1701 Enterprise TOS build

[aalenfae]

This was posted recently on the Star Trek website. Seemed relevant to your work.

 

[Wingsley]

Hey, Madkoifish!

Great work on building your own Connie from "scratch". Great images thus far.

Will you be including the outer hull lettering, pennants and other outer hull color details? Also: will you be adding surface details like phaser and/or torpedo ports?

 

[Madkoifish]

Nearing the end for this project. VARIOUS wip renders.

 

[Albertese]

Colors look good. And I love your nacelle dome effect. Looks great!

--Alex

 

[JES]

As always, it is a pleasure to see your stuff Madkoi.

Albertese already said it, but the bussard caps look astounding.

 

[StarCruiser]

Looking very good!

 

[spockboy]

I don't know what it is, but your stuff has it's own wonderful look. There is a subtlety, detail, and reality that stands out above other people's work.
Well done!

Spockboy

 

[Bernard Guignard]

Sweet Great work there

 

[Madkoifish]

Thanks guys, the bussards are thanks in part to physical modelers and refs I found online. I pretty much built them like they were in the real 11ft model. As for the look it is all surfacing. That and likely some of it is sticking a AO shader in a composite with the diffuse channel as a cheat right now to show the detail. Some of the WIP renders I did turn this off so you might see it where things like those fins next to the deflector do not really pop.

I have to say this is probably one of the HARDEST models I have made. Every single object had to be rechecked and compared to at least 2 or 3 sources before I could move forward. I guess that is why I usually stick to non canon designs. Going to be great hair-loss and ulcers when I do the D7 or ROM BOP. wwww


Update time slow going as I have to keep hunting fonts as the ship contains 3 so far one of which was a surprise as those waterline markings are NOT the registry font. Nearing being done mostly small details and cutting of decal like things onto the nacelles etc.

I think the list is

• the side lights or ION pod thing
• nav lights behind the shuttlebay sensor dome and tailpipe decal
• Shuttle bay doors
• Registry markings on saucer
• nacelle decals and reg
• swoop thing and red square on nacelle
• Tuning of room lights and making the left side unique.
• oh those nav lights on the side of the saucer!
• and then texture mapping it all and applying proper materials to bits.

And that will complete phase 1 of this project.
Note nacelle caps are blotted to save on render times.

Full ship passes







misc WIP closeups

 

[Madkoifish]

Oh just noticed some detail images didn't get posted on the prior update.
misc detail images mostly dealing with those small decals and re-spinning to accommodate the grids and saucer stuff.

 

[B.J.]

Wonderful work!

I have to say this is probably one of the HARDEST models I have made. Every single object had to be rechecked and compared to at least 2 or 3 sources before I could move forward. I guess that is why I usually stick to non canon designs. Going to be great hair-loss and ulcers when I do the D7 or ROM BOP. wwww

^ This right here is the reason I never attempted any blueprints or schematics of the Enterprise. The perfectionist part of me would go batty!

 

[Madkoifish]

Well with that, I think the modeling is done. On to texturing her.

 

[StarCruiser]

It looks that good and he hasn't even textured it yet!

 

[Madkoifish]

UVW hell.

 

[Tallguy]

Do you know how many models I build that clip along at a good pace, get to texturing, and then die?

Nice job.

 

[Madkoifish]

hahah well I am the one who used to cheat as much as possible when it came to texturing, still will if I can get away with it.

 

[Madkoifish]

I am pretty much done now just some small fine tuning stuff left that likely wont make too large of a change in the overall appearance. Do ignore the over saturated saucer colors as I had cloned the diffuse map into the gloss color slot at some stage.















I will upload final renders of her soon.

 

[Sibyl]

You've done her proud.

 

[MadMan1701A]

Very nice.

-Ricky

 

[Madkoifish]

A few quickies.



They are just flat diffuse renders no lighting passes etc. Mostly a test to see how the ship reacts to efx passes.

It shows at least the saucer maps need a little work still.


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