metamoth

Not much chance to model this week and stuck testing options for the secondary hull. So instead did a quick sketch over this evening.



Find this a really quick way to test ideas and work through geometry issues that would normally take me ages within blender. Best thing is I can upload the sketch into camera view in blender to use as a guide when modelling.

Back from the dead!!

I posted at the start of this year about finally completing something with my B5 models but Picard S3 has drawn me back to this. This project has gone through many different iterations over the year and at times have got stuck in a cycle of rumination and not being able to commit to a form due to having the luxury of time and no pressure of an impending deadline. But over the last month things have got moving again and I'm really happy with how the blocked out form has settled.

I haven't committed to a time period, instead just had fun with how I imagine the aesthetic of a time period between TNG/Picard and the 32nd Century shown in Disco would look. Think of the jump in design language between TMP and TNG.
I wanted to take design cues from ships that would hint and what is to come and what came before (e.g. the 'horseshoe' collar on the saucer rim inspired by the Saturn Class, split nacelle of the Ent-J and the cobra neck smooth transition from the saucer to the secondary hull from the Ent-D).

Next up is to work on the saucer/bridge spine and the knit the model into one piece before locking it down to detail.









Enjoy

For the omega I've found plans and othos of the original models which I'm using for blocking and dimensions which will be show accurate but yeah, adding in more detail while trying not overload it and lose the charm of the original.
Want to make it look less 'solid' and more like a series of modules bolted together and wrapped in armour if that makes sense.

I think it's time that B5 was shown some love on these forums (I have posted a few times previously with my Thunderbolt model).

I have a library/graveyard of models and a very bad habit of starting a model and never finishing so I told myself that by the end of this year I want to finish at least one of these models. Some might be easier to start from scratch due to their age and my modelling skill at the time but I think I'm going to start with the Omega as it's one of my all time favourite ship designs.

japetus wrote: »

Dunno if you saw...they have a sketchfab model in their page https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/homeworld-3-interceptor-c2df2416d6544b29a30b040e613a9b5f I assume it's not the game friendly version judging by that topology

Yeah, that's the one I've been working with as well as screen caps from the trailer. Making slow but steady progress with I have free time, axfew boolean issues in the render but I can sort that out down the line.