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So, without dribbeling on about my losses, the past 3 days I did start something new, (also finished the mapping of the underside of the ARROW)
It was brought on by looking at DJ's Juno, and thinking I have never seen a small tough looking tos feddy... not one that some one has just cut a shape out of the saucer and just added a necelle anyway... and it got me thinking of a JJ / ENT themed TOS timeline ship....
If the Doomsday machine was to the TOS federation of planets that the BORG is to the TNG Federation of planets, would they have made a pure warship or atleast thought of one? so i started sketching, and this is the result.. its a long way off yet and will post more tonight. Massively non cannon I know, scaling i will need help with before i model in the windows, should be sub 18k when finished... sits at 8k triangles currently.
Style and textures will be a detailed blend of TOS / ENT / JJ theme as its the current trend for this era in my opinion.. 8)
Creation method:-
1. spline for the frontall hull... lathed to 180
2. spline cage for the remainder of the hull drawing back from the 180 degree split
3. cage modifier / surface modifier / cap holes / ffd modifier to adjust shape
4. cut sides out of hull, then re welded, and reshaped
5. necelles and struts created with box modifier (simple shapes) - cuts booleans etc
6. all verts welded, all faces created 3 sided = clean mesh (one object)
7. more to do 8) lots of detail coming. (done properly)
To do:-
1. bussards need detailing followed by a triangulation reduction in poly count.
2. underside needs starting, detailed deflector / kelvin / jj connie / ent era style embedded like / tmp excel
3. weapons, pulse cannons and torps, plus standard bubble phasers need adding.
4. mesh detail... lots to be added.
5. map and texture :o
