HMS Victory 1765

solo

@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.

KarinaGM

@solo said:

I would have started with a row boat.

And I'd start with a logs raft ^^

Rich O Brien

Mighty stuff. You gonna tile the deck?

tadema

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

Vicspa

It's going along great, I would not have the patience, how many megs is the file so far?

tadema

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

Vicspa

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.

tadema

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

solo

I'm looking forward to seeing the texturing, from what I've seen of your stuff that's gonna be awesome.

tadema

Thanks Pete, the boat is almost all painted except the deck so it'll be a challange to get it looking decent, may need to rely on bump maps.
Little progress to show, most of whats been drawn today can't be seen unless I do a few close in renders. Started the first stage of the rigging. Every time I looked at it there was something missing!! the sons just pointed out the anchors easily overlooked as they are only 4.2m doh
John

SketchUpNoobie

Coming along fantastically! Can't wait to see the finished product.

tadema

The thick end of a weeks drawing and the computers groaning, it's like the wife; past it's best and badly needing upgrading. I would have carried on with her rigging her for full sails but at 460k edges & 194k faces I'm unsure what will happen when textures are applied. Loved almost every minute of the drawing, now for the tedious part, hope I can do her justice!
John

liam887

@tadema said:

The thick end of a weeks drawing and the computers groaning, it's like the wife; past it's best and badly needing upgrading. I would have carried on with her rigging her for full sails but at 460k edges & 194k faces I'm unsure what will happen when textures are applied. Loved almost every minute of the drawing, now for the tedious part, hope I can do her justice!
John

Even the largest models can be cut down with good use of layers helping the computer deal with large file sizes! Hipe you can keep going this model is awesome!