The Nadesico A

Bryan K · 30 Jun 2022, 05:12

Upper deck, middle, rear, pods shaping up. Lots of Erase+Crtl on the build lines. It took me two hours to figure how to make them. And for some reason, SU was really uncooperative today.*

I also narrowed the outboard pods inner cone things a little more. Just selected the two rear faces and scaled.

*Ah, a major Windows update was pending. That will do it.

Mike Amos · 30 Jun 2022, 10:42

Bryan K · 30 Jun 2022, 17:52

Thanks Mike!

Bryan K · 2 Jul 2022, 05:49

Very subtle change, but this makes the rear of the upper deck outboard pods point straight back as they should. It also cleaned up a lot of the geometry.

The problem was finding the break in the angle from the sides of the upper deck. Once I saw it, I was able to make the change, but I did not see that break until the other day.

NOW it looks like it is supposed to.

Now, maybe, I can start on those middle pod things. Also added a little more upper deck details.

Bryan K · 4 Jul 2022, 01:09

I was going to do more under the top deck, but saw the outer rear pods were off again.

I did manage to add more detail to the upper middle pods after I made the corrections.

Bryan K · 4 Jul 2022, 06:10

Overview to date.

tuna1957 · 5 Jul 2022, 02:05

Epic Bryan. I’d be stabbing my self in the head with an ice pick about now…

L i am · 5 Jul 2022, 10:44

@tuna1957 said:

Epic Bryan. I’d be stabbing my self in the head with an ice pick about now…

I hear you Tuna
I expect it is the challenge that keeps you going Bryan. Do you have plans for it once it is finished?

Mike Amos · 5 Jul 2022, 10:47

Simply stunning mate. A demonstration of persistance and very nicley done.

Bryan K · 5 Jul 2022, 19:36

@l i am said:

@tuna1957 said:

Epic Bryan. I’d be stabbing my self in the head with an ice pick about now…

I hear you Tuna
I expect it is the challenge that keeps you going Bryan. Do you have plans for it once it is finished?

Thank tuna.

Thanks L i am.

Thanks Mike.

Yeah, I've managed to stop the muttering and giggling.

No solid plans. I'll post the model here for anyone who wants it. Maybe do an anime style scene like my Junji Okubo robots I did in the past. I'll also put it up on the Warehouse. Maybe send an email to the designers.

What I've learned about making and manipulating custom meshes has been invaluable. I wish I had learned this years ago.

Still more geometry to go. Maybe a few more weeks at most.

Bryan K · 7 Jul 2022, 02:47

Blocking in the launch hangers. Easiest shape yet.

Taking a break from the underside of the upper deck.

Also noticed the front nacelles and support struts were too far back. Moved forward. Scaled the struts inward, then intersected with hull and deleted extra interior geometry.

Again, as they were both components, all I had to do was modify one.

Also noticed the black hook things were too short. Selected all four and scaled longer.

Bryan K · 7 Jul 2022, 03:35

The "frame" (what they call Gundams in non-Gundam franchise animes) that I used to scale up my line drawing in the beginning. Found in the Warehouse.

All this work and time and still matching scale. PHEW! I was worried by this time I would be off scale and have to enlarge or shrink the whole thing. Nope. It's good.

Mike Amos · 7 Jul 2022, 09:48

Persistence is paying off mate.

Bryan K · 7 Jul 2022, 17:56

Thanks Mike!

Bryan K · 8 Jul 2022, 22:27

Hanger pods completed except for small detailing.

Bryan K · 8 Jul 2022, 22:37

To scale.

Bryan K · 8 Jul 2022, 22:50

Better quality jpg overview.

L i am · 9 Jul 2022, 14:31

Bryan K · 10 Jul 2022, 06:22

Thanks L i am!

Mike Amos · 10 Jul 2022, 10:26

Thanks for passing that along. Nicely done mate.