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Eric, Which one the original or the refit?
The Original is finished, but you're I do need to do more pictures with her.

Someone over on Scifi-Meshes.com said that the runabout dose not need to be textures, as I have put in enough details.
I was only planning to weather the ship, I am going to leave it for now as I can always come back to it.

Anyway, I have given the runabout a registration number and name. As the Runabout are all named after Earth rivers, I have kept this up, with giving it the name Severn. This named after the River Severn here in the UK which is also the longest in the UK.
I would have called it a day there. But the Runabout can have also a module pod attached. So I have modelled this as well.

Right time to make some pictures with this and then get back to Refit Enterprise.

You could overlay your materials with a procedural for weathering.

The runabout and pod both look great as is, though.

Quote from: Freak on Jun 01, 2020, 01:01 pmEric, Which one the original or the refit?
The Original is finished, but you're I do need to do more pictures with her.

The original.  I'd love to see what you do with it.

Quote from: scifidude79 on Jun 01, 2020, 01:27 pmYou could overlay your materials with a procedural for weathering.

The runabout and pod both look great as is, though.

I was going to say the same thing!

Quote from: scifidude79 on Jun 01, 2020, 01:27 pmYou could overlay your materials with a procedural for weathering.

How do I do that? When it comes to Texturing my knowledge is very basic.


Eric, I will crack out some pictures soon.

I'd have to mess around with Blender to remember how to do procedurals in that way, but it shouldn't be terribly difficult.

After having a little break after finishing the Runabout build, I am now back to work on the refit Connie.
Not much to show, I have resided the Reg on the nacelles and cut in the Panels, airlock and windows on the secondary hull.
I have also model the "tail" from the neck running down the secondary hull back.
All that is left to do now is add the light cut out that shine on the pylons.
Add the phaser nibbles, detail the side of the hanger bay entrance and add the reg marking on the secondary hull.

Once I have done all that I'll check to see if I have missed anything and get on that.
I will then install all the lights so the ship can be seen in space and box model some location behind the windows. I'll just put a light and nothing else, though I might do something different for the arboretum.

Then I can move on to correcting the material colours and get onto the textures.
Also do another set of Reg Marking so I can swap it out for the Ent-A.

Very pretty!

It looks great.

looks great.

procedurals are pretty easy now .. but its kind of situation where there are many tools.

and other is to paint directly on the mesh. blender can do that well now . it's a small bit of setup tp let blender do teh uniform unwrap .

Thanks Guys.

She almost done, just a few odds and ends left to do now. I should have an update by the end of the week, then I move onto the Texturing this girl.
Eric Tut on Texturing TOS Connie will be very helpful in doing this.

Quote from: Prime_8 on Jun 09, 2020, 07:29 pmprocedurals are pretty easy now .. but its kind of situation where there are many tools.

and other is to paint directly on the mesh. blender can do that well now . it's a small bit of setup tp let blender do teh uniform unwrap .

I'll have to look up some tut's for it.


So as I am coming to a close on this build I have been thinking of what to do next.
As you know my next ship build will be the Oberth Class, which should be a quick build.
After that I am thinking of doing the Excelsior Class. I'll do two version of this. The Excelsior itslef as seen in Star Trek III and VI and the refit Ent-B.

As for my next shuttle, as I can't complete all the Shuttle seen on TNG as the file for the final one is at work and I can't get in at the moment due to restriction with work saying we can't use public transport which I need to use to get in.  (The Shuttle is about about 50% completed)
I have been thinking about modifing my Type 6 TNG model into the shuttle seen in Star TreK: V TFF.

As to what I build after that, Who knows. But I still plan on building all the Enterprises. I don't think I will be building the J though as that came from one possiable future Timeline with the whole Time War thing in Enterprise and we never really got a good look at her.

The Excelsior class is always a great choice. It's a damn fine ship, one of my favorite designs.

All modelling is now done. I have added box rooms behind the windows with lighting.
I also modelled all the decals. I should have really done this in the textures, as the only thing that would be changed would the ship name and Reg, for a different ship in the class if I ever do that. But I was on a roll.

Anyway here is where is she is now.
Next is to start texturing her and I can call her done.













*Edit* while uploading the pictures I notices I have missed the greebles on the side of the airlock on the B/C deck and the hanger bay door. Speaking of doors, I have also missed details those up so I be doing that as well.

Looks fantastic, bro. As long as you didn't stencil the name and registry on the ship, it should be fairly easy to redo that in Blender. I would think it wouldn't be any easier or harder to do in there versus a vector graphics drawing program.

That is outstanding work, Dean!