A little project I've been working on.

Starship Modeler (www.starshipmodeler.com) is hosting a competition of
models of space craft and vehicles from written SF, which have never
been depicted on screen. While I doub't I'll ever actually build this
model to enter it, the rendering is fun.

This is the tug "Marcus Garvey", from William Gibson's Neuromancer. The
book simply describes it as a "tin can", 2m in diameter and 9 in length.
Based on just those facts, I've been building my ship piece by piece.

I like this ship for the same reason I like Borg cubes. It's efficient,
practical, and entirely inelegant (ugly, even).

I still intend to add an airlock to the near side of the middle
component, a "cockpit" structure to the far side of the front component
(I don't care for symmetry..), and a nice array of antenna and lights
near the engine. I also want to make the whole thing look a little more
complex with more wires and lights and tubing. Perhaps some navigational
thrusters. Finally, I need some labeling to identify the ship and its
owners (a Rastafarian colony, so it can be really interesting..)

I want to keep the ship looking believable. No warp drives and phasers
for this ship - I'm using modern rockets as my references...

Simon

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