Hi folks,
This has been one of those on-off projects that I fiddle with when I get the chance. This is a fairly normal process for me which is why I don't post many WIP's and why I'm beginning the thread with mid-point renders.
I started with the Tantive reference images from
www.modelermagic.com; big thanks to those guys! I decided almost immediately that I didn't want to do the stock Tantive. It's been done many times so I opted to change a load of the details In the hope that it would look different enough to make it worthwhile.
Theres a lot still to do; corrections, replacement parts, material fun and more details to come. I'll try to get some closer renders and commentary posted soon. Thanks for reading!
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Very well done. Looking forward to seeing more.
I refined the landing legs a bit more today. Its still lacking detail but it works mechanically now and packs away into the hull properly. Oh Look-At constraint; how I hate thee....... Max has its quirks but some are just plain annoying.
I've included a few close ups here. At these ranges there are a lot of block shapes visible. I'll probably pick them up in the later stages but for now theres more important work to be done: the forward turrets. Maybe tomorrow.....
Can we see a close up of the small turrets?
when we get the header back I can see this going straight on it
The dish was one of the first areas I detailed, looking at it now it appears that there is no actuator mechanism.... I'll have a think about what to do about that. Open to suggestions!
- Neil
And not a reflection upon you, but those secondaries , should be four forward, Port and Starboard. That is, the escape pods defeat the ship in terms of gunnery blind spots. To expand further: There should be two secondaries on top, one to Port, and one to starboard, with mirrored ones hanging on the bottom. The escape pods cause so many problems...
Yah, this would definitely have my vote.