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Either has to be an x-wing or slave 1 for me (star wars fan boi)
Tintins rocket from Destination Moon-simple but elegant.
Perhaps not an all time favourite but mention needed for the Normandy. Spent a lot of hours on this franchise. Between this and the SR2 I think the original wins.
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It has to be one of the Iain M Banks Spaceships. Minds of their own, capricious, ridiculously capable.
This might be of interest, it shows the relative sizes of various ships. JMC Red Dwarf is on the lower left, star trek stuff is upper right side.
Right click -> open in a new window to zoom.
Nice and compact if you want to pop home occasionally.
The spaceship poster is great. 👍
For a bit of 'me time', I'd have to pick the X-Wing. For hanging out with mates it would be the Millenium Falcon, even more so if Chewie was part of the crew. Sure, there are loads of others to choose from, but I'll always have a bias for the original Star Wars ships.
Significant soft spot for the Star Wars ship designs, TIE Interceptors for just being fast, fragile and a bit nuts. B Wings for being just a cool design and obviously the classic Star Destroyer for sheer screen presence.
Klingon Birds of Prey are also just cool looking ships as well.
Good call on the TTA books (a few posts back).
I have Starliners and Great Space Battles. The artwork is fantastic, with Peter Elson being my favourite as a kid.
Having read some Culture novels I imagine the ships as if he had drawn them.
Can't do pictures as I'm not clever enough but the alien spaceship from Life of Brian...although really, even though someone already bagged Battle Beyond the Stars, it was always the little super-fast ship from that film I preferred!
Has anybody mentioned The Heart of Gold? 150 meters long, and shaped like a sleek running shoe. It was perfectly white and mindbogglingly beautiful. From the book, not the film.
Yeah I always liked the B-Wing for being a bit left-field (or right-field depending on which way round it's flying).
My other favourite - the Fer de Lance
Damn this thread! Just bought a TTA book.
Did anyone else have the classic space Top Trumps as a kid? Awesome mix of still shots from films and hand-drawn scifi madness.
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Did anyone else have the classic space Top Trumps as a kid? Awesome mix of still shots from films and hand-drawn scifi madness.
Yeah, it said an Eagle was faster than light and a Cylon Raider was about a quarter of a mile across! The 10 year old me couldn't deal with such bollocks.
Ah well it's "Fate Amenable to Change" for me.
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Full MemberDamn this thread! Just bought a TTA book.
Sorry (NOT 😉)
Millennium Falcon
and real...
Voyager 1
I always liked the very functional Y-Wing even though it seemed to be the Fairey Battle of the Star Wars universe
Several for me - as there seem to be for quite a few others!
- USS Defiant NX-74205
- Millennium Falcon
- USS Enterprise NCC-1701
- Incom T-65B X-Wing
A Voyager 1 sketch.
Early Mamba concept sketch in Camo... before it became Black.
Perhonen from the Quantum thief series is a pretty cool ship.
Create personality too.
Fireball XL5 - I’ve got a really nice diecast model of it, the decent capsule/cabin detatches and is held in place by a magnet. It’s about a foot long.
Babylon 5 Shadow ships, amazing looking ships. Always wanted a model, but we’re only available as resin garage kits, and I never got around to tracking one down.
As others have said, Culture ships are immensely appealing, but until the book of Banks’ drawings and concepts comes out, difficult to know what they really look like.
Also difficult to pin down which is a favourite, really, but ‘Grey Area’ might come near the top of the list.
Also, Blake’s 7 ‘Liberator’.
spent hours building Lego versions of the starfleet bomber when i was a kid.
Me too! I managed to make a blocky-looking Dai X too, but not so it could fit on X-Bomber. Loved the series!
Favourite spaceship? The one I'm sat in right now.
Help me out here.
I had a bunch of Airfix and related spaceships as a little kid. Mostly I had no idea what they were. I had an Eagle as per the thrust of this thread; I had an Angel Interceptor (cool AF, never even heard of the show at that point); and thus and so.
And I had this three-part model that I really only very vaguely remember. Big white cruiser, a Thunderbird 2 -a-like belly of the beast cargo thing that came away, and I think the 'head' of it was also a separate flying command module affair, kinda A-wing shaped. Probably the same "just slightly before my time" Captain Scarlet / Space 1999 era as above.
Does that ring any bells with anyone?
I liked the earth ones in SG1 cos they looked about as primitive as you'd expect.
@cougie...
I liked the spaceship in "The Navigator" film.....
Amazed me just how many Eagles were crashed. Not sure if they just had a massive stock of them or an Eagle factory on the moon that could churn them out quick.
Anyway, the Liberator gets my vote
https://www.deviantart.com/tenement01/art/Blake-s-7-Space-Fall-800642851
Recently the Avalon from Passengers, for the bar apart from anything else.
@cougie…
Hell's teeth!
Nice catch sir. Thank you.
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(Gary Anderson?!)
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Watch Captive State last night.
Liked the Alien Rock Ships.
and another...
I’d have a Navigator too. The moment it spun around to get pointy and fast blew my mind as a kid. The CGI was great for its time too. I’m a man of simple tastes.