been a while since i posted anything and after being away for awhile i took some time and started work on a few halo based USNC ships
set after the loss of the pillar of autumn some of the ships are still around and then theres some new ones
first off my take on he USNC frigate based off the savanna from halo reach
C&C welcome guys dont be shy
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from what i figure they look like launch bays for pelicans or large cargo bays
shrugs well seeing as this is my take on the ship i'm going to make the front of these pods into pelican bays and add some ballistic bays and cargo bays on the side
anyhow heres a render of them getting under way
bridge section now modelled and added in all this is minus detailing
now being no good at uv mapping and unfolding etc and suggestions for paint jobs welcome
suggestions for extra details welcome ie windows, some internal sections etc
the lor ella class strike frigate
armed with a single frontal MAC 1 dual barrel reat rail gun ( own design and idea ) 2 frontal facing railgun turrets and 4 side facing rail gun turrets on each side plus an added 32 missile bys on each side pod this ship is deadly if flown by the correct pilot
i maybe adding certain rooms internally ie bridge, engine room, turret control centre, cyrosleep room and maybe an A.I. centre in future updates
C&C welcomed and greatly needed
:NOTE: other views available on request
Also why Red?
i'm kinda no good at uv unwrapping and mapping etc
i'm also wanting to do some new turrets to go with it but i have no clue as to how the turrets of the savanna ( halo reach ) where so its hard to make something with out any reference material
these might be final on the release model but if i can eventually get some better ideas or ref's than i may change them
anyway presenting the 1200mm repeator turret
I decided to have two types of ballistic turret on my frigate, a single barrel auto cannon and dual tri barrel gatling type turrets. I still need to beef them up to make sure the ammo can feed in ok : http://liam887.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/rd13.jpg
You can see the placement around the hull better in this shot: http://liam887.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/frigate-wip.jpg
Loving this ship would love to do a render of it next to my Frigate and destroyer when they are finished!
nice work on your frigate liam
low poly count sitting at just over 5000 poly's
i'd like to add more detail just not sure what or where at the minute
anyway check her out C%C welcome
C&C welcome also if anyone wants to join me in doing a full collection of halo ships and ground units for both the USNC and Covi's drop me a PM
And if she were 20 km Long (which would make her they largest ship, ever in the UNSC Catalog) she could carry a Dual S-Mac. But she'd need am Massive Power Reactor. And would in all likely hood be an Snail In Space/SlipStream. and would be best Suited to Defence.
I have no Real Critic on the ship, just it's paint job. Thou for the Rule of Awesome, you could put a bunch of Frigate Sized MAC's on the sides for MAC broadsides.
now about the size she's roughly 2/3 the size of the savanna in reach and the dual heads hide a gun in each whether this gun is a smaller mac i havent yet decided i can tell you this though she's capable of using active camoflauge during movement and turret firing but has to drop cloak to fire her main weapons
and now for my first ground unit a new modelled scorpion its still wip atm and theres plenty of work to do the main turret is based off todays real life M1-A1 MBT
:NOTE: the human is a free ref model found on turbosquid so ignore him lol
i decided to start a couple of new ones a combat helicopter based on the rah-66 and harrier jump jet ie vtol engines and not rotors and the mammoth mobile repair station ( based off the elephant )
anyhow heres a couple renders to show how they going so far
let me know whats you think