Asteroid Prospecting

[scooter]

I think I might have a couple more renders to do before this is finished and figure out the plot, but here's the start.

Hi Rez here

Hi Rez here

A small (near future) transport/prospector ship checking out some asteroids near Jupiter.

[kerick]

It looks bigger on the inside......

[Steel Penguin]

rather more traveller 2300, than Wild Bill Williams from the Lensman series

the lensing on the window is an interesting effect, as well. i admit i noticed it, but youve used it in simeler shots before so haven't commented before on this pair of shots.

heres hoping for an interesting series from this as well.     

[scooter]

the lensing on the window is an interesting effect, as well. i admit i noticed it, but youve used it in simeler shots before so haven't commented before on this pair of shots.

I like messing with folks' vertigo.

[Steel Penguin]

the lensing on the window is an interesting effect, as well. i admit i noticed it, but youve used it in simeler shots before so haven't commented before on this pair of shots.

I like messing with folks' vertigo.

your an evil evil man Scooter    

[NARSES2]

rather more traveller 2300, than Wild Bill Williams from the Lensman series

Now that takes me back a bit. One of the very few Sci Fi series of books I've read. Read them whilst recovering from my heart attack many, many moons ago. The other series I read at the time were the Skylark series. Still got them all.

[Weaver]

rather more traveller 2300, than Wild Bill Williams from the Lensman series

Now that takes me back a bit. One of the very few Sci Fi series of books I've read. Read them whilst recovering from my heart attack many, many moons ago. The other series I read at the time were the Skylark series. Still got them all.

Both bits of it take me back: I've still got a first edition of the Traveller 2300 game up in the attic, and a shelf full of E.E. 'Doc' Smith's books. I read all the Skylarks too: don't they seem dated now? They might have been reprinted in the 1970s with up-to-date artwork, but they're still VERY much a product of the 1920s. The other "E.E. 'Doc' Smith" series I read as a kid was the Family D'Alembert series, although those were really by his "collaborator" Steven Goldin, based on a novella he wrote and published after his death.

Did you know that the officer who invented the Combat Information Centre for the US Navy, Captain Carl Laning, publically acknowledged in a letter to John W. Campbell (editor of Astounding magazine) that he drew his inspiration for it directly from the Lensman books?


First sci-fi book I ever read:

[Gondor]

I too, have all the series mentioned above, Traveller 2300 and the original Traveller in the small books as well. I bought all my EE Doc Smith books in the late 70's early 1980s when I was stationed near Weston-Super-Mare. There was a small book shop near to the British School of Motoring where I was taking driving lessons, so of course I popped in.

[Weaver]

I too, have all the series mentioned above, Traveller 2300 and the original Traveller in the small books as well. I bought all my EE Doc Smith books in the late 70's early 1980s when I was stationed near Weston-Super-Mare. There was a small book shop near to the British School of Motoring where I was taking driving lessons, so of course I popped in.

Yep - got tons of original Traveller, MegaTraveller and TNE as well.

[Steel Penguin]

Same here with GDWs products    and a good pile of Challenge as well, usefull for keeping up with the TNS  and the ongoing story line in universe. 
ive got the Lensman series, ( mostly an inheritance from my late father), ive read the Skylark books and a couple of the Family D'Alembert books,  they are reasonably good sci fi,  and some of the ideas are steal able for many games in one form or another   

Hey Scooter have they suited up, and broken out the fusion cutters / beam sabres yet ? 

[Gondor]

I too, have all the series mentioned above, Traveller 2300 and the original Traveller in the small books as well. I bought all my EE Doc Smith books in the late 70's early 1980s when I was stationed near Weston-Super-Mare. There was a small book shop near to the British School of Motoring where I was taking driving lessons, so of course I popped in.

Yep - got tons of original Traveller, MegaTraveller and TNE as well.

I am definitely going to have to find some of the craft I designed and start a thread to post them to.

[scooter]

Hey Scooter have they suited up, and broken out the fusion cutters / beam sabres yet ? 

I might have something this weekend

[Steel Penguin]

Hey Scooter have they suited up, and broken out the fusion cutters / beam sabres yet ? 

I might have something this weekend

Yay   

[scooter]

Hi Rez here

[Old Wombat]

Oh, no! 

You gave your astronauts "Hollywood" helmets!