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[den]

I wish I could render some of these

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[athelind.livejournal.com]

You mean like these guys (http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/tta/) are doing?

The "Terran Trade Authority" books were originally published in the '70s, as an excuse to print volumes of Cool '70s Spaceship Art by Foss, McKie, and others with a loosely-constructed backstory in a format modeled after Jane's Fighting Ships and similar references. Of course, I had at least one of the books in my own library.

Recently, a bunch of fans decided that this background would be a cool RPG setting, and got the rights to the concept. I saw the first volume in the bookstore a few days ago -- apparently, the royalties for the original paintings were prohibitive, so they've reproduced them as 3D computer-graphics renderings.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Yes, renders like those guys are doing.

[freetrav.livejournal.com]

He did some of the artwork for the Imperium Games release of Traveller (Marc Miller's Traveller, T4); I think I may recognize Diary 3 and Asimov from that line. Not bad, though arguably not in the common image of Traveller.

For more cool starship pics, take a look at Jesse DeGraff's stuff at http://visionforgestudios.com/jesse/traveller/traveller_gallery.htm (http://visionforgestudios.com/jesse/traveller/traveller_gallery.htm).