Defiant Bridge - Sketchup...

[lewisniven]

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...

 

[Albertese]

Nice!. Better than I can do!

--Alex

 

[lewisniven]

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

 

[Ptrope]

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

 

[lewisniven]

progress so far:

 

[lewisniven]

ok gonna leave it there for tonight...

 

[Patrickivan]

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!

 

[BK613]

very nice, indeed!

 

[Patrickivan]

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!

 

[jerriecan]

That is absolutely brilliant work!

 

[lewisniven]

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.

 

[lewisniven]

further updates...

and a crappy attempt at a photomatch:

 

[lewisniven]

A quick photoshop test;

 

[lewisniven]

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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[Solarbaby]

very impressive!

 

[lewisniven]

very impressive!

thanks!

Lewis.

 

[-SS-]

Woah.
Nice renders.