Something big

[Eternal_Freedom]

Wooo! Mon Cal cruiser!

[Knife]

Yay, after years of subtle suggestion, I get my wish. Woootini!

[evillejedi]

hmm very curious to see how you handle the paneling we talked about. Which reminds me I never did post any of the work for the Galactic Voyager and Mediator. I eventually gave up and just went with textures

[evillejedi]

(edit fail) Which reminds me, These were the hires model tests from a project a while back that was never finished...

Galactic Voyager (blended together with MC90 base hull, but extended and highly modified befitting a Mon Cal)

http://imageshack.us/a/img163/5760/kcz2.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img809/4809/z0v0.png

Mediator WIP
http://imageshack.us/a/img836/4133/yk0.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img839/2584/poth.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img189/4581/8fzv.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img822/6274/tvy0.png

and the older version of my MC90, obviously differing opinions on how many thruster nozzles are implied in the water colors :-p
http://warlords.swrebellion.com/g2/main ... alNumber=2
http://warlords.swrebellion.com/g2/main ... alNumber=2

[fractalsponge1]

hmm very curious to see how you handle the paneling we talked about. Which reminds me I never did post any of the work for the Galactic Voyager and Mediator. I eventually gave up and just went with textures

Same method as with anything else, just with more care positioning the patterns for boolean.

The Mediator and MC80 variant look super cool - it's a shame that project fell through.

On to the MC90:

Not nearly as much effort at cleanup required as I thought there would be, but the throughput is definitely much worse than with an angular hull. This is with a base panel layer, a secondary panel layer, and a layer of simple box details, with some surface greebles to break up the monotony:



The big gun blisters are still unfinished - I think they will probably acquire their own custom panel pattern. They have one semi-recessed ball turret for a single heavy turbolaser of the same size as a Venator's main gun. I figure about 30-40 of these. The small gun blisters are also not done for detail, but they have 2 recessed single medium guns. The ship I'm scaling to around 1500m, because the 1200m figure can go away and die :p. If this is an ISD peer ship, it damn well will have the volume for it.

[fractalsponge1]

Blisters are detailed now.

[Knife]

Cool. How many sizes you got going on those 'blisters'? Looks like you have 'structural' blisters, then about 3 sizes of sub-blisters with weapons mounts?

[Crossroads Inc.]

I have to take my hat off for you Fractal, a lot of people have attempted to rationalize just what the hell "Weapon Blisters" are, and seeing the turrets, well I have to say so far yours make the most sense.

Really I am still stunned you are attempting one of the Pickle ships, I remember you posting ages ago about hating the bloody things cause of all the curves and roundy bits

[Nomada_Firefox]

I´m curious Evillejedi about the Mediator, probably I did not understand it very well but I think that you finished the model.




If you ask about the size, I do not accept the idea which it makes it as the half from a Viscount and yes if you are thinking it, this Viscount was not made by Warb_Null, his model is probably better, I made it starting with one Home One from you. Of course the skin is from Nawrocki.

Speaking from the MC90 or Defiance. JM, a modder from the Xwing Alliance game made one very good model.

And this is other design from you Evillejedi which I like a lot. You made it probably as the Viscount but I use it as a MC90 and I name to your MC90 as B. In fact I use three type of MC90 and more from the same starships with different skins. I know how you started one modified version from it, I would like see it one day.

I like it.


Perhaps more offtopic are these two designs, the MC104 from JM and the MC112/108 from Rebel with a few changes from me.

[evillejedi]

I went back to make a high resolution version, same with the viscount. The original model was very basic.

The nice thing with the MC90 is that since it is a production line ship from the New Republic, we can cheat and say it is symmetrical and has standard warship components on it. Putting thrusters, comm systems, weaponry into blister recesses and cutouts works pretty well and adds a lot of needed detail to the large surfaces. A lot of the blisters can then be repeated and standardized in size. I think my galactic voyager only have 9 component blister types.

One idea I still love for the blisters is that they clamshell open, slide back or otherwise transform and reveal banks of normal boxy quad turbolasers. Completely impractical, but the though of a space pickle turning into a spiky pickle of death with a deployment sequence is appealing. Part of this idea came from a thought of the imperial weapons embargoes, it would be easier to get lots of smaller older turbolasers from older ships and retrofit them into concealed housings and slave them together than to try to acquire larger weapons. The other option to allow good firing angles is to treat the blisters as small composite turbolasers like the LAAT canons and have arrays of emitter dishes on the tops of the larger gunnery blisters.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Hey everybody!
Ok this may seem a bit random... but does anyone know the full count of big Anti ship Turrets on the Assertor Star Dreadnaught?
just something I am trying to use as a reference for turrets vs ship sizes...

[Crossroads Inc.]

AHA! Found it on my own

Ok, i just had some time so i counted the guns of the Assertor. took me an hour so i hope i didn't miscount. i tried to count the smaller guns as well. in the end i received the number 1283!!! for comparison, the Bellator has 179 guns!

In terms of gun barrels, we're talking close to 5000, none of them smaller than the ISDII's 64 main guns, spread over a thousand turrets. Bellator would have almost 800, also, none of them smaller than the ISDII's main guns. I can dig up the complete breakdown if people are interested. According to some orthos, size-comparisons and given numbers posted earlier in this thread i calculated some figures for this ships. figures for the Allegiance: 2250 x 1400 x 630 meters. for the Assertor: 15000 meters length given by Ansel, 7700 meters wide and 2350 meters high. for the Bellator: 7200 x 2660 x 1005 meters.

That is a HELL Of a lot of Guns

[Pelranius]

What's the internal volume for the Assertor vis a vis the Viscount?

I got respective figures of 94 km3 and 12.7 km3 using very, very rough calculations.

[fractalsponge1]

Sorry I've been awol. Work is busy. Proper responses later.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Good to see you back again Fractal!
Interesting spaceship. Looks almost... Star treky

[Eleas]

Looks like the X-70B-Phantom from The Old Republic.

[fractalsponge1]

Yep, it's an x70-b from The Old Republic MMO. These things are supposed to be barely light corvette sized (~80m), but deploy more like long range starfighters/personal transports rather than anything approaching a capital ship.

This is my slightly impure take on the original, possibly slightly classic wars modified in details, so it won't be exactly what's in the game. It is, perhaps, the prettiest ship I've seen in the SW canon.

Here's where it is after today (updates will follow as I have time):

[FTeik]

I would have thought it to be one of the shuttles Mara Jade used to fly around with - or maybe Lando Calrissian's "Lady Luck".

But it is nice to see, that you do civilian vessels, too.

[Ekiqa]

Any thoughts about www.shapeways.com ? It's a 3D printing company, that allows you to set up a 'shop' to sell your models. Those of us who've been salivating over some of your 3D models could then purchase small, physical, versions.

[Skywalker_T-65]

Admittedly the x70 looks sorta like a fighter more than a light corvette, but I do love the design. Nice to see something that is curved, but doesn't bring to mind a Mon-Cal design.

[Lord Revan]

Admittedly the x70 looks sorta like a fighter more than a light corvette, but I do love the design. Nice to see something that is curved, but doesn't bring to mind a Mon-Cal design.

then it's suppose to be "disguised" as a luxury craft of some sort, think of a SW equilevant of a speedboat or an expensive sports car.

[darthscott]

Any thoughts about http://www.shapeways.com ? It's a 3D printing company, that allows you to set up a 'shop' to sell your models. Those of us who've been salivating over some of your 3D models could then purchase small, physical, versions.

That would be incredible. I would be first in line.

This guy has made an excellent attempt at it:

http://the-white-tiger.deviantart.com/a ... -415288727

[Ekiqa]

Any thoughts about http://www.shapeways.com ? It's a 3D printing company, that allows you to set up a 'shop' to sell your models. Those of us who've been salivating over some of your 3D models could then purchase small, physical, versions.

That would be incredible. I would be first in line.

This guy has made an excellent attempt at it:

http://the-white-tiger.deviantart.com/a ... -415288727

I would love a little customs corvette, and the walkers would be pretty cool.

[Abacus]

Don't know if any of you guys have seen this before, but I felt like I should share. It got my creative writing juices flowing and I figure it might do something similar to those that need a little bit of Star Wars inspiration.

HERE IT IS.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Well that was pretty damned awesome.