Back at it....
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Back at it....
So I have not done anything interesting in a while and after watching nBSG I decided to make a battlestar. This is the preliminary design. Critique away>>>>
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She's incredibly skinny in the waist, but other than that she seems like a pretty decent ish battlestar.
Pre-pegasus but post Galactica I assume? She looks older.
Pre-pegasus but post Galactica I assume? She looks older.
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Rear seems a bit bare, but otherwise, it looks great. Never properly seen either BSG (youtube clips and gifs only), but frankly, I think it looks better than the battlestars in the show.
Looking forward to seeing how it develops.
Looking forward to seeing how it develops.
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After many episodes of Farscape I have completed the basic geometry and many of the exterior details:
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I take back any doubts I had, because damn son, she's purty...
Great details. Have you given thought to backstory or statistics?
Great details. Have you given thought to backstory or statistics?
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It is called Battlestar Nemesis. The Valkyries were pretty old designs and I wanted a new midsize ship. It is ~1000m long, so only about 3-4 the size of Galactica. Simultaneous launch of 24 vipers per hangar pod so 48 total, around 150 vipers. I figured that Pegasus used it's main gun ports on the front often enough that I installed 2 experimental MAC weapons up front. From the fluff i've read the KEW's the colonials use are conventional and not MACs.
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She's barely even a third the length Galactica is 1500 metres.Grahf: Seeker Of Power wrote:It is called Battlestar Nemesis. The Valkyries were pretty old designs and I wanted a new midsize ship. It is ~1000m long, so only about 3-4 the size of Galactica.
Ah, so it's something of a predecessor to the Pegasus class?I figured that Pegasus used it's main gun ports on the front often enough that I installed 2 experimental MAC weapons up front.
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Nice ship and nice clay renderings.
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Other than adding in point defense turrets it is pretty much finished:
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The landing bay seems awfully close to the engines. That would make for a rough and dangerous landing. Especially combat landings.
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1000m is ~2/3 the size of Galactica's 1500m, which isn't that far off from 3/4, as Grahf estimated.HMS Sophia wrote:She's barely even a third the length Galactica is 1500 metres.Grahf: Seeker Of Power wrote:It is called Battlestar Nemesis. The Valkyries were pretty old designs and I wanted a new midsize ship. It is ~1000m long, so only about 3-4 the size of Galactica.
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I... I have no idea how I managed that one. *Shakes head*Terralthra wrote:1000m is ~2/3 the size of Galactica's 1500m, which isn't that far off from 3/4, as Grahf estimated.HMS Sophia wrote:She's barely even a third the length Galactica is 1500 metres.
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Are you going to texture and shade it or was this a modelling practice?
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I have no idea how to texture or shade. They only reason they are even rendered is because there is a plugin for sketchup that lets your export models to Kerkythea.
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That's a nice render!
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