I love the bulky armored look of that little cruiser.. kinda reminds be of BSG ships with the engine placement and such, but it works for the Empire so well.
Still messing with it - saw a really nice model of warlock class destroyer from b5 in another thread and made me fire up modeler again and make something inspired by it but for the star wars universe
no doubt many things will change yet though but thought i would throw it out here
Still messing with it - saw a really nice model of warlock class destroyer from b5 in another thread and made me fire up modeler again and make something inspired by it but for the star wars universe
no doubt many things will change yet though but thought i would throw it out here
cool, i can clearly see the warlock class inspiration but well done on making a distinctive ship based on it. it may benefit from some more antennae and aerials along with extra sensors and maybe some more turrets.
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it has turrets on the side - 2 forward and 1 aft facing on each side - the tops and bottom have an extra 2 turrets each but they have better line of sight on targets since the docking bays dont get in the way
so i dont want to add turrets where i dont think they would be effective - this ship can easily bring 13 of its 16 main guns onto a single target and well see the tiny black dot on the lower section under the cargo bay doors - thats a 6ft tall human so the guns on this thing are vast - i dont think it could handle much more firepower for its size (1.2km long)
i will add some more detail onto the sides to try and bring it more to life but i'm also trying to avoid the old lots of random panels approach since i gotta figure that when making a ship panels would generally be rectangular so they could be manufactured and stored efficiently
also gotta figured that any major systems except those that by design need to exposed would be hidden under armour plate - so is somewhat limiting - and might have to throw some pipes onto it to make it look right even though i think in fact it would be unlikely to have any pipes ducts cables exposed outside the armour
I am wondering if that Warlock-inspired ship is carrying massive, powerful particle beam cannons, you know same weapon from the GOD (Global Orbital Defense platform). The Warlock carried two of them, and they were powerful enough to one shot a new type of Centauri Vorchan in the Lost Tales movie.
Besides, it was also said that one shot from GOD's particle beam was enough to wipe out the United States' eastern coast.
It would be interesting if that ship carried them. Would make sense, considering the Earth Alliance would have to face potentially technologically advanced threats.
i could go with the random tiling of star wars ships but part of me screams noooooo they would have straight simple rectangular panels where ever possible just to simplify production lol - maybe once i fill in the unarmored sections with greebles it will look star warsy
b5 style is pretty cool, it still screams warlock class but i for one think that is a nice shape to have. front section looks good though those spines seems too fat, middle section also good but consider moving the heat radiators outwards a bit and detailing up the hull beneath them a little. rear section is good as an overall shape but badly needs more detailing on the engines, add pipes, some truss work and make the exhausts into either shuttle type engine bells or turkey feather style afterburners. perhaps look to the engine section of a B5 omega destroyer for inspiration. also you may wish to shift towards some larger weapons but fewer of them, although doing so is best done without significantly altering the shape with very bulky turrets.
p.s. how big should this ship be?
larger weapons? each of those turrets is nearly 100m long!!!! - they are unimaginably huge for a turret (really should be smaller and more of them but like the look -just hard to remember they are nearly about as large as a modern navy destroyer all by themselves)- this thing is a mile long with bigger guns than star destroyers - the engines are just tubes for now not really done any work on them yet - they will look more techy soon haven't thought much about what they will look like yet but want them to say star wars not babylon 5
anyway will try and get abit more done soon
XRaiderV1.7226I have absolutely no ideaPosts: 1,074Member
Still finding it a bit tricky to shake that B5 feel? Have you got a race or faction in mind for this starship? To make it feel more like Star Wars I think you need to take some design cues from existing Star Wars vessels and incorporate them into your design. I see you already have some spheres reminiscent of a Star Destroyer's shield generator/sensor domes, you need a bit more of that action going on, and some of that distinctive greebling which just screams of Star War's lived in and highly detailed universe.
Dude, nice ships! I love the modeling job. The nice thing about Star Wars ships is they look complete, even without textures. Also, nice work on the greebles, there's just the right amount, in just the right places. I especially like the corvette on page 13. It's just the right size. I can't wait to see more!
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Looks great sir
Well,now,.....this endorsment makes it even more awesome.
Kudos to you sir!
no doubt many things will change yet though but thought i would throw it out here
new guns - big and small - new radar dish - some detailing here and there - quite happy with it overall so far
so i dont want to add turrets where i dont think they would be effective - this ship can easily bring 13 of its 16 main guns onto a single target and well see the tiny black dot on the lower section under the cargo bay doors - thats a 6ft tall human so the guns on this thing are vast - i dont think it could handle much more firepower for its size (1.2km long)
i will add some more detail onto the sides to try and bring it more to life but i'm also trying to avoid the old lots of random panels approach since i gotta figure that when making a ship panels would generally be rectangular so they could be manufactured and stored efficiently
also gotta figured that any major systems except those that by design need to exposed would be hidden under armour plate - so is somewhat limiting - and might have to throw some pipes onto it to make it look right even though i think in fact it would be unlikely to have any pipes ducts cables exposed outside the armour
anyway will see how it progresses
Besides, it was also said that one shot from GOD's particle beam was enough to wipe out the United States' eastern coast.
It would be interesting if that ship carried them. Would make sense, considering the Earth Alliance would have to face potentially technologically advanced threats.
Really missed your Star Wars designs,hope you make more.
Happy New Year!
p.s. how big should this ship be?
anyway will try and get abit more done soon