Modeling a Star Trek style hull - Blender

Dan

Hi there, I'm having trouble creating a starship hull in the similar vein of Star Trek. More specifically I'd like an easier or more efficient way of creating one, so far I've only extruded and resized from a top down outline. As the title says I'm using Blender.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Mach Crit

Right outta the fourmadmen website:

FourMadMen.com - Saucer Tutorial #1

saucer tutorial in Blender

Falin

Saucers are easy, how about the secondary hulls

CrimsonLine

You want to have the 3D window split into two different views, side and top, and put the blueprints for each view in the background of its respective window. Start with a circle at the fore end of the sec hull, and then extrude it in steps aft, to match the contour on the blueprints. Voila! and Hey Presto!

Dan

Thanks for the tips, I tried my old method of making the top down outline and extruding, resizing and fiddling about and my second attempt came out pretty good (i think).

CrimsonLine

Show some pix!

Dan

These are the progression pix for the ship. I've gone through 3 different hulls. The last one is the most recent render.

CrimsonLine

OHHHHH! THAT kind of Secondary Hull. I thought you were talking something Constitution-class-like-ish-esque-ian. For a hull like the one you're making, I'd use subdivision modeling.