Legostein Posted January 3, 2010 Posted January 3, 2010 (edited) Hello everyone, we now have the year 2010. And this remembers to a great movie from 1984 named "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (Odyssey Two). It can be considered the sequel to the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Odyssey One) from 1968. Both novels, on which the movies are based upon, are from the popular science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke. The first movie was by Stanley Kubrick, and the second one by Peter Hyams. While Odyssey One features many nice starships, Odyssey Two only features one main starship. It's the Russian Starship Leonov, the main location of the movie which houses the Russian/American crew. Their mission is to recover the Discovery One which got lost during the first movie. Realizing that I didn't mention anything about models from these two movies on these great forums yet, I'd like to catch up on this, if you don't mind. Thank you to Siegfried at this point who made me remember this. Let's start with the Leonov as being appropriate regarding the year we have. It's comeplete with docking clamp, rotating middle section and detailed engine block behind it. It is approximately to scale with the Discovery One and thus allowing for setting up the docking scene with both ships from the movie. Click on the images to see more angles of the ship and the instructions. This leads over to the other ships from the earlier movie (Odyssey One). These are (in alphabetcial order) the Aries IB, the Discovery One, the EVA Pods, the Moonbus, the Orion III, and the Space Station V. They're all very detailed and the Moonbus and Aries IB feature a lot of SNOt techniques. The names above are direct links to their images and instructions. Below are provided thumbnails of them which are also links to the gallery. For those who don't like BrickShelf the entire content can be found directly under http://2001.deckdesigns.de I wish you all the best for this year! ~ Christopher Edited January 3, 2010 by Legostein Quote
Siegfried Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 Very nice! You done especially well with the rotating section. This is actually one of my favourite movie ships... but it's not so popular with most people as it looks so un-streamlined. But that's OK with me! If humanity ever gets around to leaving Earth orbit it'll probably be in something like that. We really aren't designed to long term low gravity and artificial gravity makes no sense at all. (It would make it impossible to fly straight...) With the other designs, I especially like Space Station V and Aries-IB. Quote
Legostein Posted January 4, 2010 Author Posted January 4, 2010 Thank you, Siegfried! I am glad you like it and to have found another fan of these movies. Cheers, ~ Christopher Quote
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