Cobra class destroyer - Scifi-Meshes.com

**Mechmaster** · 09-02-2006, 08:48 PM

I'm currently working on a Cobra class destroyer, a light escort vessel from Games Workshop's Battlefleet Gothic game. The gaming miniature I'm using for reference is only 32 millimeters (1¼ inches) long so I'm having to make up all the fine details myself.

I've finished the basic structure and have made a decent start on the detailing but there are still a lot of blank areas to fill. When (if) I get this done I plan on building a number of other ships from the BFG universe but considering the amount of work it requires to detail these ships I think it is going to be a very long term project.

Comments welcomed.

Ozylot · 09-02-2006, 08:56 PM

Cool. ship, has a nice design to it. I like

**Kadaeux** · 09-03-2006, 06:18 AM

Excellent Work Mechmaster, join us in the Warhammer 40'000 team (if you haven't already

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How long before you would say it is ready for texturing?

**Lord Ravensburg** · 09-03-2006, 06:26 AM

nice lookin ship...does justice to the little bugger..

**Mechmaster** · 09-03-2006, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Kadaeux

How long before you would say it is ready for texturing?

I'm already beginning to fiddle with textures a bit as an ocassional change from the detailing work, but how long it will be before I get serious with it I don't know. I haven't even made up my mind what the final colour will be yet.

How long it will take depends to some extent on how many layers of detail I decide to add, I don't have anything like the greeble plugin so I'm doing the detailing manually, piece by piece, with booleans and the knife tool. I'm not a fast worker at the best of times and I've been further slowed by going back and altering some of what I already had built. I decided some of the basic windows were too big so I ran around the house with a tape measure checking on standard sizes and then rebuilt many parts of the ship changing windows from 5x3 metres to 2x1½ metres.

I had the basic stucture for the Cobra built in around 8 hours, for the past three days I've been adding details and I don't think I'm even halfway done yet, I shudder to think how long it will take me to do the bigger ships although I think the lessons I'm learning on the Cobra will stand me in good stead when I do start them.

**Kadaeux** · 09-03-2006, 08:50 PM

Do you think you could upload a copy of the model as it is now mate? It's detailed excellently and the Texturing i can deal with for my project, hell you definately have it looking it's 1.5 kilometre length.

**Mechmaster** · 09-04-2006, 11:22 PM

A couple of close up shots of the central hull area which has been the focus of my detailing work these last couple of days, plus a first test of some textures as I have now narrowed it down to two potential colour schemes that I like.

And after all the time I've been spending on the detailing I couldn't resist taking a brief timeout to try a render with some lighting and a background.

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Originally Posted by Kadaeux

Do you think you could upload a copy of the model as it is now mate?

Have patience my friend, I will upload the model in due time but I am reluctant to circulate a model that I am not happy with and I will need it to at least appear to be finished before that happens.

**Kadaeux** · 09-05-2006, 02:42 AM

Great work matey, I love the blue one with the stripe more, though my own fleet it done in the green/gold and white colours. (Though I used silver instead of white.)

**Lord Ravensburg** · 09-05-2006, 03:05 AM

Very nice work...love the details. makes me feel like finishing that dauntless...

**Mechmaster** · 09-06-2006, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Kadaeux

Great work matey, I love the blue one with the stripe more, though my own fleet it done in the green/gold and white colours. (Though I used silver instead of white.)

I like the green/gold and white colour scheme too but I tend to see it everywhere so I decided to go with something different, I don't play BFG myself, I only bought the miniatures to use as reference for my CG models so I haven't built or painted them and probably never will.

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Originally Posted by Lord Ravensburg

Very nice work...love the details. makes me feel like finishing that dauntless...

The dauntless is on my hit list too, altogether I have -

Apocalypse class battleship
Standard cruiser
Dauntless class light cruiser
Sword class frigate
Cobra class destroyer
Chaos cruiser
Chaos Infidel raider

As I said above, I bought these models purely so I could create CG versions. Should keep me busy for some time to come.

09-02-2006, 08:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ozylot SFM Oracle Total Awards: 2 (more» ...) Realname: Carl Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ont,Canada Age: 26 Posts: 5,708	Cool. ship, has a nice design to it. I like
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09-03-2006, 06:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
Kadaeux Battlefleet Admiral Realname: Kitt Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Age: 24 Posts: 1,912	Excellent Work Mechmaster, join us in the Warhammer 40'000 team (if you haven't already ) How long before you would say it is ready for texturing?
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09-03-2006, 06:26 AM	#4 (permalink)
Lord Ravensburg Completly FUBAR'ed! Total Awards: 1 (more» ...) Realname: Lee Join Date: May 2006 Location: Find the A$$ end of nowhere and i'm just north of it... Age: 28 Posts: 3,239	nice lookin ship...does justice to the little bugger..
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09-03-2006, 08:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
Kadaeux Battlefleet Admiral Realname: Kitt Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Age: 24 Posts: 1,912	Do you think you could upload a copy of the model as it is now mate? It's detailed excellently and the Texturing i can deal with for my project, hell you definately have it looking it's 1.5 kilometre length.
	Reality is like a kick in the balls, you see something you like and WHAM. FIRESTORM My Greeble Project Warhammer 40'000 team., \| Warhammer 40'000 Threads thread. My planet Tutorial

09-05-2006, 02:42 AM	#8 (permalink)
Kadaeux Battlefleet Admiral Realname: Kitt Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Age: 24 Posts: 1,912	Great work matey, I love the blue one with the stripe more, though my own fleet it done in the green/gold and white colours. (Though I used silver instead of white.)
	Reality is like a kick in the balls, you see something you like and WHAM. FIRESTORM My Greeble Project Warhammer 40'000 team., \| Warhammer 40'000 Threads thread. My planet Tutorial

09-05-2006, 03:05 AM	#9 (permalink)
Lord Ravensburg Completly FUBAR'ed! Total Awards: 1 (more» ...) Realname: Lee Join Date: May 2006 Location: Find the A$$ end of nowhere and i'm just north of it... Age: 28 Posts: 3,239	Very nice work...love the details. makes me feel like finishing that dauntless...
	Keep smiling , It makes people wonder what your up to.. Some Cool Sites: 3D Scifi \| Framevoid \| Scifi'ers Anonymous \| Ejected Core \|Wolf Den Productions WIP: Assault Frigate

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