice the size of a type S Scout/Courier, probably the closest equivalent in the Traveller Universe would be the Far Trader. (On second thought maybe its closer to a pirate's corvette) I believe the Falcon has two turrets, one on top and the other on the bottom, they fire quadruple turreted pulse lasers.
I would love to throw my money at someone who would illustrate the standard Traveller ships in that style.
middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
vargr1 said:
Not impossible for me to do.
vargr1 said:
We've looked at it
The issues are:
a) Time and cost - you can have one ship done like this, perhaps two or three. But when you have 20-odd in the Core book and are adding more in supplements, it quickly gets prohibitive. After all, you want the Core book this decade, right?
b) Utility. We have run into this time and again when looking at new ways to present ships. We want them to look pretty but, at the same time, they need to be actually usable in a game. This greatly restricts what you can do.
c) Space. At the moment, we are running to two pages per ship, and that really has to be the maximum, After all, you want things other than ships in your books.
We are always looking for ways to improve (see the Core rulebook in the next update for a big revision in how ships are presented), but practicality is ever the enemy of art...
Matt,
The micro-books that have been published for $5.99, and Ian's books as well as Gypsy Knight and others show that there is a market for this. I'm all for cool and jazzy artwork (it sells!), but I think you are right in finding a balance for it.
Then again, there's always 1/4 and 1/2 page detailed illustrations too...
The micro-books that have been published for $5.99, and Ian's books as well as Gypsy Knight and others show that there is a market for this. I'm all for cool and jazzy artwork (it sells!), but I think you are right in finding a balance for it.
Then again, there's always 1/4 and 1/2 page detailed illustrations too...
middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
msprange said:vargr1 said:
We've looked at it
The issues are:
a) Time and cost - you can have one ship done like this, perhaps two or three. But when you have 20-odd in the Core book and are adding more in supplements, it quickly gets prohibitive. After all, you want the Core book this decade, right?
b) Utility. We have run into this time and again when looking at new ways to present ships. We want them to look pretty but, at the same time, they need to be actually usable in a game. This greatly restricts what you can do.
c) Space. At the moment, we are running to two pages per ship, and that really has to be the maximum, After all, you want things other than ships in your books.
We are always looking for ways to improve (see the Core rulebook in the next update for a big revision in how ships are presented), but practicality is ever the enemy of art...
also that sort of very precise blue print work is time consuming, and mindbogglingly tedious...anyone who has the patience and attention to detail to do that work has my admiration....
middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
I pull my line work from the model
middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
What would you say if someone depicts a Scout Courier with fiery rocket exhaust coming out the back? Would you say that person doesn't know much about Traveller?
middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
Tom Kalbfus said:
An odd question..
Yes and no, if it had a reaction drive yes, if it had the standard grav drive, no.
Strictly speaking any sort of glow or 'nozzles' would not be there.
Me I like a sort of nozzle like projection for the drives and a faint glow.. I know plenty would argue no that would not happen, I don't care I like it. I am sure I could make something up that would explain it.
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Tom Kalbfus said:
I'd say there have been several versions of Traveller and no one final definitive explanation/speculation as to how an M drive may work. So you can draw a fictional spacecraft any which way you like.
It still comes down to whether the artwork fires your imagination, which Mr McNulty's does!
