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well I survived a year in hell and have been slowly getting back to work got something from the museum for you allvery nice!!
Oh crap. I mean, this is great, but oh crap.
Right, so literally 15 years ago I registered at BC-Central.COM as I scoured the interwebs for models to use for my Starship Volumetrics project at https://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWvolumetrics.html . . . but then at some point the site disappeared. I just happened to find something that made me look again and as I was verifying the address before hitting the Wayback Machine I saw this .net and there's DJCurtis and Wiley and oh crap my login still works.
"So . . . what had happened was" . . .
Long story short, sometime circa 2021/2022 I got back into the act of working with starship models for study in old Google SketchUp . . . volumetric analysis, side-by-side comparisons of deck height and other minutiae, size comparisons against a "Yardstick" of models of various real and reasonably accessible things, special effects shot reconstructions . . . total geekery, most of it posted to Twitter.
(Yardstick explanation: http://weblog.st-v-sw.net/2021/11/scaling-yardsticks.html )
I had a little time at that point and had come across the Quincentennial mod and the Remastered mod and one of the mod download sites and I've converted dozens of the models. All the readme files and everything else I could find invariably pointed to dead links and so on, but I've tried to dutifully give credit when known, and have typically done a good bit of digging to try to find the original creator of so many models, er, 'relabeled' by others. Otherwise, however, I've just been winging it.
Off the top of my head at the moment, the only model I've really messed with is the DJCurtis Galaxy, fiddling with darkening the textures to recreate an oddly painted Galaxy model seen in DS9 that I call the Galaxy-C.
https://x.com/STvSW/status/1550570022245998595
(there's a whole story with that one . . . see also:
https://forums.scifi-meshes.com/discussion/comment/2032833#Comment_2032833 )
I've also used Wiley's Sovereign quite a bit, e.g.:
https://x.com/STvSW/status/1750206508132897127
https://x.com/STvSW/status/1620653343805939712 (credit in tweet after this one)
I truly thought I had no contact method available but tried to ensure credit where due. Anyway, it's a bit late now, but just for the sake of due diligence I wanted to request permission for these mostly-academic fair uses.
(Also, lest I forget, thanks so much to all the hard-working people who've made Trek models I've used, both mentioned like the two gents above or otherwise. I'm a somewhat odd use case in that I don't try to blow them up or otherwise play with them in a game, but let me assure you that your work is extremely appreciated.)
Thanks!
Oh crap. I mean, this is great, but oh crap.
Right, so literally 15 years ago I registered at BC-Central.COM as I scoured the interwebs for models to use for my Starship Volumetrics project at https://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWvolumetrics.html . . . but then at some point the site disappeared. I just happened to find something that made me look again and as I was verifying the address before hitting the Wayback Machine I saw this .net and there's DJCurtis and Wiley and oh crap my login still works.
"So . . . what had happened was" . . .
Long story short, sometime circa 2021/2022 I got back into the act of working with starship models for study in old Google SketchUp . . . volumetric analysis, side-by-side comparisons of deck height and other minutiae, size comparisons against a "Yardstick" of models of various real and reasonably accessible things, special effects shot reconstructions . . . total geekery, most of it posted to Twitter.
(Yardstick explanation: http://weblog.st-v-sw.net/2021/11/scaling-yardsticks.html )
I had a little time at that point and had come across the Quincentennial mod and the Remastered mod and one of the mod download sites and I've converted dozens of the models. All the readme files and everything else I could find invariably pointed to dead links and so on, but I've tried to dutifully give credit when known, and have typically done a good bit of digging to try to find the original creator of so many models, er, 'relabeled' by others. Otherwise, however, I've just been winging it.
Off the top of my head at the moment, the only model I've really messed with is the DJCurtis Galaxy, fiddling with darkening the textures to recreate an oddly painted Galaxy model seen in DS9 that I call the Galaxy-C.
https://x.com/STvSW/status/1550570022245998595
(there's a whole story with that one . . . see also:
https://forums.scifi-meshes.com/discussion/comment/2032833#Comment_2032833 )
I've also used Wiley's Sovereign quite a bit, e.g.:
https://x.com/STvSW/status/1750206508132897127
https://x.com/STvSW/status/1620653343805939712 (credit in tweet after this one)
I truly thought I had no contact method available but tried to ensure credit where due. Anyway, it's a bit late now, but just for the sake of due diligence I wanted to request permission for these mostly-academic fair uses.
(Also, lest I forget, thanks so much to all the hard-working people who've made Trek models I've used, both mentioned like the two gents above or otherwise. I'm a somewhat odd use case in that I don't try to blow them up or otherwise play with them in a game, but let me assure you that your work is extremely appreciated.)
Thanks!
It's time to do a mod of all the characters in the game aged by 23 years. The Bolian gets a beard.