Hi,
its been sometime since I have posted anything here, and to be honest nothing of note.
That said I have recently started a project as I am looking at making a very high quality wallpaper for myself. It will be a montage of shuttles passing by the K7 station.
I have built the shuttle, it still needs work, and I have now fleshed out a low poly station so that I can try to visualise the dimensions etc. The differences between blue prints and studio shots of the station vary greatly so making a low poly station was a good way to go think.
I will now start work detailing new parts of the station, hopefully I will stick with the project long enough to start with some interiors also.
Comments, advice, suggestions and pointers are always welcome.
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Jenny, thanks. I don't intend to go out of era with the shuttle selection, although I do intend to throw in some different types.
I know what you mean about the blueprints. I built one a few years ago using only the blueprints and, when I got it done, I found out that it was nowhere near being screen accurate. They may get you there as far as the general layout, but you're going to have to do some photo-based work if you want it to look like it did on the TV series.
Nevertheless, you made a great start on your model.
Many thanks, I was not aware that the blueprints were from the AMT kit, but that does explain allot. I have spent some time now replacing certain parts of the station with higher poly objects. Looking at closeups of the studio model I think I will opt for bump/normal mapping for some of the minor hull detail.
I apologise for the double post, I'm thinking about the shuttles and ships that will be in the shot. Can anyone identify this? I though it may have originated as a TAS design but I cant seem to find a reference to it?
As for the ship in the docking bay, I'd guess it's probably Cyrano Jones' space ship. We know he was on the station and he was a trader, so it would make sense for him to have a small but not too small ship that one person could operate.
I have decided that the scene will be an evacuation of K7 during an attack, so a perspective shot showing the damaged K7 and fleeing shuttles etc.
Edit:
http://www.neutralzone.de/database/Federation/CivilianShip/Spacematic.htm#Bilder
Thanks guys, its called the Spacematic. I'll rough her out next and she can be a destroyed shuttle for the final image.