TMP V'ger model interior BTS photos!!!

[Jadeb]

Was the Glencoe model shop in Glencoe, Scotland? I was surprised to see the Doctor Who shirt.

Interesting that they did all that greebling for V'ger but didn't feel the need to cover the Enterprise in it.

 

[Christopher]

More likely Glencoe, California.

 

[Firebird]

Interesting that they did all that greebling for V'ger but didn't feel the need to cover the Enterprise in it.

Different effects houses - Enterprise started under Robert Abel & Associates, and was only modified with extra detail after Douglas Trumbull came on due to some water damage on the hull.

 

[Christopher]

Different effects houses - Enterprise started under Robert Abel & Associates, and was only modified with extra detail after Douglas Trumbull came on due to some water damage on the hull.

No, I'm pretty sure they started over from scratch with the Enterprise miniature. It did have surface detail, but it was smooth, in the form of the "Aztec" hull plates, rather than bumpy.

 

[Indysolo]

More likely Glencoe, California.

Marina Del Rey, CA on Glencoe Avenue.

 

[Maurice]

I'd hope so, but the modules look like habitation areas, with regular viewing apartures that are lit up.

Maybe being so close to the front of the vessel, this was where the machines building V'ger "lived" during the construction.

Of course, at the scale V'ger is some of those "windows" would be the size of the Enterprise.

Different effects houses - Enterprise started under Robert Abel & Associates, and was only modified with extra detail after Douglas Trumbull came on due to some water damage on the hull.

Moreso that the Enterprise was portrayed like a beautiful ocean liner whereas V'ger was a living machine. Of the design, Syd Mead says he was inspired by Angkor Wat, with the vegetation grown over the buildlings, so he conceived V'ger as all this biological looking stuff grown over a mechanical frame.

 

[David cgc]

Moreso that the Enterprise was portrayed like a beautiful ocean liner whereas V'ger was a living machine. Of the design, Syd Mead says he was inspired by Angkor Wat, with the vegetation grown over the buildlings, so he conceived V'ger as all this biological looking stuff grown over a mechanical frame.

Probably because of mis- or over-interpreting Kirk's line about V'Ger "amassing so much knowledge" as a kid, I remember imagining that when the Machine Planet first sent the probe on its way back to Earth, the V'Ger ship was much smaller, and grew into its final form as it traveled. Perhaps just the globe and "engine" section at first, with the fins and elongated nose developing over time.

 

[Christopher]

Probably because of mis- or over-interpreting Kirk's line about V'Ger "amassing so much knowledge" as a kid, I remember imagining that when the Machine Planet first sent the probe on its way back to Earth, the V'Ger ship was much smaller, and grew into its final form as it traveled. Perhaps just the globe and "engine" section at first, with the fins and elongated nose developing over time.

That's not an unreasonable interpretation. I think it was meant to appear as if it had grown rather than been built.

 

[jaime]

That's not an unreasonable interpretation. I think it was meant to appear as if it had grown rather than been built.

Accrete would be my goto.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

OMGB (Oh my Great Bird)! These photos are spectacular. The scale of the model is impressive.

 

[publiusr]

I think the thing that amazes me the most is the fact that it was made of hard substances, wood, plastic and resin, and hardened foam. In the film it looks like it has some give to it, like it's organic. I always got the impression that if you touched it, it would feel warm.

I seem to remember they left bits of it on a beach--and folks thought it was a sea creature.

 

[Maurice]

I seem to remember they left bits of it on a beach--and folks thought it was a sea creature.

Sounds like a myth. Who'd bother trucking all that out to litter a beach with, unless they used it to make a bonfire.