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Pencil on Bristol Board. This is the ubiquitous Subsidized Merchant starship from Traveller, slightly re-imagined by Dave Dietrick (in the Traveller Adventure) and myself. Originally I did this drawing for myself, just trying to work out what a starport pad might be like. It was later published in Starship Operators.
Thanks for taking a look!
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:iconickman:
Nice drawing. I love the game, haven't been able to play in years though since moving to the middle of nowhere.
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:iconbear48:
you do very nice work
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*Urus-28 Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Very nice drawing =D
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:iconwbyrd:
Oh the trouble you can get into piloting one of these.....<walks off whistling innocently>

One of the first Sci-fi games I ever played. and I have to admit one of my favorite commercial ships to this day.
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~dcmstarships Oct 29, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
nice Traveller design
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*Drell-7 Oct 30, 2012  Professional General Artist
:D
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~riftroamer Oct 24, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Tom, this is awsome. Well I actually complimented about that illo (from the Operators Manual) more than once.

I am so grateful that you put it up here, as the illo in my book has very light lines and even postworking on the scan never brought the details out correctly. Now I can start remodelling my clumsy Type R variant with proper reference art (something that's been on my to do list for ages). :)

You definitely branded THE Traveller Fat Trader design. I just love it.

The Image has been a favorite of mine since the times we were actively playing Traveller from the moment I held the Operator Manual in my hands. The book itself however looks a bit overused these days, I must regretfully admit.
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*Drell-7 Oct 25, 2012  Professional General Artist
Thanks! I never was terribly happy with the reproduction in SSOM. By the time it was reduced to size, it lost a lot of detail. The original is 18 " long, so you can imagine the problems reproducing it with a half-tone screen. Actually finding the original and scanning it has made me go back and rework my own Lightwave model of the Fat Trader!
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~Zoggman2000 Oct 24, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This is the best illustration I've ever seen of that ship.
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*Drell-7 Oct 25, 2012  Professional General Artist
I'm glad you like it!
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