Random DoodleJust found in a pile of papers.

The Pukhara Scout „Smiling Jack“ docked to the dorsal AirLockof the „ISV W.Connors“Below the scene the FarTrader „Diamond Heart“ sneaks by.

Eine Skizze, die ich heute in einem Papierstapel fand.

Traveller Starport ClassesWay back when, there was an article about Starports inTraveller titled „Happy Landings“ by Thomas M. Price,

published in White Dwarf magazine. It featured quite a fewnice details about the layout of typical starports and alsoset the perspective of scale to another magnitude. A few daysago, I decided to create these starport types in Blender forpotential future use in a 3D animation or just for reference.

Class E StarportI started with the most simple installation, the Class Estarport. This one comes in two variants. One with and onewithout an adjacent Scout Base. The first and second previewrenders show both versions. You can see the circular shape ofthe scout base in the distance in the second picture.

Class D StarportThen, based on the models created for the Class E, I startedassembling a Class D starport, which also adds a startown tothe concept. There also is a scout base shown in the distance.The whole port including it’s startown is circumfenced, asboth – starport and startown – are under imperial jurisdictionand thus extrateritorial land on any planet. The port itself

is also separated from the startown, to prevent civilians anddrunken sailors alike roaming the installation. Being somewhatlarger, the Class D port also features more Parking Bays.

Class C StarportBased on that Class D starport mock-up, the Class C wascreated, adding more parking bays and pads, as well as alarger startown.

Class B StarportAgain based on the previous effort, this installation alreadyshows size. Featuring two Landing Fields, connected byexpansive Taxiways, that also lead to as many as 20 ParkingBays – not counting the Scout Base shown in the distance. TheStartown again grew to about twice the size of the next lowerStarport Class and the Support installations between theLanding Fields boast numerous Repair Hangars, Warehouses andStorage Facilities. The Size of the circumfenced area isaproximately 6 by 11 kilometres (for comparison: the runwayportion of the landing field is aproximately 1 kilometre wide,

with a total length of 5 kilometres (including the landing padon one end).

If time permits me to do so, I will try to assemble a Class Astarport next week. More renders will follow, as I plan toimprove the materials and texturing. Also in this process Iwill try to define individual components to be reused withoutthe need of individual editing. I hope to be able to createvarious starport layouts using these common components later.

Class A StarportThis time the Class A Starport differs slightly from the„Happy Landings“ Article, featuring more Parking Bays and anenclosed Navy Base. The image shows an Installation capable ofservicing close to 500 smaller starships (up to 1000 tons) inits 71 parking bays plus a few hundred on the three landingfields.

ToDoI plan to refine the materials an texture details. The landing

field an Runways are to get some basic markings showing therunway and parallel taxiways, as well as the landing pad andthe parking positions on the field. The scale of most of thehangars is off. These need to be scaled upwareds by a factorof 2.5 to 5 depending on the model used. The other models areall in the same scale as my Traveller starships.

The Class A Starport devellopment is currently on hold. I willfirst split the starports into individual files (they are allin the same file currently), to bring down the polycount, asthe Class A Starport boasts as many as 60+ Landing Bays, threeLanding fields (one being a Navy Base), all the associatedsupport infrastructure and a Startown even larger thanadjacent to the Class B Starport.

Textures are either procedural, or based on textures frommaxTextures. Except for a few buildings from „Utopia CityBlocks“ (by Stonemason). Parts of the Startown are made withScene City (though some changes were necessary to get thetotal count of tris from more than 75 million down tosomething manageable by my computer).

I stumbled over the „Happy Landings“ Article while cruisingthe web on my regular sites. The „Atomic Rockets“ section ofProject Rho featured the Maps used to assemble the models.

GURPS Traveller Bundle ofHoldingGrab it while you can. I just topped up my Traveller eBooklibrary with the available Bundles of Holding and from whatyou get – at less than 50 bucks – it’s very much worth theinvestment, I’d say (even though I already own GURPS Traveller

1E and Starports paperback editions).

GURPS Traveller Essentials Bundle of Holding contains:

STARTER COLLECTION

GURPS Traveller 2EStarshipsFirst InDeck Plan 5: Sulieman-Class Scout/Courier

BONUS COLLECTION

Behind the ClawHumanitiStarportsModular CutterDeck Plan 2: Modular CutterDeck Plan 1: Beowulf-Class Free Trader

GURPS Traveller Imperial Survey BoH contains:

STARTER COLLECTION

Far TraderAlien Races 1Planetary Survey 3: GranicusDeck Plan 3: Empress Marava Far Trader

BONUS COLLECTION

Alien Races 2Alien Races 3Alien Races 4Planetary Survey 1: KamsiiPlanetary Survey 2: DenuliPlanetary Survey 4: Glisten

How it works: The starter collections begin with attractivelow prices, which can be topped off by paying more to get thebonus colletion included. The price raises over time depending

on previous payments. A quick descision pays off.

„Lone Lady“ bound for video…A short while ago Noah Ternullo of Pittsburgh, PA based ITConsultancy Digital Arc Systems contacted me with the requestto use my models for a movie. I decided to support the ventureand provided Noah with one of my models, since it would becool to see it in a high quality animation.

DAS-TCG+Promo_libtheora

http://traveller.chromeblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DAS-TCG-Promo_libtheora.ogv281 SichtenDigital Arc Systems TCG PromotionWhile I personaly didn’t think ot it as a production qualitymodel, Noah was confident that it would suit their needs. Iwas very eager to see the resulting animation as soon as itwould be finished.

This is the craft Digtal Arc Systems wanted to use for theirproject:.

The previously published model in a 5 point artificiallighting setup…

Here are a few shots of the model in a desert lighting setupand the second image shows the rear section as well, which Ihadn’t finished prior to Noah’s request…

Views from above….

The personnel airlock and landing gear…

Marava with airlock open and gear up / airlock open and geardown

Marava with airlock closed and gear down / airlock closed andgear up

As can be seen in the video above, not all features were usedor prominently visible, but none the less the video is quitecool.

Link to the Resource Page for the „Lone Lady“(PasswordProtected)…

TravellerIllustrated.comI guess it was about time to register my own domain for thesite. So when I installed the Jetpack-Plugin for WordPress andregistered a dedicated wordpress.com user-account, theyoffered my to register the same as a full fledged domain:travellerillustrated.com

Nice, but I wanted that domain with my webspace provider oftrust and registered it. So from now on we will also beavailable through http://travellerillustrated.com

Starship – RIC Star ClassArmored MerchantFinally a textured model of the 300ton Armored Merchant. Theimage below shows the vessel in her Rhaan Interstellar Corp(RIC) livery.

Rhaan Interstellar Corp – 300dt Star ClassArmored Merchant „Solar Flare“

Star Class Traveller 5 Stats

Vol Name TL Free Gs J PP Fuel Duration MCr Computer Crew Psgr. LB Notes

300ArmoredMerchant

12 50 1 3 3 99one

month135.36

ComputerModel/2bis

6 8 10 sl,a/r

Star Class Traveller SRD Stats

The standard Air/Raft features a matching paint job with RIClogo, while the 4ton standard Container sports anImperiallines livery.

Small Craft – 30ton Ship’sBoatHere it is, finally. The 30ton Ship’s Boat got a livery. Andnot a completely bad one I would say. The 4dt container in theimage below is just a quick by-product that might see a bit ofimprovement in the future.

30ton Ship’s Boat, Copyright 2015: TravellerIllustrated

More to come…

Small Craft – An OverviewThe mission of this site is to eventually model and textureall the common and some less common adventure class starships (ACS) from Classic Traveller (CT). As of now I have modelleda good batch of craft that need a livery badly.

In order to see which ships or boats need one and to keeptrack of where I am with this venture I frequently render agroup shot or parade of all (significant) models and texturevariants. Of course I actually produced more texture variantsfor some than shown in the render below, but some were simplynot to my liking. No need to bother anyone with those.

More to come…

Small Craft – 10 ton SloopJust a quick model of a tiny craft designed by HG_B over at

CotI forums.

10ton Intrasystem Sloop

And for the livery I think I’m going in the direction of a

classic VW T1 bus… ☺

Starship – 200ton Free Trader

200ton Free TraderUsing a 200-ton, TL10 hull, the Beowulf Class Free Trader isan elementary interstellar merchant ship plying the spacelanes carrying cargo and passengers. It mounts jump drive-A,maneuver drive-A, and power plant-A, giving a performance ofjump-1 and 1G acceleration. Fuel tankage supports a 1 parsecjump, at 20t per parsec, and one month of operations. Attachedto the bridge is a Computer Model/1 std. There are 9staterooms, an owner’s suite, and 20 low berths. There are twosingle turrets, but without weapons installed. Cargo capacityis 82 tons. The ship has a streamlined hull, with scoops andintakes for frontier refueling.

The ship has 4 crew, and can carry 6 passengers and 20 lowpassengers.

The ship above is my way to bow my head towards a fellowartist Andrew Boulton who depicted the first „modern“ FreeTrader for Traveller and made it to become the Cover Art fornewer Traveller products. Sadly Andrew passed away in 2012leaving a gap in the community of 3D Traveller artists. Thanksto Andrew I got in to Traveller Art in the first place.

Some Stats:

Measures of the ship (bare hull w/o antennas, turrets, etc.) as renderedin the Image above:Length: 37.5 m (25 squares)Width: 21.0 m (14 squares)Height: 9.0 mVolume: 2813 cubic metres(200.93 dt, overtonnage less than 1%)

Vol Name TL Free Gs Jump Power Fuel Duration MCr Computer Crew Psgr. LB Notes

200FreeTrader

10 82 1 1 A 22 4 weeks 42.6 Model/1std 4 6 20st,fs,2t

The Brawlin’BeastDabbling around with Blender again. Version 2.71 promises afew features I wanted to try for a while, so when Iunexpectedly found some spare time yesterday, I fired upBlender and went for it.

Landscaping, Texture Painting, Character Posing andAtmospheric Effects are some of the things I wanted to try.Now I’ve barely scratched the surface of what can be done, butalready the first tries start to look promising. Have a peek:

Some Stats

Vol No Label MCr Notes ----- -- ------------------------------ ----- ------------------------------ 200 Streamlined hull 14 20 Jump Fuel (1 parsec) 0 1 parsecjump, at 20t per parsec 2 Plant Fuel (one month) 0 one month 4 PowerPlant-1 (A) 4 P 1 10 Jump Drive-1 (A) 10 J 1 2 Maneuver Drive-1 (A) 4 1 G 1 Fuel Scoops 0.1 1 Fuel Intakes 0.1 0 AV=10. 1 Kinetic Plate 0 1 Computer Model/1 std 1.5 1 Life Support Standard 1 10 person-months 1 Life Support Luxury 1 10 highpassengers 2 Clinic 1 12 6 Standard Stateroom 0.6 1 passenger 15 3 Passenger Commons 0 1 2 Shared Fresher 1 4 passengers 10 2 Crew Commons 0 82 Cargo Hold Basic 0 10 20 Low Berth 2 1 passenger 6 Owner Suite 0.4 fresher +safe 6 3 Crew Stateroom 0.3 1 crew 0.5 Crew Shared Fresher 0.5 4 crew 2 Cargo Lock 0 0.5 Air Lock 0.1 2 2 AR T1 Empty 0.4 8 Spacious Bridge 0.6 2cc 2op 0ws -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 200 TOTALS 43

The „Tin Lizzie“The Tin Lizzie is an old beaten up Free Trader our „Year’sEndgame“ Group will have to endure. She’s not a beautyanymore, held together by duct tape, borrowed replacementparts and things found at scrap yards or elsewhere.

The Pilot is Harlan Wolfe – an aging ex-scout trying to makeends meet – with a patchwork crew of four humans hardlymeeting the requirements for the vessel.

Vol Name TL Free Gs Jump Power Fuel Duration MCr Computer Crew Psgr. LB Notes

200FreeTrader

10 82 1 1 A 22 4 weeks 42.6 Model/1std 4 6 20st,fs,2t

The Tin Lizzie operates on a Vala-HPJ-2A jump drives, nowmounts a Billstein SMD/A maneuver drive, and a power GeneralSystems FP/A2 power plant, giving a performance of jump-1 and1G acceleration. Fuel tankage supports a 1 parsec jump, at 20tper parsec, and one month of operations. Attached to thebridge is a VelociAct SureCalc-1 Computer Model/1 std.

There are 9 standard staterooms, an owner’s suite (used forhigh passengers), and 17 out of 20 available low berths. Thereare two single turrets, with a sandcaster and beam laser inthe ventral turret and a dual missile launcher installed inthe dorsal turret. Cargo capacity is 82 tons. The ship has astreamlined hull, with scoops and intakes for frontierrefueling.

The ship has 4 crew, and can carry 6 passengers and 20(currently 17) low passengers.

Examples of a New Paint SchemeCustom naming or color variations of the paint scheme belowand a non-exclusive, non-commercial (and free) usage licenseupon request.

Help Is Near

Strikin’Lucky V1

Strikin‘ Lucky V2

Strikin‘ Lucky V3

Racing Stock

Race Near The Gulf

Classic Brit

More To Come…

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