[WIP] Majestic's Babylon 5 Modelling

[Majestic]

A while back I made a remake design for the Sagittarius Missile Frigate from Agents of Gaming miniatures as a 3d model. Not sure if I posted it here or not, but I couldn't find the post so decided to just make a thread dedicated to any Babylon 5 modelling I do. I am hoping to do a little bit.

Here is my Sagittarius model


The last couple of days, trying to distract myself from being so unwell for two weeks, ignoring the dizziness as best I can, I decided to make another Dilgar War era Earth ship, this time the Tiger Starfury, one of the main fighters used during the war. The model came out fairly well, texturing isn't my best but then again I've never been great at that aspect, lacking the fancy tools and ability.

She ended up at 4436, a little high for my liking but modern Strategy games can no doubt handle it.

Without delaying further here is the Earthforce Tiger Starfury.

 

[Majestic]

Cotton Class Fleet Auxiliary Storage and Offloading Vessel, or just Tender. A support, refuelling and repair vessel in easier terms.

Took a good part of a day to model, and another chuck of a day to map and texture but I am quite happy with the results.

 

[Majestic]

Hermes Class Scout/Military Transport is my latest model.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Great work, it looks cool

How large would it be? I'm assuming since it's a scout/transport, it would be rather small.

 

[Majestic]

Great work, it looks cool

How large would it be? I'm assuming since it's a scout/transport, it would be rather small.

Thanks mate, took some liberties with the design, adding some additional detail not seen in the original design and of course my own texture style.

She's pretty small on the low end of the frigate/corvette range. Don't have an exact sizing though. But I did do this.

 

[kjc733]

How large would it be? I'm assuming since it's a scout/transport, it would be rather small.

Don't forget it's an Earth Force "scout," they like to over compensate
Great work Maj, I considered doing a Sagittarius for my Attack Wing conversion but never got around to it.

 

[Majestic]

TShe's pretty small on the low end of the frigate/corvette range. Don't have an exact sizing though. But I did do this.

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I noticed here I made the cotton too small for a supply ship. So I wouldn't call this sheet accurate as of yet. I think I need to make a Hyperion and use if as a guide to scale everyone against.

Don't forget it's an Earth Force "scout," they like to over compensate
Great work Maj, I considered doing a Sagittarius for my Attack Wing conversion but never got around to it.

Oh they do. Lol

I always liked the Sagittarius design, just something about a ship loaded with ordnance that appeals to the sadistic in me.

 

[Hellkite]

Sadistic No..... Masochistic Oh yes!

See a ship loaded with ordnance is slow a mover and always has a target on its back yelling hit me! hit me ! to the Sadistic fighter pilot Who truly loves secondary explosions..

Just saying

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:

Thanks mate, took some liberties with the design, adding some additional detail not seen in the original design and of course my own texture style.

She's pretty small on the low end of the frigate/corvette range. Don't have an exact sizing though. But I did do this.

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That is a cool size comparison between your new ships! I look forward to see them alongside your take of more known EA designs .

Sadistic No..... Masochistic Oh yes!

See a ship loaded with ordnance is slow a mover and always has a target on its back yelling hit me! hit me ! to the Sadistic fighter pilot Who truly loves secondary explosions..

Just saying

I think it was always worth to consider an expert's opinion .

 

[Majestic]

Sadistic No..... Masochistic Oh yes!

See a ship loaded with ordnance is slow a mover and always has a target on its back yelling hit me! hit me ! to the Sadistic fighter pilot Who truly loves secondary explosions..

Just saying

The Sag is certainly a slowly moving target, she's also probably the largest frigate due to all those missiles she needs to store. I wonder if when I put her in-game if I can have her make a larger than normal explosion that can damage nearby units, both foe and friendly. Would be a neat addition to her. Would make you want to keep e some distance from your important fleet assets.

Hello:


That is a cool size comparison between your new ships! I look forward to see them alongside your take of more known EA designs .

It's updated to be more accurate.



Yeah working on some freighters now. Got 3 to do.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
Very cool! That missile frigate is a big-bad boy now .

 

[Archonon]

Gorgeous work Maj! Although these ships likely would be too high ploy for Armada, I sure wish we would have had you on the team back when we made B5A2.

 

[Majestic]

Gorgeous work Maj! Although these ships likely would be too high ploy for Armada, I sure wish we would have had you on the team back when we made B5A2.

Back in the B5A2 days I couldn't model lol.
Well the Sagittarius is 6k in poly's. The Hermes is about 3k, the Cotton is 8k so yeah probably a bit high, considering their roles. They're probably on the low side when talking Sins of a Solar Empire. I like to see models low so I have spam them and not cause framerate issues, especially when the AI in Sins sometimes just spams frigates and the frame rate drops because you have 2 or 3 of them doing this.

Finished a freighter last night, now two more to go.

 

[Chiletrek]

I must say I am starting to worry about my polies though ... although in this old pc and FleetOps can manage a 10k Borg Cube + fleet, so maybe I don't have to overreact (much) .

 

[Majestic]

I must say I am starting to worry about my polies though ... although in this old pc and FleetOps can manage a 10k Borg Cube + fleet, so maybe I don't have to overreact (much) .

What poly count are you concerned with? I know FO can handle higher poly's to a degree. Though another way is to make units more powerful, slower and more expensive to build, so you have less of them on screen. Essentially make them the opposite of a spam faction.

 

[Chiletrek]

What poly count are you concerned with? I know FO can handle higher poly's to a degree. Though another way is to make units more powerful, slower and more expensive to build, so you have less of them on screen. Essentially make them the opposite of a spam faction.

Well, that is indeed idea for all my mod projects, about making units to be harder to get and you need to use them carefully, so we cannot expect fleets of 16 Aurora class cruisers . But indeed most polies for most factions go in the turrets.

What I want is to make the mods go for the Classic A2 inside FleetOps.

 

[Majestic]

Turrets do add the poly count and make it spike. Reason I want to learn 3dsMax one day soon, when I get my grubby mits on a copy haha. Since I am not moving to Sins, I am find MS3d is just struggling with my 10-20k poly counts hahaha.

 

[Majestic]

Last few days I have been busy, not 1 but 3 models.

Saturn Transport

I built this one, a design straight from the series, to be used as a starbase constructor. She was a challenge, despite some fiddly sections within the head, I had to alter the design somewhat to get her lower on the old poly count. I managed to cut about 3 thousand off it, most of it just behind the head, where all that complicated scaffolding is. It came out fairly good even if she's not quite accurate to the design we saw. I like to think she's an earlier version/variant than what we saw in the show. In my head canon she'd a new design in the 2230's, hence the use as a military starbase constructor.

Mallacore Transport

A design by @-RJB- I recreated it in low poly format, some liberties had to be taken to try and keep the poly count low. She still ended up around the 11k mark (like the Saturn did). I have her as the trade ship/vessel in my mind when I chose her, as I wanted something easily disguisable next to the Saturn and it was perfect for this. I really didn't want to do a Saturn variant. While I believe RJB, may have had it designed as a newer replacement or substitute to the Saturn, I am using it in my 2230's project, so went the opposite here in my head canon.

Azel Transport

Inspired heavily by Atolm/Azel's freighter redesign concept image he made, I named this in his honour. It's not an exact reproduction, but resembles it enough. It's what I will use as a constructor and she's the shortest of the trio. Again I wanted something easily identifiable and different to the other transports (Saturn and Mallacore) and this fit the bill. This one came out the lowest in poly count which I am not surprised considering she has 2 fewer pods.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:

Turrets do add the poly count and make it spike. Reason I want to learn 3dsMax one day soon, when I get my grubby mits on a copy haha. Since I am not moving to Sins, I am find MS3d is just struggling with my 10-20k poly counts hahaha.

They do indeed, but they certainly add to the feel of the ship! Of course for some ships more than others, like I decided I need to rebuild the RDM Battlestar Galactica, but I cannot imagine her without the turrets, because it's part of the essence! Same with ships like the BC-304 or the SDF-3.
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Those non-combat shipslook great! . It is interesting how they all follow the same philosophies.

 

[Majestic]

Hello:

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Those non-combat shipslook great! . It is interesting how they all follow the same philosophies.

So many transport styles in B5, probably the most common ships seen in the early seasons were transports coming too and from the station. Since the work I am doing is set 30 years before B5 I wanted a few unique designs here, rather than duplicating all the designs seen in the series.

 

[Majestic]

Oracle Class Frigate
Early Earth built scout, coming into service not long after first contact with the Centauri and the introduction to hyperspace technology. Oracle's were critical in establishing the Earth Alliance and her colonies as they were responsible for discovering and surveying the Vega, Proxima and Orion systems. Retrofitted into a support and patrol frigate for Earthforce in recent years. She's old but still useful. Essentially the forerunner in design philosophy to the Sagittarius class and the more modern frigates fielded currently within Earthforce.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:

So many transport styles in B5, probably the most common ships seen in the early seasons were transports coming too and from the station. Since the work I am doing is set 30 years before B5 I wanted a few unique designs here, rather than duplicating all the designs seen in the series.

Certainly that is something forgotten for most franchises (except BSG) which is the presence of the non-combat ships and how vital their roles are, so it is awesome to see more!

 

[Majestic]

Today's efforts, 5k in poly count so not too bad. Probably last B5 ship for a couple of days, got some other things to do. I almost didn't make this one as she's a bit of an oddball, but glad I did as she turned out fairly well in the end.

Olympus Class

An older military design, designed when the Earth Alliance was in it's infancy, found more often dealing with Raiders and piracy than any significant fleet actions. Still in use today and there are no plans to retire the class. Some have been retrofitted for specialised roles including patrol, anti-piracy and light carrier duties. The smallest combat ship used by Earthforce.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Good work as usual, Maj.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
I like that ship¿s shapes a lot, it's like simplistic until you start taking a deeper look .

 

[Majestic]

Good work as usual, Maj.

Thanks mate.

Hello:
I like that ship's shapes a lot, it's like simplistic until you start taking a deeper look .

Yeah she is a little complicated in some parts. She's 5500 poly's so I suppose she's not too bad considering the fighter is 4k lol. It's all those cylinders that do it on designs like this.

 

[Chiletrek]

Thanks mate.

Yeah she is a little complicated in some parts. She's 5500 poly's so I suppose she's not too bad considering the fighter is 4k lol. It's all those cylinders that do it on designs like this.

If the Continuum has said this once they have said it a thousand times: Cylinders are evil!

 

[Majestic]

Time for some big guns, emphasis on the word guns. This one ended up a little over 12,000 poly's which I am rather surprised she didn't go further. I was expecting more like 15,000-17,000 in my initial guesstimate. Still as the most powerful capital ship I think it worked out extremely well all this considered.

Nova Dreadnought

Entering service in the mid-late 2220's, the Nova, is the forerunner to the Omega class that would see introduction after the Earth-Minbari war. The Nova served during both the Dilgar war and the later Earth-Minbari war. In the former it dominated the battlefield with only the Dilgar Mishakur class Dreadnought being a rival or considerable threat to them one on one.

Considered a dreadnought herself, she was armed to the teeth with plasma and particle cannons and was the most powerful mass produced capital ship during the Dilgar war by Earthforce, one of the few ships during the war that put the fear into the Dilgar. She was also the first class to be equipped with the newer Nova class starfury, replacing the Tiger class. Despite being a front line warship the Nova could also transport 18,000 Gropos (Ground Pounders) to any given planet, making them extremely valuable to Earth's operations against the Dilgar expansions.

 

[Archonon]

I've always had a huge soft spot for the Nova, I liked it so much I made a custom special barrage weapon for my B5A2 mod back in the day that would spew hellfire at any enemies. Absolutely gorgeous model Maj.

I think I read you are focusing on an earlier timeline, so my only regret here is that you will not be making models for the Omega, Poseidon and Warlock too. Those are crucial to any EA fleet imo.

 

[Majestic]

Yeah earlier timeline (Dilgar war) hence the blue prototype livery on her. She's the most powerful capital ship, apart from the single built Titan.