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[Bryan K]

@tuna1957 said:

Nice now I’ll go quietly wait in my corner for the renders

Thanks!

...but your children may be grown by the time I finish this one.

I was doing some other preliminary smoothing tests and, man, have I got trouble. Curviloft worked great on the nose of the front nacelles, but another section toward the rear of the front nacelles are going to require complete rebuilds.

No problem though. I'm really learning new things on this one. It's also the cleanest complex build I've done to date. Minimal stray line to hunt down and erase, that sort of thing.

[Bryan K]

Damn. I am really excited about this model. I want to keep working on it non-stop.

Nope. Got to call it a night.

[L i am]

Epic Bryan, I know about not being able to put it down Have you saved it to an external thumb drive?

[Bryan K]

Thanks L i am.

I do indeed have an external backup store on my desk. I also used Google Drive.

[Bryan K]

HA! Did I get lucky!

So a combination of Curviloft for some areas and Erase+ctrl for larger flat areas seems to do the trick. I rebuilt the problem sections far faster than I anticipated. Far faster and they look soooo much better!

Thanks to the changes I was able to make the large black holes on the lower section flat and make a clean Push/Pull indent as well. Also able to straighten out a lot of other areas that were kind of jagged. OK, they were very jagged.

Well huh. I'm already halfway through clean up far faster than I would have thought!

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[Bryan K]

Partially complete detailing rear engine pods. I'm happy with them so I started detailing but will stop here for now and move on to the next sections.

Mostly just blocks with some very basic angle shaping and some Joint Push/Pull to help with the weird angles. So MANY weird angles on this thing.

Then Tools on Surface for some of the other blocks.

Also widened the rear center thingies and change the geometry just a tiny bit to better match my references.

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[Mike Amos]

[Bryan K]

@mike amos said:

Thanks!

It's getting there!

[Bryan K]

Overview.
Go back to the bottom of the previous page to see the rear engine details.

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[Bryan K]

Completed the rear engine struts. There is no right or wrong way to make these. There were no good references except that I could see it's sort of a wing-thing and the top profile is about "that" big.

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[Bryan K]

2 more views.

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[Bryan K]

Alright! On to the neck and bridge decks!

[L i am]

[Bryan K]

@l i am said:

:thumb:

Thanks!

[Mike Amos]

Very sharp but you put a lot into them. Definitely very nice to see mate.

[Bryan K]

Thanks Mike!

[Bryan K]

Very rough scale and block-out of neck and upper decks.

I now see I have a main hull problem as well. It is too vertical. Damn glad I left that extra fore to aft hull line in. I can change the geometry without messing up the previous work... too much. sigh

So fix the hull first and then move back to the neck and upper decks.

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[Mike Amos]

Lots of progress on this, going really nicely mate.

[Bryan K]

Thanks Mike!

[Bryan K]

Minor tweaks. Trying to tighten things up a little. Refining the shapes. Double checking lines and positions for the future details before I start on the upper decks shapes.

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