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You've been doing great work for years, but I think this might be your best model ever, Dean.

Quote from: scifidude79 on May 23, 2020, 12:57 pmYou've been doing great work for years, but I think this might be your best model ever, Dean.

I agree!

Thanks Guys

Quote from: scifidude79 on May 23, 2020, 12:57 pmYou've been doing great work for years, but I think this might be your best model ever, Dean.

Thanks Chris that mean a lot.

It funny, I was looking over the few models I finished before I took the five year plus break from modelling and though they look like crap. Hell I though that way when I was building them, epically when you saw the work form Al3d, Andrew March, Coolhand, Howard Day just to name a few.

But since I have came back, I have really found my grove with it. Still got a lot to learn. like how the hell I am going to unwarp this sucker. I also need to make the jump to Blender 2.8 otherwise I am going to start missing out on future feature as they come in. Guess I will do that on the next build.

As I am coming to a close on the Runabout build.
I though I would do a picture of the different size of Star Trek Shuttles. Going from smaller to largest.

For size refences, the person in the picture is 6ft.



coming

That size comparison is cool. You usually don't see those designs side by side properly scaled like that.

Thanks Chris.
Yeah it normal ships of the same era next to each other.


Once I built enough ships, I might have to do a picture / Video showing the scale of all Federation era ships, starting off with the shuttles and ending on the largest Starfleet ship/ station.
But seeing that is a lot of work, it maybe some time until I do something like that.

I was wondering if you built all of those!  Great image, Dean.  Well done.

Put into scale perspective, you can clearly see it is the correct/perfect size to be used as a fed' rock band tour buss.

seriously good work man .

Thanks Guys.

Quote from: Prime_8 on May 28, 2020, 12:02 pmPut into scale perspective, you can clearly see it is the correct/perfect size to be used as a fed' rock band tour buss.

seriously good work man .

Arr, yes Sisko and the Niners!

So while I am figuring out how I am going to texture the Runabout.
I though I would finally bit the bullet and have a little play around in Blender 2.8. After all I did say that I would do my next build in it.

Okay it got a new UI which is nice, but the two things that really bug me about it. Some of the shortcuts no longer work, so what you could do in seconds you now have to go hunting for and on top of that it no longer has a short cut. The other thing that bugging me is that they have change names as well.
Before If you have duplicate verts on a object and you wanted to get rid of them you simple selected all the Verts, press W and then select "Remove Doubles". Job done.
But now you got select all the Verts, click on Meshes go down to Clean up and select "Merge by Distance".

Who the F though it would be a good idea to call it "Merge by Distance"?
I spent 45 mins looking for Remove Doubles and finally had to look it up on youtube.
Anyway here is the results of a half a days working in Blender 2.8. (could have done this in no time in 2.79 but hopeful as I get to know 2.8 things will speed up.)

The little black dot on the saucer is the six foot man seen in my pervious scale pics. gives you an idea of the size of this thing.

Here is a quick pic of all my official Trek ship to scale.
The refit Connie and the Oberth Class are not finished.



Now to stop messing around and get back to finished them off.

Looking good. The refit Connie is much closer to completion. (just saying)

Thanks, yeah it nearly there.
Most of the main modelling is done, it just the small details and cutting in the windows on the secondary Hull and Neck.

Yeah, you're almost there. In my opinion, it would make the most sense to finish that model first. Then, you can have one in the "done" column and go back to the Oberth and figuring out the mess they made in Blender 2.8.

Quote from: Freak on May 30, 2020, 07:06 am

Now to stop messing around and get back to finished them off.

Why in god's name have you not been making pictures with your original series Enterprise?  That looks GREAT!  Yes, I know you still have some small amount of detail to put on the model, but for the love of ... finish that one!  Wow!