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Source: Deep Space Problems (by Ailantd - ArtStation)
Checking those noisy parameters.
They never look good enough.
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Imaginary Starships
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Source: IMG_3370 | David Schleinkofer | Flickr
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Here is a cleaner version of the alien ship I came up with for a BBC America children's Sci-Fi show. Original art is not available for sale.
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Source: Wild Lands FMP - Characters + Vehicles (by Daniel McGarry - ArtStation)
This post shows the characters and vehicle development for the main cast of my university FMP - "Wild Lands" - an episodic sci-fi concept.
Wild Lands follows the crew of the Phantom, a group of smugglers, as they explore, negotiate and fight their way across the galaxy. This project aims to portray a variety of genres and ideas through the lens of this crew - hopefully you stick around to see where they go!
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"The Cosmostrator" from the film "The Silent Star" - model kit by Pegasus Hobby - scale 1/350 - built by Scott Van Aken
(modelingmadness.com)
Source with a lot of details and 3 more pictures: MODELINGMADNESS.COM: Pegasus 1/350 The Cosmostrator, by Scott Van Aken
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used for the cover of vernor vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky"
now to me this looks quite a bit older than 2000; but that's what isfdb says, and who am i to argue?
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Source: room with a view (by Col Price - ArtStation)
after work quick idea dump.
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such a nice shade of blue. i like ships that have a bit more of an interesting palette than silver or white (like the freighters in ftl)
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a flat blue triangular ship with three rear booster engines hovers above a round hole in the earth surrounded by pumping stations. it is attached to a long gantry, across which walk two people
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Source: Oblion-S (by Félicien Nourry - ArtStation)
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"Orbital Combat Craft" [LOP-1 "Guayupe" Orbital Superiority Heavy Fighter] by Jean-Luc Sabourin
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Source: Orbital Combat Craft (by Jean-Luc Sabourin - ArtStation)
LOP-1 "Guayupe" Orbital Superiority Heavy Fighter
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Source: Modular Spaceship (by Lucas Hardi - ArtStation)
Close up render
I've always liked the idea of a spaceship that follow the same modular, guts-on-the-outside design of the ISS, but with a bit more style. This was modeled in Blender and painted in Photoshop.
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something a bit more conventional, i think
Practice between assignments
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i love these giant starships within the atmosphere evidencing how large they are
used as the cover of a.e. van vogt's "the secret galactics" and justin leiber's "beyond humanity"; as well as various others
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Source: IMG_3287 | David Schleinkofer | Flickr
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Ford Mantis .A new painting done in 2011. Background shows construction of a resort hotel on the Moon. The construction vehicle is the Ford built Mantis.
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Source with another render: Spaceship ALVIN (by Kentaro Kameda - ArtStation)
Spaceship design, inspired by Paul Chadeisson and Paul Pepera's incredible sci fi works.
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Source: Rain (by Ailantd - ArtStation)
Overloaded ship in the rain.
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is this technically a starship? i'm not sure. but it calls itself one, and i like it; so i'm posting it
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/6825407
Cover study for the Writers of the Future book series.
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Source with more info and images: Space: 1999 Catacombs: Kaldorian ship
The Kaldorian ship from Earthbound was the first alien spaceship seen in the series. It was made by Space Models- before Martin Bower was involved in the show - and the simple round shape is uncharacteristic of other alien ships.
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Source: Retro-Futurismus: Klaus Bürgle - Weltraumfahrt I
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Description (translated from German with DeepL):
The New Universe 87, 1970
The next step to foreign celestial bodies. Mars, neighbouring planet to our Earth, is the goal of manned space travel after exploration of the Moon. The journey, which will take many months, requires a new spacecraft system. Reusable space transporters - buoyancy bodies that take off vertically like a rocket but land on the runway like an aeroplane - operate as a ferry between Earth and a space station in Earth orbit. The nuclear-powered launch vehicle is stationed near them. A space glider serves as a feeder for the crew and passengers and piggybacks on the command section and lounge during the journey to Mars. Once the spacecraft has swung into orbit around the planet, the astronauts transfer to the lander at the head of the launch vehicle, whose re-entry section later returns to the mother ship from the planet's surface, as in the case of the lunar module. At the end of the expedition, the launch vehicle remains in Earth orbit while the space glider returns the astronauts to Earth. Space transporters replenish the fuel of the launch vehicle, which is maintained by the space station crew and made ready for a new mission.
Hi-res image source: The Art of Klaus Bürgle – Never Was
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Source: Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept | This three-radia… | Flickr
Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept
This three-radial-module space station concept was intended to utilize Apollo hardware to deploy the station and to transfer crews to and from orbit.
Image # : S-64-3704
Date: 1964
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Source with more renders: Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Visualizations (by René Aigner - ArtStation)
Last year I had the pleasure of visualizing a proposal for spacecraft using nuclear thermal propulsion (see https://usnc.com/ntp/ ).
Always a welcome change of pace to build something that is grounded in science and real engineering.
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