HMS Victory 1765
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HMS Victory,
1st try at modeling a ship! 10hrs into the model and it's a big learning curve. Plenty of mistakes and retakes, working from paper plans is a pain.
John
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Wow that looks like a pain in the are to model with all those lines and rigging eek! Paper plans is good if you could scan them in and then trace in photoshop like you would with normal digital blueprints?
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John!!!
I don't think I've ever been as excited over a WIP. I am so excited for this. Especially the renders.
Best of luck, and happy modelling. 
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Liam, I was going to scan the plans but thought this was may have been more acurate, even so it's still a lot of tweaking.
John, thanks I hope I can pull it off!
I had heaps of appreciation for the way people modeled cars, trains, boats ect in SU; I've even more now. This type of modeling is totaly alien to me. Anyway, not much progress today after a young lady decided my car looked better with hers rammed in the back of it!
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A little progress today, the three main masts are in place, a lot more involved than I anticipated; lots of details which cannot be seen.
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Looking good!
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Thanks Bryan. A bit more done tonight, one thing I'm learning is when things go wrong they go wrong quickly
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Better and better.
Yeah, don't they though? I can relate.
I'm still getting the fine art of production flow down. -
Something I always do now is save constant versions of the same model so when I mess up at some point as usually guaranteed or realize I have put all the (lasers/robots etc) upside down I just open a previous file and rebuild again.
I turn autosave off these days, risky but the files are usually quite large and its annoying when it slows down to save, gets you into the mentality of physically saving often. -
This looks good. I'll be watching it as well. I have a little ship I want to do for an animation but my first efforts were so bad I decided to take some baby steps first. Thumbs up.
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@tadema said:
...when things go wrong they go wrong quickly
LOL totally agree.
Your ship is coming along great. But coming from you it is not a surprise. Can't wait to see it finished and textured.
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Looking good im watching this one as well
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@unknownuser said:
quite an ambitious project the HMS Victory
Yup it certainly is, but from what I see it's going well.
I would have started with a row boat.
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Mighty stuff. You gonna tile the deck?
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Thank you everyone. Liam I've been saving copies throughout, copy - paste in place has helped me out a few times. Bupaje, TIG's Extrude edges by loft is fantastic for this. Karina, long way before rendering, I'm not sure about texturing the hull! Marius, it was your models that inspired me, if mine turns out 1/10 as good as yours I'll be more than happy. Pete I'm in awe of your skills. Rich, lol..too slippy (elf n saftey) anyway my tiling days are long gone.
A liitle progress.. Glad a lot of the bendy stuffs done, I can now enjoy the modeling.
John
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It's going along great, I would not have the patience, how many megs is the file so far?
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Hello Victor, the file is now 3.4meg although that has shot up today due to all the small parts. The hull was around 1.2mb
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Hi John, not that big of a file at all so far, I thought it would be bigger. Today I was working on something that was almost 12 megs, and it was moving ssslllooowly.
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A little bit further along; The "Officers Quaters" at the back of the ship was a nightmare! square windows into round un-vertical walls
four attempts later!. I realise that a lot of what's modelled will never be seen but thats one of several things I've gleaned not to do again in the next model 
I'm pretty pleased so far but stopping myself from starting the rigging until the hull is completely finished. 4.74MB at pesent.
John
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