hello SFM i thought id start a new thread so i can keep all my blackhips stuff together in one thread.
i should give some background on the series.
"The Blackships" is a project ive had rattling around in my head since i was at college but ive only recently started working on getting it down on paper as such. the basic idea is an entire mock world, tech specs, field reports, crew logs, videos, 3d models, recording the mission and expansion of a group of humans who decided that the bickering nations on earth were just holding everyone back and decided to leave.
This i always planed to be a huge mockumentry style project covering aproxamatly 100 years of the future from many different perspectives.
on SFM i will be posting my 3d work and please be aware that im still very new to 3d work so bear with me please.
first up is the "hero" ship the Oddessy in its original format that i posted in my old thread.
but i wasn't happy with it so i started again so here is the new oddy
and here are some details
il post up some more tomorrow please leave comments ect
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it all starts in 2012 when a major riot in the uk during the olympics causes the death of over 200 people by the police makes the original 26 members form the "non Aligned Alliance of Mankind" with the idea of creating a group of people who want no connection to nations and their belifes and who want a simpler system removing the complication from government.
for a year not much happens as the group trys to spread the word and proposed ideas until they are conntacted by an unknown party wishing to offer funds to accelerated the Alliances goals.
fast forward around 10 years and the Alliance has built the Oddessy with its original mission to travel to Mars and televise the whole event, to give the world somthing to lookforward to and follow rather then following the news on the myriad of wars accross the world.(such as civilwars in China, Africa, and the US)
what follows is a story of exploration,war,aliens,treachery and space.
and another old ship is the Ryl'Au'Shar heavy cruiser Alliance codename "lancer"
and her counterpart ship alliance codename hedgehog is an anti light cruiser support ship.
Smaller then the Lancer cruiser of the Ryl'au'shar fleet and nowere close to a match they have to resort to picking off straglers and already damaged vessels and flying in larger packs.
At 650m long it still dwarfs any human vessel is use at the time of Yy'ktor's war against the Ryl'au'shar(1996-2044AD).
Armement;
16 Qual'a cannons for ship to ship combat
4 Joshuuah proton cannons
26 point defense missle tubes
level 3 quantum phase shields
40mm Tungsten-obruium armour plates
better view of the Acheron
and the missile varrient
removed most of the weapons in lue of a large missle collar that is used to deny large areas of space to the enemy. capable of taking out whole squadrons of light cruisers or frigates this ship forces fleet commanders to spread the ships out to avoid massiev loses which makes them prey to the regular Acharons or the smaller fox class escort ship.
a render of a fleet that i messed around in Ps with i still dont understand how to UVwrap so i cant texture.
please leave me some feedback about the models i know they are basic but im just "sketching" really so i can get them outta my mind and on paper per say
these ships are great :thumb:
I love the asymmetry
but for the mo just another angle
more details including Port airlock 2 and the port emergency solar panal hatches, reactor vents and EVA access ladders.
please please please leave comments on anyything from the designs of the ships to my (bad) techniques and dont be afraid to offer suggestions and ideas for my project as im always after new ideas for ships and stuff to have a go at building.
Excellent Modeling work! I like your concepts so far. Having a little trouble understanding the scale of these ships. And on this post, I don't understand the need of the EVA ladders or the skids. Certainly, at this technological level there would be no need for such things, right? (Just asking ). The ship should be able to perform precision landings and only require sturdy landing gears, especially for a vessel of this size. Also, EVA would only need grappling tethers and thruster packs. I think you may be trying to add some visual interest, but I think texture and post-lighting work will add a better look along the skin of these vessels.