Diary of a madman!

[boredjedi]

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Just a small update. Still working on the trim. Should have all the trim done by tomorrow morning.

[boredjedi]

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Trim work is so tedious. I finished the top trim and gave a quick good rendering to see if I did it smooth and catch any misaligned vertexes. Nothing shows that better than a shiny smooth silver exterior. I didn't crash this time :)

[boredjedi]

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Funny, I can pretty much do quite a bit with 3ds max but for some reason the trim work I was unable to get a handle on. I think I figured it out though. Here's a sample of what I've done so far and think it looks good just needs more tweaking and shaping.

[boredjedi]

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Oh, that is so damn cool.

Especially the 3-D tail insignia.
God is in the details.

Yar, all this work and detail really does pay off in the end. But man I'm darn tired. Got lots done today and have one more image before I finally head off to bed. I finished up the detail on the tail insignia and I think it came out pretty good.

[Ultra Magnus]

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Oh, that is so damn cool.

Especially the 3-D tail insignia.
God is in the details.

[boredjedi]

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I swear I didn't mean to do it. I only wanted to take her out for a spin

[boredjedi]

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Also Working on the tail insignia

[boredjedi]

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Okay now I'm happy. All trace of the old rib cage is now gone.

[boredjedi]

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That's looking really good! Keep it up

Thanks and I am. I actually fell asleep in my chair again working on it. After many starts and restarts and redos I think this pretty much nails it. Looks cleaner and cleaner with each time I muck with it. Going back to work on the red and white trim work today. Woot!



This ship screams SPEED!

[DawnStar]

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That's looking really good! Keep it up

[boredjedi]

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Well small update. Seems the easiest way is not the best way with 3ds max. I kept crashing the program with memory errors and such. I had to create each beam separate all the horizontal and vertical beams. I thought I had done the count right but it seems, looking at the image below, the spaces between the beams are a bit off. I was even crashing the program trying to put the attachment holes into the beams as I wanted to in the above pics. Seriously, how's a guy suppose to do highly detailed models when the program can't even handle it. Sheesh. Well anyway here's the latest of my progress with the new beam structure. Looks a lot better than it did before and more like the actual one. Still needs a bit of smoothing and adjusting which I'm doing right now.

[boredjedi]

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The beauty is in the detailing. Based on the first high rez screen shot of the airship the beams shall look like this

[boredjedi]

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Holy crap it works!!! Mind you I didn't find a tutorial precisely on doing this it was something completely different but the idea hit me if I tried it on the rib cage. In this case as a test, I created just a cross beam which I copied and attached a few times and then bent it 360 degrees. Now that's the ease I was looking for and I can put all the details on the one section before doing the process of copy and attaching. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if that's how they actually made the rib cage for the airship since the rib looks to be of one constructions with attachment holes to make it look as if it's made of the separate elements.

[Ponycat]

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[Mr_Gazpacho]

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