Me too. I was ten years old when it came out and I got to go see it in the theater. So, I guess I haven't always found it funny, but I have for a long time.
Haha, yea. its a great moment in the movie, even though you know only the camera's pov can see it
one last pic for the day, ended up doing normal scribing. a quick test to see if they're deep enough to even see on the black skin (barely, gonna go a lil deeper).
turned on the armament too :devil: BW_3.2-005.jpg
Ah man that was the coolest thing as a kid! I've always wondered how well an aircraft with wings like that would actually fly...not at all I imagine
i cant find the thread anywhere at the moment, reverse image searches arent finding anything but more "look at this! posts"; but there's a guy who built one at 1/8 scale (i think) as a turbine powered R/C. and he said he was surprised at how stable it flew! By76379.jpe
I think part of the fun of the Batwing... especially that shot with the moon... is that it literally looked like a toy that we would have (even before the Batman movie, it's shape was basically a toy) flying the way we imagine our toys flying, and then when it's splashed against the moon, looking cooler than we could IMAGINE our toys flying could look. Although I don't think that was really something in Burton's head when he was making the movie.
I forgot to model the Gatling gun!
cockpit instruments/controls, and rear landing gear is all thats left. i'm going to spend a week or two on the Phoenix though :devil: BW_3.2-009.jpg
It's looking really good so far. Though, you have some minor smoothing errors on the part I circled (both sides of the cockpit) It's nothing major, though, and shouldn't take long to fix.
yea, i still have not really gotten into much detail on the arms yet. i seem to have lost the backup file with most of my tie saves in the move. (when upgrading computers) i had to re-create almost everything. all i had was 1/4 of a wing the front canopy, and the basic scribed ball...
on the upside though, i still had my notes and kit list on the greebles so i didnt have to find any references and could just get right into re-creating them
On Friday morning when I was all set to get started for the day, I decided to spend a few hours more on the Tie before getting back into the Phoenix. However, on Thursday afternoon just before I was done for the day I had a power outage only to discover that last month during a different storm/outage my son had "borrowed" my UPS to use his ps3... Not a big deal, I was only minorly annoyed. but cut back to Fri AM and before opening up MAX i grab my most recent .bak, and the last 3 autosaves. (untill yesterday i left the autosave count max at 3, today my settings are 1 per minute for an hour... lol)
well, i look in the project folder and the most recent hard save was at 3:11pm. the .bak was at the same time. the autosaves were 3:48, 3:51, and 4:02 (outage was at 4:05)
i thought all these timestamps were extremely odd btw. autosave settings were 3 files at 5m interval...
well, the hardsave was fine, i thought i had interval-saved past then because there were a LOT of changes since then. so i go into the autosaves. most recent (4:02) all the data is there, it just WONT LOAD. no errors or anything, and not corrupted...
so i dig into the 3:51. same deal. getting a little frustrated at this point.
now i try the 3:48 file. just fine, except: all the data is exactly identical to my 3:11 hardsave.
at this point i shut down MAX and fire off an email to Autodesk CS, and start looking online for file recovery or auditing software while i wait for a response. the various forum hits i find in google arent promising, and ****-out-of-luck are what i expect for the files and my eventual response from Autodesk.
when i do get a response the rep notices i have a 2012 license too and asks if i can open the files in '12.
i had forgotten just WHY i decided to uninstal '12 and go back to 10, but i figured its worth a try and i'd re-install.
turns out every time i try, the installer just tells me its already installed and no option is available for a repair-install, or simple re-install is available. this starts to tick me off, and the only option the rep has is to completely uninstall all autodesk software, settings, and even registry entries.
i scoff at this and ask the guy if he's serious, i have cad 08, and 10 installed, each with extensive customizations, and i dont really want to go through all the hassle of customization/plugin/script backup re-install of both those and max10.
this is the point in my day (well past lunchtime at this point) that i'm really frustrated and seriously wondering if i need anger management classes...
well, its a day later now and ive gotten all the apps re-installed. i *think* max10 is set up the way i had it, i have only opened it once to see if those autosave files will load or merge ~ nope they still dont.
spent all AM today integrating all my scipts/plugins, hotkeys and UI configs into '12 figuring there's no reason now that its installed to not start using it.
THEN as i try to open the files in '12, nope still no luck. just have to re-do all the changes. i accept this fate as i'm more pissed about all the trouble so-far than i ever was about re-doing an hours worth of changes. i start in and instantly remember WHY i didnt use '12. i cant stand the "caddies" and i'm also more fond of the older style material editor and other UI changes... so i spend 3 MORE hours finding scripts and hacks to revert those.
aaaaaaaanyway, long story short: i'm rather disinclined to do any modeling any time soon. updates next week,
funny story, son wants a better computer and is going to inherit this almost new one and i get to re-build and re-install all over again next week. hahaha
tiny progress on the TIE, built the lower hatch and a few more greebles. TF_4.2_0a4.jpgTF_4.2_0a5.jpg
just need to finish a couple more greebles and the top hatch, then i can move on to the arms and wings. there's sooooo many greebles on the wings, and the interceptor wings have even MORE... gonna be fun though!
Whoa, nice! I didn't realize the ships were that big either, except of course I knew the Mothership was huge. I love the Homeworld games...am still sad that they probably won't make a HW3. Are you gonna mess with teh models at all? Detail one out?
Anyone around here into KSP?
been adapting some trek nacelles into engines:
the Excelsior and Voyager textures are thanks to Cpt. Kippard over at the kerbal forum.
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Me too. I was ten years old when it came out and I got to go see it in the theater.
one last pic for the day, ended up doing normal scribing. a quick test to see if they're deep enough to even see on the black skin (barely, gonna go a lil deeper).
turned on the armament too :devil:
BW_3.2-005.jpg
i cant find the thread anywhere at the moment, reverse image searches arent finding anything but more "look at this! posts"; but there's a guy who built one at 1/8 scale (i think) as a turbine powered R/C. and he said he was surprised at how stable it flew!
By76379.jpe
BW_3.2-007.jpg
PH-2.0_002.jpg
PH-2.0_003.jpgPH-2.0_004.jpg
cockpit instruments/controls, and rear landing gear is all thats left. i'm going to spend a week or two on the Phoenix though :devil:
BW_3.2-009.jpg
PH-2.0_008.jpgPH-2.0_007.jpgPH-2.0_009.jpg
PH-2.1_001.jpgPH-2.1_002.jpg
PH-2.1_0a1.jpg
and finished the nacelles
PH-2.1_0a3.jpg
TF_4.2_003.jpg
on the upside though, i still had my notes and kit list on the greebles so i didnt have to find any references and could just get right into re-creating them
well, i look in the project folder and the most recent hard save was at 3:11pm. the .bak was at the same time. the autosaves were 3:48, 3:51, and 4:02 (outage was at 4:05)
i thought all these timestamps were extremely odd btw. autosave settings were 3 files at 5m interval...
well, the hardsave was fine, i thought i had interval-saved past then because there were a LOT of changes since then. so i go into the autosaves. most recent (4:02) all the data is there, it just WONT LOAD. no errors or anything, and not corrupted...
so i dig into the 3:51. same deal. getting a little frustrated at this point.
now i try the 3:48 file. just fine, except: all the data is exactly identical to my 3:11 hardsave.
at this point i shut down MAX and fire off an email to Autodesk CS, and start looking online for file recovery or auditing software while i wait for a response. the various forum hits i find in google arent promising, and ****-out-of-luck are what i expect for the files and my eventual response from Autodesk.
when i do get a response the rep notices i have a 2012 license too and asks if i can open the files in '12.
i had forgotten just WHY i decided to uninstal '12 and go back to 10, but i figured its worth a try and i'd re-install.
turns out every time i try, the installer just tells me its already installed and no option is available for a repair-install, or simple re-install is available. this starts to tick me off, and the only option the rep has is to completely uninstall all autodesk software, settings, and even registry entries.
i scoff at this and ask the guy if he's serious, i have cad 08, and 10 installed, each with extensive customizations, and i dont really want to go through all the hassle of customization/plugin/script backup re-install of both those and max10.
this is the point in my day (well past lunchtime at this point) that i'm really frustrated and seriously wondering if i need anger management classes...
well, its a day later now and ive gotten all the apps re-installed. i *think* max10 is set up the way i had it, i have only opened it once to see if those autosave files will load or merge ~ nope they still dont.
spent all AM today integrating all my scipts/plugins, hotkeys and UI configs into '12 figuring there's no reason now that its installed to not start using it.
THEN as i try to open the files in '12, nope still no luck. just have to re-do all the changes. i accept this fate as i'm more pissed about all the trouble so-far than i ever was about re-doing an hours worth of changes. i start in and instantly remember WHY i didnt use '12. i cant stand the "caddies" and i'm also more fond of the older style material editor and other UI changes... so i spend 3 MORE hours finding scripts and hacks to revert those.
aaaaaaaanyway, long story short: i'm rather disinclined to do any modeling any time soon. updates next week,
maybe...
the frustrating part is that i wasted a day and a half because i wanted to save and hours worth of time... LOL
tiny progress on the TIE, built the lower hatch and a few more greebles.
TF_4.2_0a4.jpgTF_4.2_0a5.jpg
just need to finish a couple more greebles and the top hatch, then i can move on to the arms and wings. there's sooooo many greebles on the wings, and the interceptor wings have even MORE... gonna be fun though!
fyi its a big pic.
Fleets003.jpg
hmm, cant post em that big i guess, it shrunk it
edit: wow didnt ever pay attention to just how big some of these are...
inserted the Enterprise and dry-dock to add scale.
2.4.jpg
after a little closer inspection i had to scale down the HW1 fleet a bit, and scale up the HW2 fleet even more!
2.6.jpg
Various Work: U.S.S. Constellation - Matt Jefferies Concept Shuttle
been adapting some trek nacelles into engines:
the Excelsior and Voyager textures are thanks to Cpt. Kippard over at the kerbal forum.
a couple effect tests of them in-game: