Re-Imagined K'tinga/D7
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I have to agree... I really loved this when it was monochromatic... but once the over-emphasized panel accents were in place, it really ruined the effect for me.
SUBTLE is better. The TMP Klingon ship worked, because it was very, very subtle. Qo'nos 1 was okay, as well, because it was subtle. The TMP 1701 was subtle... you get the idea.
Go with big, bold coloring, and it doesn't look like a ship anymore, it looks like a toy.
Remember... color variation is less detectable by the human eye the further away from your viewing object you are. So, you model "scale" in part by making colors as similar as possible while still maintaining detail.
SUBTLE is better. The TMP Klingon ship worked, because it was very, very subtle. Qo'nos 1 was okay, as well, because it was subtle. The TMP 1701 was subtle... you get the idea.
Go with big, bold coloring, and it doesn't look like a ship anymore, it looks like a toy.
Remember... color variation is less detectable by the human eye the further away from your viewing object you are. So, you model "scale" in part by making colors as similar as possible while still maintaining detail.
I'd like to see more colorful ships actually, including something like dazzle camouflage.
Dazzle camo works well enough for messing with people trying to visually sight ships on the water, it's good for breaking up silhouettes and making it hard to count ships or discern their orientation, but any kind of electronic sensing strategy would render it a useless waste of paint. I guess if your admiral is really into flashy paint schemes, (not that there's anything wrong with that) otherwise is looks silly on a spaceship.
--Alex
--Alex
Vastly improved... but if it were me, I'd even go more subtle for the "highlight plates." Maybe make a 50/50 intermediate tone between what you used and your "base hull color."This is what I'm going with, the red just didn't work out.
You can make a few highlights in "reddish" but I'd go more along the lines of "deep blood" or "rust" and I'd only make them very subtle details... warning marking stripes, junction boxes, etc.
But, it's your baby. Just giving my 2cents...
Much better with the green instead of the red. I was starting to think it had the garish look of an old Romulan warbird, with the red. (Though granted, the Romulan color scheme is different.)
The green looks better.
The green looks better.
If I may offer a suggestion out of the box here... what if you used a dark shade of red not to go with the actual hull patterns, but as a stylized splash of blood? You know, like say a wolf whose mouth and face is slathered red after he'd slain a foe. If the romulans can go with looking like birds, the klingons can go with looking like blood-thirsty beasts straight out of combat, ready for more. 
While I, personally, have no problem with that sort of thing for small combat craft (fighters, etc)... it would feel "silly" to me to see that on a large capital ship. But that's just me...If I may offer a suggestion out of the box here... what if you used a dark shade of red not to go with the actual hull patterns, but as a stylized splash of blood? You know, like say a wolf whose mouth and face is slathered red after he'd slain a foe. If the romulans can go with looking like birds, the klingons can go with looking like blood-thirsty beasts straight out of combat, ready for more.
