NuTrek Tech Manual

[MadMan1701A]

So, I'm working with Vance on this.

Here are the ships I have so far for the tech manual pages...

The Saladin (Hermes looks just like this, but no upper phasers or torpedoes)...

The Ptolemy...

And of course, Enterprise...

I think these are pretty neat. They are very fast and easy to make, too.

 

[Albertese]

Wow. Yeah, the more I look at various JJ rearrangements the more I'm convinced I like it all except the cruiser's 2nd hull.

--Alex

 

[Timo]

Those would probably be 2250s refits of Saladin/Hermes and Ptolemy, with the original 2220s incarnations looking more like the Kelvin...

Wanna do the Kelvin generation of these ships next?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[MadMan1701A]

I do need to dust off my Kelvin model... I was never really happy with the textures I made for it.

 

[Praetor]

Ah these are quite spiffy.

 

[Captain_Cash]

Oh! these are fantastic!

 

[MadMan1701A]

Oh! these are fantastic!

Thanks.

I posting these in the Federation thread, but they should go here as well.

This one turned out good.

Since the original Federation had a different Primary Hull than the Enterprise, I thought this one should too. It's about have borrowed from my Venture Star, but I thought it would look appropriate.

I also made the Secondary Hull about 10% bigger, to scale a little better with the new Saucer.

It fits right in along with the others, I think.

 

[Praetor]

Ah, nice to see that got sorted out so well.

 

[Albertese]

Dang. That dreadnaught is sexy. Puts the old one to shame.

--Alex

 

[largo]

win!

 

[Rattrap]

Those honkin' huge nacelles really work on a battlewagon. Can't wait to see where this project goes.

 

[judge alba]

madman that dreadnought is really great. i hope i can get that good soon

 

[MadMan1701A]

madman that dreadnought is really great. i hope i can get that good soon

Thanks.

I've been plugging away at Blender for about 5 years... Only in the past 6 months has something "Clicked" and I 've started figuring out what's going on.

You'll get there.

 

[Albertese]

Blender, eh? I have Blender 2.47 on my machine but I can't make heads or tails of it! Do you know of any good tutorials that tech me how to build starships? I'm sure once I have the basics down that'll I'll be able to muddle through the rest. But I can't even seem to get started!

--Alex

 

[MadMan1701A]

Blender, eh? I have Blender 2.47 on my machine but I can't make heads or tails of it! Do you know of any good tutorials that tech me how to build starships? I'm sure once I have the basics down that'll I'll be able to muddle through the rest. But I can't even seem to get started!

--Alex

Well, I use 2.45, for a couple of reasons; the first being the fact that when you enter a new primitive, it aligns it to your current view. In the newer version, it always assigns it a rotational value of 0, so you always have to rotate it to the direction you want.

Here are some good tutorials, that I host on my site...

http://madshipyard.com/tutorials.htm

The textbook at the bottom is especially good. It really starts off with the basics.