The Odysseus spaceship... One of my favorite SyFy ships of all time, with the Cygnus and the Entreprise D.
I started to model one in 3D, to be 3D printed later on, but the ship is extremely detailled and to do it justice, it would have to be a decent size. Plus, it was not always consistant throught the show, so the details are not always at the same place and thus it's quite hard to go further than the figure of the ship. So I dropped the project for now.
A company made a model in metal diecast a few years back, but the details... well, there aren't any details really, and the price was way too much for what it was. :/
Hello, I'm new to the site.
I've been working on a 3D model of the Odyssey/Odysseus. It's one of the best ship designs ever, but I have never seen an accurate model. The expensive collectors die-cast is a joke - it's actually less accurate than the 1980's toy!
I now have plans for the ship on my DA page: Odyssey model plans by ~3djinn on deviantART
I want to build it as a real model, but I think the support structure could be a problem. I don't have a workspace where I can do metalwork (even if I had the skills and tools).
Wow, a real model would be wery cool. I think this cartoon is my first awere sci-fi encounter, as a kid I've build the Ulysses' shuttles from LEGO all the time, but building the ship accured to me only once, then I thought it was too wicket. Till some time in 2012, when I rewatched some of the episodes and started thinking of a project like this. I've considered vacu parts, and some fiber elements of the ring for durality with wooden support structure, becouse I can't weld.
You've draw plans and have will and hopefully we all be here to see your model.
I used to love Ulysses 31. I miss the days when cartoons for kids were more than just badly drawn animals throwing up on each other.
I once made his laser gun/ sword out of an old luger with a plastic sword sticking out the top, it didn't look right or last that long but in my mind it was identical to the one in the cartoon
Manchu has posted his original Odyssey concept drawing on his blog: manchu: ODYSSEUS
It looks a bit simpler to build than the Shōji Kawamori version. They were probably still planning to realise the ship as a computer generated wireframe model at this point.