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Originally Posted by mbauer
Was wondering where you got your reference material, just finished reading your TNG thread as well as the one for the German Tin Toy request by Diderick on his "Early SF Wanted" thread.
I have two 1950's style rockets, but I've been wanting to do some from actual movies from the 1950's. I've searched various leads, have a few that the plan is to make as Stomp Rockets.
This explains why I haven't run across some of the ones you've done!
Found and created a "Real Rocket" planes from the 1950's, the SF ones are going to be done as the counter part.
I read where you mention that most of the movies from the 1950's used the V2 as a source for inspriation. It is easy to see that, now that you've brought me up to date!
Really like the textures you're doing, They look fantastic!
The rebuild of the TNG model looks like it was allot of work (youtube video). Didn't watch the whole video, my internet is really bad here, did watch about half of it. Just took about 15-minutes to load, before I gave up. Very interesting project!!!
BTW-Never got into Babylon 5 myself....
Mike
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With regards to reference material... I've been researching and studying these topics since I was a wee lad and have been a big fan of science, sci-fi, modeling, trains, cars, airplanes, space and so on from the time I was six. With 50 stareing me in the face, I couldn't begin to tell you, other than books, the science channel, the history channel, pulp fiction, sci-fi and so on.
Regarding 50's style rockets, I'll be making more, other than that, if you have a specific design in mind I might consider it, or make the attempt to fins soething for you. The internet is a vast resource and is easily mined for this type of thing.
Werner Von Braun was the father of modern day rocketry and was taken by the US Govt when WWII ended as the Nazi rocket program was years ahead of the US and Soviet's programs perspectively.
Wernher von Braun
The textures are just reworked and cleaned of versions of the originals from the game, though I do have plans to create my own. I was working up a UV map of the Jupiter version, but was beaten to the punch, though I may still revisit that....
The Refit has been in the works ofr more than five years, but sat on a vendors bench for the better part of 2.5yrs......