SeanP

Thank everyone!
Yes - still need to add RCS thrusters so she can maneuver in space.
I'm not going to add too many more details though.
I built this to go on my book covers along with my dreadnought and battle carrier which will be the main center pieces on the covers.
The fighters will be fairly small on the covers so the small details won't even show.
We'll see when the covers are laid out.
I'm currently working on finishing the second generation of battle cruiser and one of the main alien enemy vessels.
The alien ship will be the shape of a giant mechanized angel fish and hopefully it will have a presence like a Minbari warship from Babylon 5.
I'm working on the ships when I take breaks from writing.
I had 3 books published on Amazon, but I wasn't overly happy with them.
I read several books on how to improve my writing and of course like most people I learn as I go, so I pulled them off Amazon to rewrite them.
Book 1 is rewritten, I'm working on book 2, and then I'll rewrite book 3.
Book 4 is all finished and book 5 is being plotted.

I've been an IT person for the last 30 years, lost my job because of COVID-19 and because the Canadian government killed our oilfield here in Alberta.
I was really tired of the IT stuff, and working for other people, so I decided to make my new career science fiction and do my own thing.

I haven't posted anything or even visited these forums in quite a while. I just finished my fourth book and I am currently rewriting my first three books to improve them and apply what I have learned since writing them. As part of the rewrites I am working on new covers as well. To that end I created two new ships in 3D over the past few weeks. The original battle carrier is 1.5 miles long. The second generation battle carrier is twice the size at 3.0 miles long. The dreadnaught is 4.5 miles long. One thing I learned from making the original covers is don't overdo the detail on the 3D ships because it just doesn't show up. All it does is greatly increase the time it takes to render the final image. Here are a few images of the old and new ships together for comparison, without any special lighting, special effects, texture maps, or environment.