3DKlingon "Warbird" from STXI

madman1701a

Hey, everybody...

I've been working on this for a week now, and thought I would put it up. Modeling is probably 90% done, and I'm about to start texturing...

Here's my reference image. I'm sure a few of you have the book this came out of...



I tried to take parts I liked off of each version, so mine won't be "screen accurate"... the one from the movie seems to be just the old style K'Tinga, with some stuff stuck to it.

Here goes...









What do ya'll think?

somacruz145

Wow now that was a quick wip Looks great anyway :thumb: I only have mixed feelings about the wider head and triangular plating.

mikala

That came out really nice!
Now put 50 of them up against your Narada in a huge render

Starship

Dammed cool ship! The general shape turnned out better than the Enterprise. At least for my taste.
*** IsnA’t my intention to start a flame war about this, and I hope you all donA’t do it too.
Your mesh is turnning out very good!

deg3D

Pretty cool, dude.

Where is this design from, The Art of Star Trek book? The ref images, one looks like a toy, and the other a render.

deg

madman1701a

deg3D wrote: »

Pretty cool, dude.

Where is this design from, The Art of Star Trek book? The ref images, one looks like a toy, and the other a render.

deg

Yeah, it's from the art book. The top image is Ryan Church's concept art, and the bottom is the actual ship from the movie. It almost seems like ILM knew that we wouldn't see much of it, so they just stuck a few of the more prominent features on an old K'Tinga model they had. Still looks good in the movie, though.

madman1701a

Thanks guys. I really want to get back into animating things, I just have to get all my stuff built that I want to work with. I'll definitely get these guys going after the Narada, when it's done.

Melak

Nice work!
Can't wait til you blow 47 of them up

And might I say I'm glad it turned out different from Ryan's sketch in the movie? I mean I can spot nice features, but also some major fugliness

Buckaroohawk

Considering that you never get a good look at the Klingon ships during the Kobayashi Maru segment in the new movie, I'd have to say this looks pretty good. I like how the layering of the rounded area under the triangular "cobra head" kind of mimics the helmets the Klingons wore in the film; or, rather, would have if the Rura Penthe scenes hadn't been cut.

The book "Star Trek: The Art of the Film" is a great companion piece to the movie. Even if you didn't like the movie I highly recommend buying the book. It has a wealth of information and images that really bring the filmmaking process to life.

tobiasrichter

Very nice design and a very nice model - IA’d just add a few more polys to the bridge - I can see polyedges in the curvature...

madman1701a

Thanks guys.

madman1701a

tobiasrichter wrote: »

Very nice design and a very nice model - IA’d just add a few more polys to the bridge - I can see polyedges in the curvature...

Thanks, Tobias!

Do you mean the triangular head part? The front of it needs to be smoothed out some, I know.

madman1701a

OK, I think this is done, for now.









I'm not 100% happy with some of the textures, but I think they'll work. I can't texture round things worth anything.

Now I'm off to render a good one with it fighting my Enterprise.

count23

Looks good, but from what i read on doug Drexler's blog, the D4 concept ship Rob Bonchune made for enterprise was the STXI klingon "warbird"...

BTW, are you considering making the other federation fleet ships once this is done? Apparently high quality images of all the fleet ships + kobayashi are on the BD rom of XI. Toby Ricter made some orthos of them which are floating around shipschematics.net if you wanna take a peek.

mikala

Excellent!
Will be watching for the E vs Klingon pic!

BrianSzep

Hi Madman,

Great looking model. I would like to know what kind of light setup you are using in Blender. I use the same program.
Can't wait to see the big battle.

-Brian

madman1701a

Thanks.

I was using this image as my reference:



That's a scan from my Art of Trek book. on the opposite page, they had the sketch of the D4 there, as well as the "Bird of Prey" from Enterprise. I wasn't sure what the reasoning was behind including those images, except that they looked cool. Do you have a link to the blog?

madman1701a

BrianSzep wrote: »

Hi Madman,

Great looking model. I would like to know what kind of light setup you are using in Blender. I use the same program.
Can't wait to see the big battle.

-Brian

It's pretty simple, actually... in these renders, I have one "Sun" lamp, at an intensity of 1.1. I have a blue bounceback light which is another "Sun" lamp, at about .3, coming up from the bottom, and at the very bottom, I have a Hemi light facing upwards at an intensity of about .2 .

Here's a quick fight scene I did in about half an hour last night... The battle damage isn't great, but I thought it was fun anyway.

Chanur

Wow, she's a real beauty!!!!
Cant wait to see her after the paint had dried

trekki

A great work, more Pics please.

Shadowknight1

MadMan, I'm pretty sure that the "D4" and the BOP were actually inspired by, not ripped from Enterprise. After all, the Enterprise Bird-of-Prey didn't have 8-10 disruptor cannons.

That is really good work, considering how few images there are of this Klingon ship.

nova1701dms

Great looking picture Madman!!

madman1701a

Shadowknight1 wrote: »

MadMan, I'm pretty sure that the "D4" and the BOP were actually inspired by, not ripped from Enterprise. After all, the Enterprise Bird-of-Prey didn't have 8-10 disruptor cannons.

That is really good work, considering how few images there are of this Klingon ship.

Thanks.

I'll have to scan the image I am talking about, but the sketches were definitely ones from the D4 that was built for Enterprise, but never shown, and the little Bird of Prey that we did see. I guess they put them in there for filler...

madman1701a

OK, found the images I was looking for...

Here's John Eaves' concept for the D4:


And his concept for the Klingon Bird of Prey:


And the page in the book I was talking about...


I'm still not sure why those two designs made it into the book, when they were done up back in 2001!

Polaris 004

Not only is that a cool image, but it's my favorite image so far of the new Enterprise. Now if you could just destroy it a little more.

Pearse

I think John said he submitted those sketches for Trek XI since they were along the lines of what was required anyway, but they weren't chosen.

Starship

Splendorous Kligon ship Ricky!

Shadowknight1

Well, John Eaves probably went back to these when he was working on stuff for the new movie.

madman1701a

Starship wrote: »

Splendorous Kligon ship Ricky!

Thanks!

[Deleted User]

Lovely work.

publiusr

Your take on the new movie ship is really great. I actually like the super-armed Bird of Prey. But rather than looking retro--it looks more like a Klingon Defiant killer.