[WIP] Walshicus' Ships

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
OMGs, those are all very unique-looking stations, very well done!

 

[Terra_Inc]

Great work all around! Loving the industrial, low-tech look of these stations. The starbase in particular is very impressive.

 

[Walshicus]

Thanks! Yeah, I was pretty happy with how the material itself turned out. The starbase design was a bit tricky though. Not sure I've necessarily got the 'feel' for their design yet.

 

[navygrizman]

Man all of those look awesome. A lot of talent here. What program (or programs) do you use to get started and learn?

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
I hopw Walshicus can reply you soon, but many people here use Milkshape3d, you have to pay for it but is quite cheap in price and the program is very intuitive. Otherwise you might go for Blender, which is free and extremely powerful, but you'll need to read tons of tutorials.... but for what I've heard, is very worthy.

 

[Walshicus]

Yeah, personally I use blender. I used to texture with Photoshop, but now I'm using Substance.

 

[Walshicus]

Been meaning to do this one for a while now - the TMP era refit of the NX class from STO:



A lot of the panelling is done on the gloss channel though, and while it looks good in-engine and in Substance, for the life of me I can't quite get it to match in Blender.

 

[Admiral*Alex]

Been meaning to do this one for a while now - the TMP era refit of the NX class

I'm going to be frank. I thought I was looking at a render of STO's TMP NX-Refit. Then it dawned on me...this is your recreation of STO's model. Words can not describe how exact this looks.

 

[Walshicus]

Thank you! Yeah, the clue is in the rear of the pod-thingies (don't actually know what you'd call them) by the impulse vents - I couldn't get them quite right. That and I was lazy with some of the cutouts in the saucer following existing geometry...

 

[ArvisTaljik]

That's some fantastic work on the Columbia

 

[Zelph]

That is beautiful right there.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Hmmm, that's an interesting design. Not sure what to think of it right now. There are parts that I really like, and others I think look a bit weird.
Certainly an excellent model though, good work!

 

[Walshicus]

I'd been putting this one off for years, but was kindly provided with some quality Orthos to base it on...

The Flaxian assassin's ship from DS9, neeeearly completed. Will post some more views when I've finished tweaking some of the detailing.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Wow, this looks really good.

 

[Walshicus]

Half built half kitbashed a Battlecruiser for the Flaxians. The Nimaria Scout I've set at 120m. The Julasa Battlecruiser I've set to 400m.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
Those are two very good-looking ships!
Great work with the modelling .

 

[Starfox1701]

Not familiar with these guy but they look good.

 

[Admiral*Alex]

Not familiar with these guy but they look good.

They were a newly create species throw away for "Improbable Cause" of Ds9 as they needed a species to try and kill Garak which to set off the whole plot of the two parter (The Die is Cast)

 

[Walshicus]

Yup. The shorter the time they're onscreen, the more likely I am to give it a shot.

 

[Walshicus]

So this next one appears in the DS9 intro but we never really get a good view of it beyond this:


Given the lack of reference material, I wasn't sure how my attempt would turn out... I've interpreted it as a Lurian design, in the Light Cruiser / Freighter weight category, after seeing some people joke that it's Morn's ship.

 

[Admiral*Alex]

It feels very much like a DS9/TNG throwaway species ship. Looks retro while still feeling Trek. Reminds me a lot of SFC species ships.
I honestly wonder what their battleship and frigates designs look like.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
That is one great interpretation from such a blurry pic!

 

[Terra_Inc]

What everyone else said. Great work, especially given the blurry reference.

 

[Walshicus]

It feels very much like a DS9/TNG throwaway species ship. Looks retro while still feeling Trek. Reminds me a lot of SFC species ships.
I honestly wonder what their battleship and frigates designs look like.

I gave them this as a Scout/Frigate:


"Chatter" class.

 

[Walshicus]

Next one was originally just going to be a quick kit-bash but ended up taking most of the week... World Razer class from Picard Series 2.





Only thing I haven't settled on yet is whether to do the Deflector in Red or not.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
The model is amazing, but the design is like "What the frak?" as I don't know how to feel about those TOS Cylon Raider wings

 

[Admiral*Alex]

Next one was originally just going to be a quick kit-bash but ended up taking most of the week... World Razer class from Picard Series 2.

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Only thing I haven't settled on yet is whether to do the Deflector in Red or not.

Red seems cool, but why not both?

 

[Walshicus]

TBH I messed up and should have put the deflector on its own UV... Would have made it cheaper (in file size) to swap out and meant I had a higher UV/Mesh density for the rest.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
Well, things like that happen

 

[Starfox1701]

So were are these getting released?