Thought I might as well make a thread for this, even though every man and his wife has done a connie, here's mine anyway. I'm not going for a 100% perfect reproduction of the filming miniature so I'm allowing a little freedom and flexibility in details just to get what I think looks good.
Plus a variant with glowing inner nacelles just for fun...
You know, incidentally, I actually love the TOS Enterprise when there's no weathering and stuff, like your model currently is... it looks so clean. lol
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You know, incidentally, I actually love the TOS Enterprise when there's no weathering and stuff, like your model currently is... it looks so clean. lol
I was just saying exactly that in the discord. I'm tempted not to weather it tbh, probably just a very subtle dirt on the roughness map to give some variation but that's it.
You know, incidentally, I actually love the TOS Enterprise when there's no weathering and stuff, like your model currently is... it looks so clean. lol
I was just saying exactly that in the discord. I'm tempted not to weather it tbh, probably just a very subtle dirt on the roughness map to give some variation but that's it.
Ha! :P Yea, and those bussards are my biggest hurdle, I can never get them looking right. I'm hoping Daniel Broadway finishes his TOS Enterprise, I plan on redoing the Enterprise finale, but I can't seem to come across a very screen accurate TOS Enterprise.
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Although, the grid lines weren't physically there until that one dreadful "refurb" of the original model, they were essentially penciled on.
They were pencilled in to the filming model during production in an attempt to further accentuate scale, but unfortunately never resolved on screen. The '91 refurb just exaggerated them, on the underside anyway. Once we get to the refit model made with a much higher budget we have actual scored lines so I've if the opinion they were always 'meant' to be there.
I know people have passionate views on the grid lines though so I'm doing 2 versions of the saucer; one with cut lines and one with 'pencilled' lines.
Although, the grid lines weren't physically there until that one dreadful "refurb" of the original model, they were essentially penciled on.
They were pencilled in to the filming model during production in an attempt to further accentuate scale, but unfortunately never resolved on screen. The '91 refurb just exaggerated them, on the underside anyway. Once we get to the refit model made with a much higher budget we have actual scored lines so I've if the opinion they were always 'meant' to be there.
I know people have passionate views on the grid lines though so I'm doing 2 versions of the saucer; one with cut lines and one with 'pencilled' lines.
Working to scale, pencilled on grid lines, would be an extrude up, instead of an indentation in. so you could have subtle rounded panel lines on the surface, and have them be like a centimetre up from the surface.
I did think about that but I came to the conclusion that panels lines sitting proud would be so weird compared to what we're used to that its looks weird. Plus we've seen it nowhere else in trek. The fact that they were pencilled on the model is for time purposes, I'm taking it that the intention would be that they were scribed.
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I cooked up some basic interiors that I will render out as 2d textures to use on rooms behind the windows. Same technique as I did previously.
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I was just saying exactly that in the discord. I'm tempted not to weather it tbh, probably just a very subtle dirt on the roughness map to give some variation but that's it.
Ha! :P Yea, and those bussards are my biggest hurdle, I can never get them looking right. I'm hoping Daniel Broadway finishes his TOS Enterprise, I plan on redoing the Enterprise finale, but I can't seem to come across a very screen accurate TOS Enterprise.
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Testing gridline depth yesterday. I've rebuilt the saucer since this so will re-cut them all.
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hehe :P Nice!
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Tried something different to the usual space shot too;
The model is 99% complete I just need to re-do the grid lines as some are sat on geometry at the moment and it's causing shading issues.
Re-built the saucer at a higher subd level to combat shading issues, cut grid lines;
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They were pencilled in to the filming model during production in an attempt to further accentuate scale, but unfortunately never resolved on screen. The '91 refurb just exaggerated them, on the underside anyway. Once we get to the refit model made with a much higher budget we have actual scored lines so I've if the opinion they were always 'meant' to be there.
I know people have passionate views on the grid lines though so I'm doing 2 versions of the saucer; one with cut lines and one with 'pencilled' lines.
Working to scale, pencilled on grid lines, would be an extrude up, instead of an indentation in. so you could have subtle rounded panel lines on the surface, and have them be like a centimetre up from the surface.