I did a little yesterday but got annoyed with all the tiny mesh errors and thinking I should really build higher poly components for all the bits!
But Colb is right, in that the nacelles don't move. That's been done before. These Nacelles split, and both sections therefore have warp power.
In theory as it has a slightly flatter, bulkier belly, this should allow the ship to land on planets, or at least maybe the drive section (which as alluded to earlier is habitation, rather than the saucer section.) the ship is a fir amount bigger than voyager though voyager had bits that looked like they should fall off on a planet once you turned the engines (and thus strucutral integrity) off...
Yeah, like I said in the previous post. Totally deliberate... Totally not as a result of starting with a cylinder rather than a sphere and just seeing where it went.
You've come a long way from those first sketches, and I rather like it!
Thanks. My initial sketches are always about a very high level concept of what bits go where. I try and keep them deliberately child-like so as not to distract me with details. I often draw enterprises as a little circle with three rectangles, just to keep my eye on the 'feel' of the ship, I guess. Details and fleshy bits always get added on later. I guess that kind of approach is helpful for seeing potential in models, like I did with the Keltoi. I turned a universally hated design into a liked (though not brilliantly modelled) design.
There's post 16 on page 2/3, though thats the old nacelle. The new cuts are along the same lines, so the bottom nacelle is also about half the length of the top one. I'm just considering building more detail into the new nacelle before I cut it again, or wondering whether to just cut this one up, then detail, then build a brand new one sans mesh errors and then build a nice fluid looking version of the ship from scratch.
The separation is pretty cool; not what I was envisioning at all. Still like it better without the radial elements, but I'm willing to hang around and see how those develop.
If I'm honest, I wasn't that keen adding the sensor ring either, but I'll make it a separate component then, like any sensor pallette, it could always be removed.
The purple probably looks more pink because of the amount of lights. I'm sure once the skylight is off and we put her in a space environment, the textures will be refined to look more in line with how she should be.
Unfortunately I spent about 6 hours yesterday trying to refine the new secondary hull (after deleting several different new versions) and I don't think I'm going to be able to get her perfect (An STL check on the command module revealed 55 errors and I've no idea how to fix em)... Well, we will see how she goes after she's had some details, gets some weapons and so on, and see if she gets to look more Starfleety...
Started on greebles for the utility sections. Details inspired by a picture I've got of one of Medjai's models.
I'm content to find out she has 39 decks. Whilst that's less decks than the galaxy, because of her shape, she'll have plenty more internal space for computer cores, research labs and science facilities, as opposed to marine barracks, supernova cannons and multi-modal attack craft launch bays... Afraid my USS Fanboy is a science ship.
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nah i like what hes got going right now
But Colb is right, in that the nacelles don't move. That's been done before. These Nacelles split, and both sections therefore have warp power.
In theory as it has a slightly flatter, bulkier belly, this should allow the ship to land on planets, or at least maybe the drive section (which as alluded to earlier is habitation, rather than the saucer section.) the ship is a fir amount bigger than voyager though voyager had bits that looked like they should fall off on a planet once you turned the engines (and thus strucutral integrity) off...
Love the way the pylons spring from the hull!
Show me. :cool:
Yeah, like I said in the previous post.
Thanks. My initial sketches are always about a very high level concept of what bits go where. I try and keep them deliberately child-like so as not to distract me with details. I often draw enterprises as a little circle with three rectangles, just to keep my eye on the 'feel' of the ship, I guess. Details and fleshy bits always get added on later. I guess that kind of approach is helpful for seeing potential in models, like I did with the Keltoi. I turned a universally hated design into a liked (though not brilliantly modelled) design.
There's post 16 on page 2/3, though thats the old nacelle. The new cuts are along the same lines, so the bottom nacelle is also about half the length of the top one. I'm just considering building more detail into the new nacelle before I cut it again, or wondering whether to just cut this one up, then detail, then build a brand new one sans mesh errors and then build a nice fluid looking version of the ship from scratch.
Looks purple to me.
Are you gonna keep the long thin warp grill strips or add in bussard collectors? (or have i missed a post where you explained that.. if so, my bad!)
Unfortunately I spent about 6 hours yesterday trying to refine the new secondary hull (after deleting several different new versions) and I don't think I'm going to be able to get her perfect (An STL check on the command module revealed 55 errors and I've no idea how to fix em)... Well, we will see how she goes after she's had some details, gets some weapons and so on, and see if she gets to look more Starfleety...
Started on greebles for the utility sections. Details inspired by a picture I've got of one of Medjai's models.
I'm content to find out she has 39 decks. Whilst that's less decks than the galaxy, because of her shape, she'll have plenty more internal space for computer cores, research labs and science facilities, as opposed to marine barracks, supernova cannons and multi-modal attack craft launch bays... Afraid my USS Fanboy is a science ship.
The bottom part looks like it wants to go the other way though