Battlestar Skinfaxi

[fongsaunder]

Great job, that armor plate reminds me of the TOS for some reason 9I dunno why)

[Nop]

Great, I really like this model. It's good to see a battlestar that looks heavily armored and survivable (instead of plastered with obvious kill-me-here locations). Also lookes very well thought through and workable.

[tan.j]

newman, Aresius and Infinity238,

Thank you for quick and/or useful responses.
Yeah, I understood the situation and will update size comparisons in a few days.

Originally Posted by A_Pickle

I'm kind of a n00b at making good, detailed, crazy-awesome 3D ships... so I've got some questions that pop into my head from time to time.
As of now, I'm wondering... how long did those images take to render, and on what hardware/software?...

It took about 1 hour to render (with middle level anti-aliasing and radiosity on) the first image of this thread.
Software: LightWave3D 8.2 on WindowsXP
PC: Pentium4 3GHz, 768MB mem. (made 4 years ago...)

Originally Posted by Lonewriter

you know how much I like it. The only thing I'm not fond of is the name. Otherwise, it's great...

It's always difficult to decide a name of a original vessel...in this time, I wanted to give some strange and unused name to her.

Originally Posted by Jacob Collstrup

...Many times I might think that that particular model is not my style, or I just plain don't like the concept of the design. But what ALWAYS impresses me is these pictures...it ALWAYS looks like you can just grap the model off the screen!! Particularly this one. It looks like a little plastic model you can just grab and start painting!! Its SO awesome!! And I like the model too in this case!
Jacob

Originally Posted by fongsaunder

Great job, that armor plate reminds me of the TOS for some reason 9I dunno why)

Originally Posted by Nop

Great, I really like this model. It's good to see a battlestar that looks heavily armored and survivable (instead of plastered with obvious kill-me-here locations). Also lookes very well thought through and workable.

Thank you for encouradging comments. I wanted to design heavily armored vessel which had functional and kinda funny appearance. I feel that she may not be bad...
btw, I also remember TOS GALACTICA in an early stage of her modeling...

[today]

Originally Posted by tan.j

Thanks all!
Dimensions of Skinfaxi were defined based on Valkyrie, whose length was assumed about 1200m. As shown in the attached image, dimensions of front part are quite similar to Valk. Cannons were copied from my GALACTICA's mesh. Their sizes were estimated from GALACTICA's image by ZOIC, but it may be somewhat small...?

Never realized you did a Galactica too.. any chance of a higher res render of her? Assuming one doesn't already exist in one of your other threads?

And if you have a chance, maybe another side by side of your armored and unarmored Skinfaxi, in ... oh I don't know, 1440 x 900, not that I'm fishing for a new wallpaper or anything

[fongsaunder]

Funny appearance, more like, FUNKY. At first from teh little thumb pic, I seriously though it looked like the Defender-class or variant threof.

[Starship]

It's a nice Battlestar, but the name is really strange. Can I suggest Drusus or Ganymed as alternatives?
I have all of your other ships, cause they are simply great. I'll have to find a time and convert them for 3DS Max. All that I need is to kill my backlog.

[Aresius]

What's so strange with it?
Skinfaxi was the horse of Dagr (Day) in the norse mythology. Wouldn't be any different if you now name it by greek mythology.

[tan.j]

I updated size comparisons...Valk is a pocket battlestar indeed.

Originally Posted by today

Never realized you did a Galactica too.. any chance of a higher res render of her? Assuming one doesn't already exist in one of your other threads?
And if you have a chance, maybe another side by side of your armored and unarmored Skinfaxi, in ... oh I don't know, 1440 x 900, not that I'm fishing for a new wallpaper or anything

My Galactica's images are only those shown in the gallery on this site. It is unfinished work, structures on the bottom side are not modeled yet.
I added rendering Skinfaxi in 1440 x 900 pix.? to my to-do list, but more progress is needed at first.

Originally Posted by fongsaunder

Funny appearance, more like, FUNKY. At first from teh little thumb pic, I seriously though it looked like the Defender-class or variant threof.

FUNKY...sounds good Yeah, though I found that her design resembles backstept's works a little in a early stage of her modeling, I guessed it need not be changed.
btw, height/length ratio of her flight pods was defined based on your Euqinom's, I feel they has well-balaced shape.

Originally Posted by Starship

It's a nice Battlestar, but the name is really strange. Can I suggest Drusus or Ganymed as alternatives?
I have all of your other ships, cause they are simply great. I'll have to find a time and convert them for 3DS Max. ...

Thanks and have fun with my BSs . Though I firstly hesitated to name her "Skinfaxi", now I like very much, especially its sound.

Originally Posted by Aresius

What's so strange with it?
Skinfaxi was the horse of Dagr (Day) in the norse mythology. Wouldn't be any different if you now name it by greek mythology.

Thanks Aresius, I also think so. I hope that I would be able to give beautiful appearance suitable for her name to her.

[Aresius]

Nice so far. The plating needs a bit more details, but the hull does already look very nice.

[Darkone]

Love the scalineing you've done in regards to your ship!