JetMech,
thank you for the comments. I'll just assume that the rest of the magical ship builders are still in an xmas slumber after the seasons excesses. Despite your scarey pic staring out of the screen at me the "shingles" comment made me laugh properly
and when anyone uses the word "pipeline" in a post i immediately sit up cos thats a "pro" word, matey. What do u do? (not being rude, i hope)
When i started this "project" i didnt have any kind of vision. It has built up organically from that mad weekend of vodka and engine building and ...er.....other illegalness, lets call it. But there was an initial feeling of inside out design, Which i prefer. The original layout didn't float my boat, as it were, which is why ive ended up where i have with this. The designing didnt fit in with the choices i was having to make with respects to the quasi-future technology and stuff my head was coming out with. And i didnt have the constraints of designing to a specific shot or scene. It was more, creating the whole thing. Actually building a ship that might be convincing in a "real" world situation.
But.....well i think i just got taken over with the whole thing. Actually wanting to build it. And, with the mechanicals i have in mind, there would be loads of shots and scenes that this would be good for. Maybe I just got wrapped up with the joy of creation. As opposed to working to a brief which would be very different.
With the structure, I'm hoping that once the holes are filled in it would be realistic, and I will be stubbornly working towards that. I hope that the greebling doesnt look too misclaneous. I try to start with major eqipment and structures and work from there. I cant stand it if i see things that i cant work out how they work. So that is where im going with that. With the panel edges i had the original panel that surrounds the "bridge" and used that to rough in the rest of the shape. So i will be customising that to fit in with the areas they surround. ahhh...sometimes its hard to put in words what i can see in my head. Im sure the rest of you know what i mean.
Indulge me, and if it gets too much then im not scared to scrap it.
I'm.....er......honoured, thats the right word (honored for the yanks here :P) that this has been insprirational for you. I'm sure you can learn me a few things.
3am and the voddy is running out and nothing is on tv
arrrgghhh
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