3DDerelict ships

rojren

(The contents of the first post have been moved to the second post.)

rojren

Over the years (and years and years) I've scribbled out various space ships that obviously would not have been built by the same cultures. So I made up a research division of a generic Federation-like government that gathers and studies derelict space craft.

I'll be dumping ships here as I get around to working on them.

The first is one that looks like a clump of salt crystals. It's a bit bland at the moment.


Tag: 0000 117428-0023992
Type: spacecraft
Status: adrift
Location: North Ekurre Cobo Obscura
( Orion 021.75+0230000.25 )
Culture: unknown
Est. Age: 3.12 billion years
Max Dimension: 321m
Nickname: Cubist


Added some things. Moved other things around.

evil_genius_180

I like the rearrangement better than the original. Also, I like it with the added bits. They make it look less like a bunch of cubes mashed together and more like a ship.

rojren

Well... the original was just a bunch of cubes mashed together. Just a basic pattern to build on.


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Now, it's a bunch of cubes with things​ attached.

rojren

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I think I'm through with this one, for a while. I'm moving on to something else. I'm learning a fair bit doing these things - although the main thing I'm learning is that 3D in AutoCAD is still annoyingly buggy.

rojren

Tag: 0000 117021-0021411
Type: spacecraft
Status: adrift
Location: Olmstead Asteroid Field
Orion 011.00-018500.80
Culture: Azure Thoughts of Gravitas
Est. Age: 142 thousand years
Size: 118m
Nickname: Hex Moth

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Doomsponge

It's a very unusual, very distinctive style you've got with your stuff. I like it a lot.

rojren

"Distinctive". I like that. Thank you.:)

Next:

Tag: 0000 117667-0028012
Type: spacecraft, generation ship
Status: under power, abandoned
Location: Oort cloud, Syremsarsh Minor
(Orion 019.06-20700.10)
Culture: Syr, 4th Ammikiir Dynasty
Est. Age: 16 thousand years
Size: 6.6 km
Nickname: SyrGen

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rojren

Here's a start on the drive section of the generation ship.

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rojren

Started on the body of the ship.


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rojren

Added details to the ring. The outer part of the ring is mostly water-ice storage. I had thought of having the outer part of the ring being a large collapsible 'balloon' that would get smaller during the journey.

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rojren

So, I added more stuff to the inner surface of the ring, decided I didn't like it, erased it and started over.

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evil_genius_180

I like that one a lot. Great work so far. :thumb:

rojren

Started on the bow. Didn't get much done today - and I'll probably re-do it. I don't like the ridges. I also realized that there are details that can't be seen any longer.

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Pagrin

Nice. I like the overall look of the craft, but the engine is very nice indeed.

rojren

Thank you. I had a bit of luck with the engine. Autodesk had recently added transparency to the layer settings in AutoCAD.

rojren

Removed the hidden details, and started reworking the bow.

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rojren

Rebuilt the bow again. Somewhow the 'petals' got out of alignment. I need to change the nose more. I don't like the hockey puck at the very front.


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rojren

I removed the hockey puck, and added a bit of color to some of the surfaces. I think I'm done for the time being.

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evil_genius_180

Looking great, I like the colors.

rojren

Playing with shapes.


Tag: 0000 117919-0020007
Type: spacecraft, cruiser
Status: mothballed
Location: Trickster Yards, Chsoro Oblast
(Orion 005.94+197050.87)
Culture: Trickster
Est. Age: 780 million years
Size: 500m
Nickname: Tag-along



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evil_genius_180

That's pretty cool.

rojren

Thanks. I was trying for a B5 'First Ones' kinda look, with a level of physics that make overconfident physicists mumble to themselves in dark corners.

Hmmn, at least I did manage to confuse the hell out of AutoCAD when I tried to put a radius on the openings of the spheres.

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Tag: 0000 100093-0086122
Type: spacecraft, frigate
Status: abandoned
Location: Bluefield Corridor
(Orion 010.10+191110.16)
Culture: Noeliraut
Est. Age: 800 years
Size: 650m
Nickname: roller

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evil_genius_180

I've seen very little Babylon 5 and I don't remember much, so I'll take your word for it.

rojren

Later that same day...


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publiusr

Very nice--the 'hockey puck ship looks like the Palamino from the Black Hole--good job.

rojren

Added pointy things, and some unpointy things.


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evil_genius_180

You'll put your eye out, kid.

Looks good.

rojren

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

You'll put your eye out, kid.

Looks good.

I love that movie. "Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense." , "He had yellow eyes, so help me God, yellow eyes!"

I love quotable movies.