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[WIP] Walshicus' Ships

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Okay that it !... Who are you and what have you done with Walshicus??? This ship is not obscure in fact somewhat will known .. So I repeat Who are you and what have you done with Walshicus???

but good job on the Protostar ...who ever you are ""Changeling or something ""

But please return Walshicus to us unharmed .;)

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Was never a fan of the design myself, but still a quality model and texture. Better than I could do at any rate haha.
 
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Hellkite said:
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Okay that it !... Who are you and what have you done with Walshicus??? This ship is not obscure in fact somewhat will known .. So I repeat Who are you and what have you done with Walshicus???

but good job on the Protostar ...who ever you are ""Changeling or something ""

But please return Walshicus to us unharmed .;)

@Walshicus
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Hah, well sometimes you just gotta try something new!

To be fair, I've got a few ENT one-episode-wonder ships I still need to make headway on, so back to regular scheduling soon.
 
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That ENT ship I mentioned will have to wait as I've been on a Vulcan kit-bash spree lately...

This is what I'm calling the Pahn-Ree class, a Battlecruiser taking inspiration from the Defiant class.

Pahn-Ree Top.png Pahn-Ree Bottom.png Pahn-Ree Side.png Pahn-Ree Front.png Pahn-Ree Rear.png Pahn-Ree Front Top.png Pahn-Ree Rear Bottom.png
 
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It's a cool design, those annular warp drives never get boring :thumbsup:
 
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Awesome design, love seeing fleets fleshed out. :)
 
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This time I figured I'd try my hand at restoring an old BotF model, the Romulan R'Derex class, which looks like this for those who may not remember:
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It turns out the artist Sebastian Hyde had posted some higher-resolution assets from this model on his website. These then were scaled further, recoloured and given some (hopefully) appropriate materials and normals:

Rderex Top.png RDerex Bottom.png RDerex Front.png RDerex Rear.png RDerex Side.png RDerex Top Angle.png RDerex Rear Angle.png


I also took the opportunity to make a Reman set of textures:
RDerex Reman Top Angle.png

And a Garidian set:
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Pretty cool. Love the Garidian, they are often ignored due to only appearing in "A Final Unity", a fond game from my childhood.
 
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Yeah, I loved A Final Unity. I try and make Garidian textures of all Romulan ships I use.

I made some Chodak ships a while back too, which I could probably update to be less... rubbish. Might add them to the list of redos.
 
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Yeah it was a great game. I wanted to do TMP era Garidan's for a bit of fun, give them a mixture of Romulan/Vulcan style mixture. Never got around to that though like so many ideas of mine hahaha.
 
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Damn that's pretty cool and fits right in with them. Awesome work mate. :)
 
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That's another good one, always liked that unique starbase design from STO's unused concepts :D
 
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Cool, well done :)
 
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Found a really interesting but untextured model on a free download site a while back, which caught my eye as it fit my mental image of a Betazoid design. After some extensive re-texturing and remodelling I had a good starting point for a small set of three (for now) ships. The Avandar class Scout, Khara class Light Cruiser, Indar class Command Cruiser:


Betazoid Top.pngBetazoid Bottom.pngBetazoid Front.pngBetazoid Rear.pngBetazoid Side.pngBetazoid Top Front.pngBetazoid Rear Bottom.png


In hindsight the colour scheme ended up a little bit too close to the "Covenant" from Halo, and I might shift it closer to white than purple. The central theme is the inner ring area, which I'm positing as part of the warp propulsion system, similar to the the Vulcan exterior rings. I also used a ring-shape for the Scout's sensor suite attachment.

EDIT: Just realised that the logo decal at the rear of the top of the Command Cruiser didn't render correctly... I'm too lazy to re-run right now, so just imagine it has the Betazoid flag emblem there. :D
 
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These are amazing mate. Very interesting take, not what I was expecting when I think Betazoid, but so much better as they're so different to the Earth based Federation.
 
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Those are some cool designs, well done. :thumbsup:
 
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Less obscure this time, I thought I'd take a crack at adapting a T'Liss model I was using to become the variant from Picard S1. Took forever to find some decent reference images...

TKela Top.pngTKela Bottom.pngTKela Side.pngTKela Front.pngTKela Rear.pngTKela Front Top.pngTKela Rear Bottom.png

Fortunately the normal map was pretty easy to put together for this one, and I think it turned out okay.
 
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Looks good and Yes less obscure but good work none the less master shipwright.
 
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CptBenSisko said:
how high poly are some of these models?
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The Warbird is... About 5k I think. Not on Desktop at the moment so can't check, but most of the detail is in the normal map.

The Betazoid ships are in the same ballpark too, though the Tellarite station ended up a bit bigger. I need to do a final final pass on it, and bake the textures properly. I tend to avoid that for stations because the game I use them in (Stellaris) needs five levels for Starbase models and doesn't support separate ambient occlusion maps...
 
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How is Stellaris? Ive seen people talk about it over on the Stellar Parallax Discord.. they have a section for it.. is it an RTS? similar to Sins?
 
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I really like it, but then I'm biased. :D

Yeah, Stellar Parallax were working on a full total conversion many moons ago, but had some messy interactions with another project and ended up releasing a (really good) shipset for it. Max was kind enough though to share some Vulcan content with me for my project (Star Trek New Civilisations).

It's not really Sins-like - you don't control combat directly. It's very much a Paradox Grand Strategy game where you spend just as much time handling the economy or exploring as you do fighting people.
 
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Walshicus said:
I really like it, but then I'm biased. :D

Yeah, Stellar Parallax were working on a full total conversion many moons ago, but had some messy interactions with another project and ended up releasing a (really good) shipset for it. Max was kind enough though to share some Vulcan content with me for my project (Star Trek New Civilisations).

It's not really Sins-like - you don't control combat directly. It's very much a Paradox Grand Strategy game where you spend just as much time handling the economy or exploring as you do fighting people.
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Or like Birth of the Federation
 
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And BOF is a very good game for it's day :thumbsup:

Master @Walshicus I have challenge for you completely obscure to the point it is original and is only a 2d drawing ...
With that said you are under no obligation to do it at all . But I would like to see what you could do with it with your high degree of talent. I have that much faith in you to trust it to you.

With that said
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side profile by @Jetfreak

It without a drought one of my Favorite designs I made never to have been done in 3d.
As I said you are under no obligation at all . But with that said it be dog fighting / flighting around with the work of Master Aad Moerman
seen here http://www.msfc.com.au/community/index.php?resources/tal-nuir-romulan-light-starfighter.253/

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I present this for your consideration

and Jet did a retexture for the tal-nuir see here http://www.msfc.com.au/community/index.php?resources/tal-nuir-retexture.255/
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Roger that
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