Obligatory Hoverbike

ely862me

Great start.
Two things I believe could be better:

The gauges should be a bit more vertical. The actual position will force the rider to take a longer time to read them. Ideally they will be closer to the eyesight driving position.
The footrests should be more horizontal, otherwise it will be nearly impossible to climb on and maintain the feet onto them.

Going quite nice otherwise !
And perhaps a bigger "engine" in the back ? That would be the one holding more mass whilst the front ones are used to support some of the mass and steer.

But hey, it's your imagination, go wild, I like it !

Mike Amos

Defo miving on mate, sleek.

Bryan K

Thanks guys.

This is still a long way from finished.

Bryan K

Still roughing in the details and playing around with the tail.

Bryan K

Working on tightening up and unifying the tail.

Bryan K

Ah, that's better.

Bryan K

Updates. Added landing skids and detailed grav pods, front scoops and minor tweak to rear end.

Bryan K

Almost 2 hours of detailing lost because autobak and autosave didn't work right after SU crashed.

Carloh

looking great this far...i can see another "render this" thread coming up

Bryan K

Thanks Carloh!

More adjustments and detailing.

Bryan K

The detailing I lost last night.

Bryan K

Cleaned up under the seat structure using Curviloft and Round Corners. Had to do a little polygon fiddling, but worth it. Cleaned up rear "fender" as well.

ken28875

Pretty cool, Bryan.

Looking forward to seeing the final render.

Have a good week!

_KN

pilou

Skates are not curvated like snow sky ?

olishea

nice to see the process images as well as the outcome.

Bryan K

@unknownuser said:

Skates are not curvated like snow sky ?

No. Sorry. I don't like that style. Right now, I'm not very happy with the landing pads at all. They are more like "place holders" at the moment.

Still a long way to go. This week I have to remake the front top cowling. So typical of my workflow. If I don't have to remake at least one thing in my model at leave five times, I must be doing it wrong.

Bryan K

@olishea said:

nice to see the process images as well as the outcome.

Thanks! Threads like these were and still are, the kind that help(ed) me to learn and so I like to create them as well.

Bryan K

@ken28875 said:

Pretty cool, Bryan.

Looking forward to seeing the final render.

Have a good week!

_KN

Thanks Ken.

Bryan K

Testing seat styles. I think they were too angular. Trying for a more curvy look.

Mike Amos

Moving in the right direction, those thrusters could almost be magnetic types so intakes would be less of an issue, perhaps there could be an effect of different polarity 'rings' on the thruster housings?