The Nadesico A
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Roughing the bridge. It's close, but not round enough.
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Other views. No progress today.
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Smoothed out the bridge. Had to completely rebuild. Used Curviloft skin countours. It's done, just needs detailing.
Added the bubble to the main hull. It's a group within the component. (it's too small and I've already enlarged it)
Fiddled with the overall shape of the upper decks. Smoothed out (Erase+Ctrl) and narrowed the front of the neck. Erase+Ctrl'd the remaining hull lines, except the very top.
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Blocking out the top decks. Same old issues. Odd angles and shapes. No decent references.
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It looks like the finish line is in sight
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^ It does indeed and a fine conclusion it will be.
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@tuna1957 said:
It looks like the finish line is in sight
For the block out, yes. The details? Maybe another month. -
@mike amos said:
^ It does indeed and a fine conclusion it will be.
Thanks Mike and tuna, but the level of detail is going to take a while. Here is a sample.
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Still working on the block out of the upper decks.
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Fiddle, fiddle. Closer and closer.
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I'll set up a better animation tomorrow.
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The animation will have to wait. Brain frazzled from working on the upper decks.
For the same reason I'm taking a break from figuring out the upper decks, so I just did some inner detailing. Inset the main beam muzzle and resized the inner front pylon nacelle mounts. Also added the black panels to the front nacelle struts. They will also get more detail in the future.
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I really do love the shape of this ship. 4 months (four?! damn) of working on it and I still like looking at it.
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Not a lot to see. Still pushing and pulling vectors and lines and even redrawing lines for the upper decks. It's getting there. A little more sleeker and smoother.
Took a stab at the upper deck rear pods. Meh. Better, but I'll have to remake them.
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Waiting patiently for the big finish
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Thanks tuna!
Almost ready to commit on upper decks.
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Overview to date. YAY! It's halfway finished!
Did I mention the remaining detailing? Yeah, that's the other half.
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The overall shape of the upper decks is now good. Committing to detailing. There will still be some fiddling with the overall shape as I add details, but the general shape is now good.
There are still 4 more sections to create. The two mecha hangers on top of the forward pylon struts and the two landing pods underneath the forward pylon struts. Both of which will be an individual section, made into components, then copied and flipped.
THEN the final detailing. But first, rough in the details of the upper decks.
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Oops, the bridge was to big. Way too big. Fixed. Simple scale down.
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Taking a break and re-watching the series again for more insight to the upper decks and future detailing.
The rear of the upper decks is still not quite right. No major changes required, but certainly more tweaking of proportions is needed.
Now that I have gotten this far, I see from the anime that everything so far is spot on with only tiny variations in the details, which is also not consistent from episode to episode. So no problems there.
The final detailing though... holy moly. Yeah, months to go yet.
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