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A couple of weeks ago I started tackling the Defiant. Although Chris Kuhn build an awesome model, I could not resist building my own.

Some words to the references: I'm using photos of the official physical model and the CGI model that came later to the series. There are some major and minor differencies between both and it's impossible to say which one is more accurate. So I decided to go with the things that I like most of both models.

The main hull is one whole subd mesh.



Took me two days for the grid in the main hull


Greebles and nurnies, I hate them to build. Feels like no progress.





Warp and impulse drives with some inner workings done. I do not like those nurnies inside the nacelle of the studio model as they absolutely make no sense there. So I made some warp coils instead.


Now there are only a few things at the back left to model.

Finally finished a scene recreation that I had in mind for a long time.

My Ournal Spacedock is finally done. It comes with interiors for the main hangar.
Polygon count is 373,000. Sounds not much but the heavy stuff are the textures. As the station’s height is nearly 7 km. they need a lot of details to get the scale. So, there are about 375 megabyte of PNG textures.
All shading and lighting is done in Redshift. The main hangar has a lot of lights, so I baked them into a 16bit EXR light and GI map for faster renders.
There is still a lot to do to get the model exportable, so I’ll take some days to make it downloadable.

The nacelles are coming:

My second render with Japetus nice model.
The V'ger cloud is a very old model by Kevin Riley. I remodeled it but used some of his textures.

Top main mesh ironed out:

I've always been a big fan of Atolm's starship design. So I used Howie Day's ancient model as reference and re-modeled it.
It is available for download on my website.

Thanks to Japetus for providing me his Kronos One I could finish the first shot I had in mind to recreate.
The next one may be something with V'ger.

https://youtu.be/tUN5CouqS-I

Still:

Brandenberg wrote: »

I gotta ask. Where did you get your avatar?

Found it somewhere a long time ago

She is finally done.
Some infos about the model:

- ~435000 polygons
- 355 objects
- 27 MB Ram usage
- 22 materials
- One 6144x6144 texture set (color, specular, roughness, bump, normal)
- One 4096x4096 texture set (color, specular, roughness, bump, normal)
- One 4096x4096 texture set for decals (color, alpha)

I think this is working better.
The not matching seperation cut on the back is already fixed.