Spaceship time again!
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No way, no how was that going to work for the rear engines. I've deleted the block, re-skinned the hull and will hand draw the engines in place.
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Taking a break. Between the weather (huge temp swings) and seasonal allergies, I'm not able to focus like I need to.
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It's not going anywhere mate, time to be kind to one's self for a while. See you on the flip side.
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Alrighty! I'm getting a handle on this. This is not it either, but I now know what direction to go in. I am quite close. I'll have to rip all this out again, but the next one should be it. Or very damn close to it.
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Just a bit more refinement and I'll have the upper shell of the rear engine pods.
You can see the block sections I had to create to make this work. Lot and lots of arcs and then Curviloft to skin. I also had to shorten the rear section by a lot. Just selected all four rear sections and scaled along the red axis. Then built the engine pods sections.
A little more refinement to the front hull as well by changing the white section.
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Now we're gettin' somewhere!
I do believe I can start the bottom hull now. I'll come back and detail the engine pods later. I need to get the whole thing roughed in first.
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Always interesting to watch these progress.
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So a bit more squashing here and there. I can already see this will not be one-for-one, but there is only one view to go by, so it will only be close.
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Hi Bryan, when I first saw you reference Spacship the first thing I saw was the thrust engines and how it looks like that craft relies fundamentaly on thrust vectoring. Am aware you have plans for that but I think that function rests heavily on those thrusters. Just for consideration I think that doing a really cool thrust vector mechanism along with some titanium materials could make that model when you get to detailing that part
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I think you're right , L I am. Those may very well be swivel engines. It's certainly the only way I can reconcile the odd perspective.
And it also looks like swivel engines under a top cover. I've already stated moving in that direction by making the engines themselves separate.
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Moving along now.
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Getting closer mate, like it a lot.
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@mike amos said:
Getting closer mate, like it a lot.
Thanks.
This one is weird, I can feel it, I can see it, but it still eludes me.
But I'll sure as hell nail it.
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Cockpit rough-in. Just trying to get a sense of scale and plan the cockpit. This is very rough. Just for scaling.
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Dang allergies again and trying to get some house chores done before the summer heat sets in.
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Tweaking the surface of this section. Close but not there yet.
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There, that's better. Just had to keep eyeballing it and fiddling with the arcs.
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I like where this is going, despite the boogers, you make a mean spaceship mate.
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@mike amos said:
I like where this is going, despite the boogers, you make a mean spaceship mate.
Thanks!
Hope to make some serious progress on it this weekend.
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