Whilst procrastinating work on Starship V, I decided to revisit the good old shuttle Alpha. This was the very first ship in the fleet, and my design work has come a long way since then.
The simple version of the shuttle does not have the modifications for the interior. This is something I need to address, and also there is no version of the detail version of the shuttle with the landing gear retracted.
So what did I do? Ignore these issues and start detailing the interior! There is a lot of wasted space in the interior of the shuttle. Especially once the standard layout tiles are in place. While it seemed a good idea to have seating, showing the inside of the walls, it used up almost an inch of interior space by itself. So I will probably revisit the interior tiles as well.
The much roomier interior…
In all, the planned changes include the following:
Restructuring the folders to have the detail version be default
Only adding detail to the lower section of the fuselage – with the top on, you can’t see the extra details anyway
Updating the low detail version forward fuselage to have the correct groove for supporting cockpit tiles
Detail version of the shuttle to get a version with landing gear retracted
If I have time, I am also looking at:
Doing a print in place hinged version of the shuttle ramp
Making new tiles for the cargo bay, removing the internal wall structure
