ZardoZ's Shipyard

[Redeyes]

Originally Posted by Zardoz

I recibe some sugestions of put the warp nacels in a upward position, but in a low angle position. I thnik that is a bad idea, because i need to make too long the wings to place the warp nacels in a logic postion. Do you think ?

I agree. It's always seemed to me they belonged below the saucer, unless you want to land the thing of course.

[Zardoz]

I was working wich the grid lines over the secundary hull.. It's nearly finished the secundary hull ... only small details, like pahser banks and windows. Im, thniking of adding some grid lines in the warp enginering room and in the bottom curved cut.

[Basajaun]

Ey, it looks cool without the saucer section!

[Chanur]

Ah, better and better. I like the low-nacelle solution. keep up your good work!

[Zardoz]

I was a bit stoped this last days becasue i begin to work this Thursday (haha.. i will update my CPU & Mother board wich the drop of CPU prices wich Conroe arrive), and my 3d max 6 was begin to doing a strange bug that is increasing his frecuency. When im working wich the ship (mainly wich the secundary hull or all ship) the 3d max crash... lucky, the files are safe (and i do a lot of backups!), but now i cant doing any thing wichout my 3d max crash (i can open the files, but when i render the all ship or rotate the view... crash). Im trying to discover why do it .... perhaps i will copy the files to my brother computer wich a clean install of 3d max and continue on it....

There are two images.... one is a proto-msd of the ship , wich the decks ... there i see that the primary hull (were are the crew quarters) is too small. so i modificate the suacer shape to add a deck, and mach better the decks height, that we can see the in the second image. I redoing the rectangular section over the saucer and the impulse engine room section.


I cant update th proto-msd becasue the problem that i said before.



I create a photoblog in imageshack to show all images of the cration and evolution of the ship...

ImageShack® - Zardoz's PhotoBlog

[Zardoz]

Ok two more interesting and better images (one is a enanced version of the msd...

[Zardoz]

I do other 2d image of where i will place the windows over the secundary and saucer hulls.... and i put a idea of hull marking ...



These symbol is a mixture of the arrowed star that i see in a lot of non-canon pre-tos ship and the yellow bumeragn over bars of the TOS Constitution.

[Zardoz]

I was doing today morething ... i was working in the nacels (adding details, paneling and a small changes...) and addign the last grid lines in the secudnary hull and preparing to make the windows in the secundary hull.

[Zardoz]

Ok... now i think that i finish to modeling the nacel (i redoing the intercoler, and add a small details in the bottom coils. Now the only thing that im reusing of the my early works in TOS ships is theframe were are put the upper coils)... only keeps to finish of apply materials and texturing.... I apply the decal wich the NCC-1201 number of the YorkTown.



I waste a bit of my time tryingto create a TTF wich a very fideligne font of the TOS Hull text, based over a bitmaps thati get some time ago, that are the most fideligne that i see of these font (there free TTF font of TOS hull font, but have big diferences in special wich the numbers)

[Zardoz]

I advanced much today .... Im prepraing to texturing the ship (i only need to do a smallchanges i nteh secundary hull, and discover why doing soem artifact in the front of the cross section overthe saucer (these longthing over the saucer that youshould rember a bit to Galactica :P )

Well there is the images :




Now the windows only are a poly of the hull, wich a white 100% iluminated texture that ina future i will extrude to do some depth, and later i will remobe the white polys, to see a more profesional windows wich see of some interiors , but before we must (the STO team) a very good idea of how are the interiors and were is palce over the ship ( i desing the ship wich a deck template and i cleaver idea of palce some things, like the brdige, the conference room, the Warp reactor enginering and a mess room,andwere will the crew quarters)