Defiant Bridge - Sketchup...

Discussion in 'Fan Art' started by lewisniven, Apr 8, 2012.

  1. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Been teaching myself Google Sketchup over the last few days so made a start modelling the Defiant bridge, so far so good really. A lot of this is guess work, as I cant find any exact dimensions for the set but I think I'm pretty close. Just working off as many photos of it as I can really. I'll keep updating as I go...

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  2. Albertese

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    Nice!. Better than I can do!

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  3. lewisniven

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    The console section is coming together now. The blue cushioning round the edges is proving a pain though, I may come back to that.

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  4. Ptrope

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    Very nice! I still need to learn this. You're getting some great results so far; looking forward to the completed version.
     
  5. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    progress so far:

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  6. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    ok gonna leave it there for tonight...

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  7. Patrickivan

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    Hey! This is looking swell! I'm also looking forward to the end result. And can't wait for you to start the engineering room! ;)
     
  8. BK613

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    very nice, indeed!
     
  9. Patrickivan

    Patrickivan Fleet Captain Newbie

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    Oh dude- you should copy photo textures from the defiant bridge and use that in your SU!!! That would be sweet. You can have all the panels too!
     
  10. jerriecan

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    That is absolutely brilliant work!
     
  11. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback. I'm hitting the difficult bit now, curved surfaces! Cutting the lighting ports out of the curves section round the ceiling is going to be a nightmare I can tell, I've started drawing it, but skectup wont extrude from curved surfaces at all so not sure how I'm going to handle that one, watch this space.

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  12. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    further updates...

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    and a crappy attempt at a photomatch:

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  13. lewisniven

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    A quick photoshop test;

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  14. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    I've not updated this thread in a little while but I've still been beavering away at it. I'm having to re-do a lot of the ceiling sections, hence them being gone at the moment. Here's where I am so far...

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    very impressive!
     
  19. lewisniven

    lewisniven Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    thanks! :)

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    Woah.
    Nice renders.