Calling all Stargate Fans!

[scorpius]

Originally Posted by Choo1701

hehe. Puppet Stargate

anyway. nice idea with the dropship..ship. only suggestion: how about instead of rear ramps at the back, have them at the sides. so they don;t get in the way of the ships engines. Would be a messy situation, especially if the ship needed to make a quick getaway...

lol, spot on. Well I've always been a fan of the show in general but especially the way they made the special effects. They were one of the first (possibly the first, not 100% sure) to use the "used future" style of effects, much like Star Wars did, making everything look futuristic but at the same time like it was actually used. The way they filmed things like explosions at high speed then slowing it down when viewing made them look so much more realistic, not to mention their use of miniatures paved the way for many special effects in future movies and tv programmes. Anyway, enough of me singing their praises lol.

choo, I would have a ramp at the sides but the outer hangar was going to be for other craft, airborne probably. That said, I've toyed with the idea of turning the ship into a complete mobile command centre for ground based attacks and having certain sections open up. I could split the outer wall of the pod where the hangar would end and the engines begin, with the top moving up and the bottom lowering to become a ramp (don't think that makes any sense whatsoever, will try to do something to show what I mean).

For the moment, I've attached a crappy animation to show what I've done with the hyperdrive spires so far. I'll do something more imaginative with the sections and the base so they're not so boring, but just to show the basic movements.

And tolbert, look forward to any new designs you come up with.

[Bar]

Now THAT is freaking cool!!!!

I love it!!!
I even love the way the flat deck slides inwards!!!
Good work with that!
Bar.

[scorpius]

wow, you been smokin or snortin something bar? lol, glad you like it.

Now THAT, was a ****ty way to spend an evening. It's now 2:15am and I'm sat here after having to perform an emergency transplant of hard drives. For some reason while I was working at about 10:30 my computer decided to lock up. No real surprise there, this is Windows after all and I had 2 copies of max running, photoshop, media player and god knows what else at the time. I couldnt get anything to close properly, ctrl+alt+del proved highly unhelpful so I had to do a hard reset. Trying to boot into windows was impossible for no apparent reason and I couldn't access the drive to try a windows repair. Now, after having installed Windows on one of my other hard drives I can now access the original one perfectly as if nothing went f**king wrong! I hate computers sometimes. Thankfully I actually used MozBackup to backup my Firefox and Thunderbird (I'm a big fan of all things thunderbird lol) profiles yesterday so no bookmark hunting or e-mail loss to contend with. I guess it's a blessing in disguise really as I recently had a whole ton of adware and spyware on here which I think I got rid of but the effects were still evident so this has forced me into starting afresh anyway.

Anywho, enough of my tired ramblings. Will hopefully post tomorrow with more updates on the Valkyrie or the carrier or the Icarus or the Ares or anything else I decide to do tomorrow. By the way, does anybody have any decent references for the clone turbo tank from star wars episode 3? For those who don't know what I'm on about, it's the huge 10-wheeled behemoth of a vehicle the clone troopers used on Kashyyyk in the film. I don't intend on copying it entirely but I'd like to get some decent shots of it and design something based off of it.

[RJB]

Choo1701 and tadz - I love the design and a great job modeling it and bring the drawing to life.

Tolbert - Very sleek looking ship.

scorpius - Again another ship that I love the design too and the animation was very cool.

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Well it's been awhile since I last posted so time for a new ship and pictures.

I decided to work on a smaller ship due to a lack of free time, being in the middle of a heatwave and now having a member of my family pass away. (can't get much worse than things have been.)

Well my new ship will be called the USAF Tempest and well be about 200m long and fill the role of an escort.

(Note: The little pink thing is a little guy.)
Top/Front

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6...ip1a001ix5.jpg

Top/Back

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1...ip1b001xn2.jpg

Bottom

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1...ip1c001pl7.jpg

Sized with my Deadalus

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/2...rt1a001he3.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1...rt1b001ae3.jpg

[tadz]

Originally Posted by RJB

Choo1701 and tadz - I love the design and a great job modeling it and bring the drawing to life.

sorry i have to add Scootes (Jesh)... and thanks

[Choo1701]

Originally Posted by RJB

Choo1701 and tadz - I love the design and a great job modeling it and bring the drawing to life.

hey! whoa there partner. can't take all the credit.

Scootes built the basic mesh, i'm just brainfarting all over it, so kudos to him too (yeah...sorry 'bout the smell )

EDIT: um....Jinx tadz?

and good to have you back RJB Like the tempest, very original design looks really heavily armoured. And the engines are very awesome.
Keep up the good work mate

and scorpius: how about some pods on the new ship that it can drop off to help its troops. Or is that too thunderbird like?

[Bar]

Originally Posted by scorpius

By the way, does anybody have any decent references for the clone turbo tank from star wars episode 3? For those who don't know what I'm on about, it's the huge 10-wheeled behemoth of a vehicle the clone troopers used on Kashyyyk in the film. I don't intend on copying it entirely but I'd like to get some decent shots of it and design something based off of it.

Do you want screen-caps, or just images from different angles?
I have the Chronicles. It has orthos in it.
If it's just general shape, then there's a page about the vehicle on the SW.com site.
Bar.

[scorpius]

Originally Posted by Bar

Do you want screen-caps, or just images from different angles?
I have the Chronicles. It has orthos in it.
If it's just general shape, then there's a page about the vehicle on the SW.com site.
Bar.

I have been on there and nabbed the image but anything else you have would be greatly appreciated. I've got the DVD but I'm too lazy to make my own screencaps if someone already has some lol.

Originally Posted by Choo1701

scorpius: how about some pods on the new ship that it can drop off to help its troops. Or is that too thunderbird like?

Can anything really be too thunderbird like?? lol. That's something I hadn't thought of but I'll certainly have a play about with it and see if I can come up with anything decent. Cheers for that. Maybe the ship can land, then rais up on struts leaving the pod on the ground...if required it can drop it from a height on water as well lol. See now I'm so gonna have to paint this thing green with a bigass 2 on the side

Originally Posted by RJB

Well my new ship will be called the USAF Tempest and well be about 200m long and fill the role of an escort.

Sorry to hear about your relative RJB, it's very rarely good news for something like that to happen.

Love the new ship, the rear is very ancienty (don't look at me like that, it's a word...just like thunderbirdsy is ), and quite clearly I'm a huge fan of hybrid designs so certainly gets a from me. By the way, how near completion of your Daedalus are you now?

[tadz]

lol My friends asked me to try draw a hybrid ship with all races of the series in it... besides wraith( it is ****ing hard to try) and it didn't turn out to good. But if anyone here whats to have a shot go ahead lol

ok 2 things Severus new tag is "CFS-305 Severus-07" CFS = Capital Flag Ship, and how much has my spelling/ punctuation improved?

[RJB]

Originally Posted by Choo1701

hey! whoa there partner. can't take all the credit.

Scootes built the basic mesh, i'm just brainfarting all over it, so kudos to him too (yeah...sorry 'bout the smell )

EDIT: um....Jinx tadz?

and good to have you back RJB Like the tempest, very original design looks really heavily armoured. And the engines are very awesome.
Keep up the good work mate

Sorry Scootes that I missed you but as I said great ship.

Thank you and thats only the opening for the engines, I still have to model what goes inside.

Originally Posted by scorpius

Sorry to hear about your relative RJB, it's very rarely good news for something like that to happen.

Love the new ship, the rear is very ancienty (don't look at me like that, it's a word...just like thunderbirdsy is ), and quite clearly I'm a huge fan of hybrid designs so certainly gets a from me. By the way, how near completion of your Daedalus are you now?

Well in a way it was good new since the alternative would have been a longer and far more painfully death over 1-5 years and I would rather see a family member pass faster than have to surfer over a long period of time.

Thank you and maybe the word "ancienty" will catch on.
As for my Daedalus, the modeling is still at about 75-80% but it's been too hot to work on anything more than 30 minute to an hour. Anything more than that and I'm soaked with sweat.