That looks amazing! For a moment I swore it was a screencap until I noticed the lighted windows on the port side that were not finished like that on the 11 footer. Excellent!
A small amount of progress. Made some changes to my temporary textures and added more of the windows and ports. The spires on the warp domes are now gold. The "glass" textures no longer makes those fireflies. It's a mix of transparent and metal. The angles I selected where based off of pictures taken by the original effects crew when they got the 11 foot model, and an image from the second pilot. I should get to the banners today on the Engineering Hull and perhaps the warp engines. Then I hope I can start to texture.
I'm not up on my "newly discovered at the Smithsonian" but is the dorsal really that blue? It's a total Jefferies move. He did the same thing on the D-7. Looking great, of course.
Thank you, my friend! As for how blue the neck was for the first pilot, it's hard for me to tell, after all these years. There is a GREAT variability in the colors of photographs from that era. And, of course, most of them have been "fixed" over the years. I'm kind of going by these.
You and me both, my friend. I got this in a reply to a post of mine on Facebook. I'm thrilled that Mr. Kerr volunteered the information.
It is amazing! All this new info coming to some light. I remember reading that the tos rom BoP was grey overall dorsally, but ventrally, she was grey only on the leading section up until the BoP decal. The tail-end of the decal was white or a much lighter shade of grey. Or something to that effect. I might have that in reverse (leading to the decal is white, with trailing the decal as grey ventrally)
Yes, I remember something of that too. Once I'm done with this particular project, I'll work on the Klingon and Romulan ships as well. Again, I'd like them as close as I can get to the originals.
Aye that would be epic! TOS BoP is one of my absolute favorite ships in all of SciFi...so simple, yet so effective use of shapes
The Klingon colors are easy. AMT built the model for Star Trek at twice the scale of their kit. They finished both idendically. One was used in filming and one was not. The film used one has since been repainted. The other one still has its original paint. It was not gray, it has variations of purple, blue, and green. For the TMP Klingon ship, they made molds from one of the two models for Phase II and then when it became a movie, they scaled it up twice again. Then they added all the surface details.
Here's a quick test of two items: 1) The placement of the pennants on the side of the ship. 2) A new (and faster) method for me to put my credits on images. I'm fairly happy! Open to suggestions.
It's weird that something about this is saying 3 instead of 11 to me. But I'm sure I'm wrong. Must be the angle.
Different material settings, different materials, different render settings ... and some of the registries and pennants.
I did something to the side image for fun last night. Same image with some desaturation, higher contrast, and simulated film grain.