circular starship deck plans ?

JimP

I know the spacestation deck plan examples that came with Cosmo are circular.

I was wondering if anyone had circular floor plans for a small starship ?

Decks like the old 1950s space ships. Cylinder, pointed end, large fins.

Kind of like the picture below.

JimP

Anyone ?

jaerdaph

I haven't drawn any myself, but check the images on this page out for ideas:

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3p.html

This is an interesting read too:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10310525-52.html

JimP

I saw the von Braun one when I was a kid. Willy Ley ships and ships and space station to.

On the second link, I guess they don't realize hand crank telephones in low/weightless conditions will cause the one doing that to move so as to thump their forehead into the wall or their shins/kness into the wall. Depending on which direction the hand crank turns... :-) Voice activated microphones would be a better idea.

Thanks for the links. I'll try some on the first page. I'm not much of an artist though. I'll have to figure out how to do the wings.

edit, corrected Mr. Ley's first name.

JimP

These pastic models 1950s show some of the items talked about in the 1950s. The von Braun ones in particular were in Popular Mechanics magazine. There was a book as well. Wiley Ley was either the artist or the author.

edit: the link in this post mentions Colliers magazine when you click on the Von Braun 3-stage Ferry Rocket picture.

2nd edit: owch. The prices are high, 125 dollars for the 3-stager, not including shipping.

JimP

Okay, I have surfaced after spending around an hour reading over the links/pages at rocketho.com as it has a myriad pieces of info. Wowsers.

Highly suggested reading for sf buffs and authors.

JimP

Here is the link for large deck plan that i will be changing to for my starship wanderer. I may use a very modified version of this for the circular starship deck plans for smaller ships.

Umikuma

Here's one I did for Traveller - it's a 100 dton scout. There's a large deck plan here.

bearclaw

I'm just putting the finishing touches on a 15 deck passenger liner named "The Embecker Dance". Just working on the engineering decks then I've just got to complete the labeling. Here's a peak at the 1st class deck (Deck 3).

Though it's not a 'small' ship, it is the same type of layered decks. There is no artifical gravity generators so 'gravity' is provided solely by the accelleration/decelleration of the ships engines.

JimP

Very good !

I'll attempt to make some as good next week when I take some vacation.

Frosty

That looks like a lot of work. From what I can see it looks amazing.

JimP

Oops. I forgot about this thread.