The Simple Spaceship Chart

    A while ago I ran into a box of old spaceships of mine in our cellar, I photographed a few of them and thought it would be nice to document them all while at it. I found a total of 11 spaceships (not including the numerous LEGO ships) in our house, most are my oldies, a couple of them belong to the kid. I shot all of them straight from the bow to capture their character.

    After I had photographed them all I thought they'd look great in a poster, I added some trendy graphic noise to go with it. I think it turned out allright.

    There's an Avanaut Facebook page for those who like liking such things.

    UPDATE (August 18): There's a typo on the poster (Calactica instead of Galactica, bummer!), but I'm not going to fix it, as replacing the image would sever link between this and some of the pages it has been posted to. Maybe later. Also, I'm aware that the snowspeeder is not a "spaceship", but I thought it would pass just this once. And yes, the relative size of the ships varies, they're not in the same scale, in my mind it just looked better this way. :)

    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      Evil Cheese Scientist, angad84, Hydrology, HRMZD, and 208 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Evil Cheese Scientist (9 months ago | reply)

      Fantastic work!

    3. HRMZD (9 months ago | reply)

      Ok, you totally need to either share a hires version of this or make a few and sell them so I can buy & hang one up in my office at work! =D

    4. Shanti Basauri (9 months ago | reply)

      Vesa, this is great! Great idea and great work! I also got those ships in different versions (except the Cylon) but I'd love to do a poster so cool as yours!

    5. Mouser NerdBot (9 months ago | reply)

      I second what Be Flux said. I'd buy one...

    6. cheeser359 (9 months ago | reply)

      Well done!

    7. Longfinger1 (9 months ago | reply)

      It's Great! Are you selling them? It would look great matted and framed! I'd buy one. :)

    8. grzesiu (9 months ago | reply)

      Hm.. Jedi starfighter looks funny... cockpit is too small?

    9. uubergeek (9 months ago | reply)

      lol.. confused when i first saw it before reading the text... my first thought was... that's no where near accurate in scale to each other lol

    10. Avanaut (9 months ago | reply)

      Thanks!

      I was not planning to selling this as there are the ubiquitous copyright issues that are at play here. With all the names™ from four different copyright holders written all over the poster...

      Yes, the cockpit probably looks odd for two reasons: First, the glass of the bubble canopy pretty much vanishes when lit from behind like this, even though it is there, it doesn't really show. Secondly, looked at from straight ahead the Astromech unit completely obscures the pilot (who is sitting in the cockpit in this photo). It makes you wonder who whould design such a ship? I mean, to have a bubble canopy for maximum dogfight view from the pilot's seat, and then placing a droid in front of the cockpit entirely ruining the view so thoughtfully created by the bubble desing. Or maybe the little easykit model simply isn't that accurate, I dunno.

      Yeah, the scale is tossed here, it would've been really difficult to figure out the accurate sizes. Instead I just used the visual volume of the silhouettes for the looks.

    11. grzesiu (9 months ago | reply)

      Yup, the model has completely wrong proportions. ( you sure it's Revell? not the Hasbro one that converts into diorama? - the latter has propportions changed due to diorama thing) Not that it matters ;) Love your work anyway, as usual!

    12. HoodedOne (9 months ago | reply)

      Is it disturbing, that the only thing I didn't recognize is the Mercury 7.

      Love that eagle. I had one like it as a kid. It's probably stored in a box somewhere.

    13. photo.koss (account deactivated) (9 months ago | reply)

      Good work!

    14. Krabl (9 months ago | reply)

      Now waiting for a side view version... ;)

    15. Deane Patterson (9 months ago | reply)

      I really got a kick out of this - keep up the excellent and unique creative perspective - I like the way you see things.

    16. keith kendall (9 months ago | reply)

      Wow!

    17. Avanaut (9 months ago | reply)

      It's Revell, allright. I guess it's just the angle that makes it look odd.
      Well, friendship 7 is difficult to recognize when photographed from the bow. If this angle is considered the bow in the first place, it is from where the pilot (John H. Glenn Jr) is facing, though. The Eagles are great!
      Thanks!
      I tried it (again after your suggestion), but some of those ships look awkward when shot from the side. Think of the TIE Advanced, it's just the wing. It's a good idea, though, and maybe I'll do something along that line later.

    18. swfan1963 (9 months ago | reply)

      That is FANTASTIC. Too bad about the copyright infringements - I would SO buy a poster or print of this!

    19. trike (9 months ago | reply)

      This is tremendous. I am totally stealing this idea.

    20. Pinko Scum (9 months ago | reply)

      This is awesome! Great work.

    21. bill.d (9 months ago | reply)

      I bow to your awesome geekness and photography skillz.

    22. T.G. Swenson (9 months ago | reply)

      Amazing work! B-Wing Starfighter sometime please!

    23. Avanaut (9 months ago | reply)

      Thanks! I wish I could sell, but I really prefer sleeping my nights peacefully. :)
      That's what Flickr's for. :D
      Thanks!
      The B-Wing would be great to shoot but unfortunately we do not have one. Not even in Lego.

    24. orchidtears666 (9 months ago | reply)

      An amazing poster. You really should get some of these printed to sell. I would certainly buy one. Maybe get rid of all the small writing on it which mentions ship names etc and that way you shouldn't have any issues with copyright infringement I would have thought.

    25. AndyLand (9 months ago | reply)

      VERY cool photos. Tried a similar approach here hereinandyland.tumblr.com/post/29792585352

    26. MH LC (9 months ago | reply)

      I'm too lazy to do any of this myself but, these thoughts were posted on anther website
      bitchin'
      couldn't agree more but since its the first one I've seen, pretty cool. Can't wait for your corrected chart. In fact, this a challenge to all.
      Read more at thechive.com/2012/08/19/top-tapiture-photos-o f-the-week-5...
      Appendices as attached links with schematics, original credits, original design development, etc would be nice. Could really nerd out on that.
      Read more at thechive.com/2012/08/19/top-tapiture-photos-o f-the-week-5...

    27. D for Derivative [deleted] (9 months ago | reply)

      Beautiful. Now where do I pre-order?

    28. DrezLab (9 months ago | reply)

      Magnífico.

    29. Jazz_Lego (9 months ago | reply)

      Amazing work here, very inspirational. Thank you.

    30. m_o_n_k_e_y (9 months ago | reply)

      great piece of design

    31. davey_g (7 months ago | reply)

      Submit it as a T-shirt design to Threadless - you can make some money that way.

    32. Mishria (5 months ago | reply)

      Cool poster, but the Snowspeeder is not a spaceship.

    33. trike (5 months ago | reply)

      It's a modified spaceship, adapted to Hoth's climate.

      (I'm a little sad that I know that.)

    34. Avanaut (5 months ago | reply)

      I did not give it too much thought when I made this poster, I figured the Snowspeeder would pass as a "spaceship" along with the other ships. I still think it's good to go with the others, even though, according to starwars.wikia.com, it is not supposed to be capable of spaceflight after all. I don't care, though, it's all within the science fiction realm. Cool ships, good enough for me. :D

      Thank you all for the supporting comments!

    35. Tehsi (5 months ago | reply)

      Wow, this is great. It reminded me of toys of days long past.

    36. skrump (4 months ago | reply)

      This is awesome, Great Work!!! A friend shared this image on Facebook, and I hunted all over the Interwebs to find you. Damn those copyright issues, I would LOVE to buy a poster of this image and hang it in my boy's room! (The little dude is 2 years old, gotta get him started off right!)

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