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Look at my little glowing son. And I've started working on the top of the saucer. (And I've also started cutting in the little window alcoves on the lower saucer but that's boring so I won't render that yet)

Starship wrote: »

Great start on a difficult shape!

Thanks!

Decided to work on a bit of nacelle self-illumination. Because why not.

Ael's wrote: »

As the first one to comment I have the pleasure to say that it's a Beauty considering how early in the modelling it is.
I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on this thread.

Thank you!! That's really kind. I appreciate it.

count23 wrote: »

excellent start, if you hop on the SFM discord, we can give you heaps of references for the studio models and some advice how to tackle the trickier parts.

Thanks, I'll definitely do that, because I'm completely making it up as I go along

Starkiller wrote: »

Hmmm. I'm trying to learn Blender myself. I should give his tutorial a try.
REALLY nice job on her BTW.

Thanks. And yes! The whole playlist is here - Eric is such a good teacher.

Update. Still a very long way to go.

Yeah, true. I've made the windows and running lights differently to Eric so that's not a huge problem but there isn't really a workaround for the Bussards. I might have to make 2 different versions - a "good" one and an "eevee" one. Not sure yet.

Finished most of the modelling on the Shuttlebay and the Pylons. Still loads to do but it actually looks like the Enterprise now!

scifieric wrote: »

Yep, When I learn this new version of Blender, I'll make more tutorials.

Oh, and the different lighting shot? Superb!

Hooray!! And thanks. Small update at the moment, working on the bum of the ship. Cut the lights into the engineering hull, currently working on the shuttlebay. Ignore the flat as hell lighting, just trying to see all the details.

Just wanted to do a quick render using Eevee as well, and it renders in about 2 seconds, which is spectacular considering how many Polys this thing is already. Obviously it loses a lot of the realism but for animations this is brilliant.

Finished my Enterprise E yesterday, needed to give her something to shoot at so I made this rather rudimentary Borg Cube today. Pretty flipping happy with the results!

Your work is just stunning. I'm trying to build this ship in Blender at the moment and your model is absolutely inspiring

P5ych0p4th wrote: »

They pretty much all are. The stuff Alan Sinclair did. or actual orthographic renders were pretty much the only things I ever used, that were actually in alignment. 🤷🏻‍♂️

How can we convince Alan Sinclair to draw literally every ship?