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Atlantic Class Heavy Cruiser: Tribute to the Role-Playing Game "Traveller"
Atlantic Class Heavy Cruiser is a low-technology fusion powered military starship. The design is based on the Atlantic Class Heavy Cruiser
created by Paul Jaquays in 1981 for the science fiction role playing
game "Traveller." His design is featured in the "Traveller" reference
booklet Supplement 9 Fighting Ships.
Factory Starship: Tribute to Space Artist Chris Foss
The design of Factory Starship is based on an illustration done by space artist Chris Foss as pre-production art for the science fiction/horror movie Alien. Foss's illustration can be seen in The Book of Alien,
published in 1979 by Heavy Metal Communications. Chris Foss is one of
my two favorite space artists / speculative spaceship design heroes.
Starship Epiphany: Tribute to Space Artist Robert McCall
The Starship Epiphany images are a tribute to the spaceship design in space artist Robert McCall's 1991 painting, Valley of a Billion Stars. McCall's painting can be seen on page 111 of The Art of Robert McCall: A Celebration of Our Future in Space,
published in 1992 by Bantam. While I perceive McCall's spaceship design
as a large exploratory vessel perhaps hundreds of meters long, I
believe it could also be interpreted as a sizable interstellar probe
directed by a sentient computer. Robert McCall is of my two favorite
space artists / speculative spaceship design heroes.
Battleship Zervaffenthan: Tribute to "Star Wars" Artist Joe Johnston
The Imperial I Class Star Destroyer from "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" is one of my all time favorite starship designs. The Zervaffenthan Class Battleship
is my tribute to this well known science-fantasy vessel. While not set
in the "Star Wars" universe, my ship is obviously a variant upon the Imperial I Class. This project was my first attempt at virtual "kit-bashing" using 3D meshes from fellow artists.
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