Savoia Marchetti S1000

kitflubber · April 21, 2009, 02:11:04 PM

Hi, I spent the morning building this model in Strata - I discussed this idea before under the Luxury Italian Boat Thread. This is a twin boomer like the other S series planes, but this one is enormous, and has a central salon.

kitflubber · April 21, 2009, 03:31:21 PM

The Grand Saloon is 40 feet wide and about 15 feet high at most.

kitflubber · April 21, 2009, 04:47:20 PM

I added a figure for scale -- added pillars as well.

Daryl J. · April 21, 2009, 05:48:31 PM

Jawdrop!!!!

Daryl J.

cthulhu77 · April 21, 2009, 07:48:51 PM

Where's the Martini bar for Kelly?

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kitflubber · April 22, 2009, 08:14:02 PM

Also decided the plane needs sixteen engines!

dy031101 · April 23, 2009, 01:03:47 PM

This is legitimately super-cool stuff!

Can't wait to see it finished!

kitflubber · April 24, 2009, 03:44:46 PM

I altered the structure in the main saloon -- I added arches for structural strength. The wing's main members run through This room.

nev · April 25, 2009, 03:09:53 AM

Some of the most innovative - in every way - CG work this website has ever seen. You sir, are the JHM of profilers.

Tophe · April 26, 2009, 10:39:55 AM

Very beautiful, thanks!

John Howling Mouse · April 26, 2009, 01:47:47 PM

Quote from: nev on April 25, 2009, 03:09:53 AM
Some of the most innovative - in every way - CG work this website has ever seen. You sir, are the JHM of profilers.

Thanks, but I'd go as far as to say he is the "slava_trudu" of profilers.
Amazing vision and ability to translate it to the screen.

kitflubber · April 26, 2009, 09:51:04 PM

Why thank you, John -- though I do not know who slava_trudu is, I thank you. I have been redesigning the sructural members that run through the lounge area, as well as selecting and building furniture. I decided to go with Eileen Gray, a really underrated genius of the 20th century. Not being born with a penis means a lot of her stuff is ignored. She was easily fifty years ahead of her time, perhaps more. So, I have populated the louge/salon with her Bibendum love seat, her Transat chair, her Bauhaus lamp and her sofa table (though I raked the bent chrome legs inward to look more jaunty). I assume there is some restraint system for the furniture -- likely a modular array of holes in the floor, with corresponding pegs on the furniture.

I will probably make the Transat chairs ebonized wood to match the floor with white leather upholstery. Who knew there was so much interior design on What If???

kitflubber · April 26, 2009, 09:53:53 PM

My research: Eileen Gray wove a lot of modern carpets, and in 1920-30s Paris, you went to her store (Jean Desert) if you were hip and rich. She could not call her store Eileen Gray, so she invented a partner, 'Jean Desert.'

cthulhu77 · April 27, 2009, 01:49:11 AM

Looks like a fun place to have a martini or two !!!!

kitflubber · April 27, 2009, 06:24:00 AM

Another view across the lounge.