Saladin Class Destroyer

[Tallguy]

Hello! It's been a while, but I haven't been doing nothing. Here is my recently completed Saladin class destroyer from Franz Joseph's Star Trek Technical Manual.

Modeled and rendered in Blender. Textured in GIMP.

Enjoy!

 

[Albertese]

Nice! My only complaint would be that the lighting is a bit too dark and contrasty for a schematic type image. Other than that, this is gorgeous!

--Alex

 

[Psion]

Gorgeous work, Tallguy. It's a wonderful tribute to the original, but now you need to do more. The whole Technical Manual. All of it.

Well ... in a perfect world, at least.

I like the nacelle domes. How did you texture them? (Please feel free to get Blender-geeky with your answer!)

 

[Kaiser]

Awesome Saladin there

 

[blssdwlf]

Good stuff! Yeah, you should make a complete set!

 

[Tallguy]

Good stuff! Yeah, you should make a complete set!

That does seem to be a common request.

For them what missed it: http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=182060

 

[Forbin]

Fantastic!! I wish I could do that.

 

[Tallguy]

Fantastic!! I wish I could do that.

You ought to give it a shot. A ton of your modeling skills will transfer very nicely.

Gorgeous work, Tallguy. It's a wonderful tribute to the original, but now you need to do more. The whole Technical Manual. All of it.

Well ... in a perfect world, at least.

I like the nacelle domes. How did you texture them? (Please feel free to get Blender-geeky with your answer!)

Heh. Well, I'll work on the ships, certainly.

Matter energy sinks: It's not that geeky. It's a dome over a bunch of lights with a mirror behind it. The big difference comes from rendering it in Cycles. It looks cool but it's a big rendering hit. I still haven't gotten the Holy Grail of nacelle domes. Working on it.

 

[Tallguy]

U.S.S. Hannibal seeking out strange new worlds.

Modeled and rendered in Blender. Textures and background created in GIMP.

 

[Forbin]

Oh, I've effectively given up on 3D.

And I can't afford Photoshop.

 

[6079SmithW]

Very good job recreating the TOS destroyer. I like how you framed it in the tech manual style.

 

[Tallguy]

Oh, I've effectively given up on 3D.

And I can't afford Photoshop.

Try again. And GIMP is free.

 

[The Lensman]

Holy shit that's awesome! I love that you recreated a page from the old tech manual. I loved that thing as a kid in the pre-vcr days, since it was one of the few ways to get a Trek fix whenever you wanted.

Thanks for a wonderful trip down memory lane

 

[Forbin]

Oh, I've effectively given up on 3D.

And I can't afford Photoshop.

Try again. And GIMP is free.

I keep meaning to try Google Sketchup.

 

[Kaiser]

U.S.S. Hannibal seeking out strange new worlds.

Modeled and rendered in Blender. Textures and background created in GIMP.

Awesome!

 

[B.J.]

Oh, I've effectively given up on 3D.

And I can't afford Photoshop.

Try again. And GIMP is free.

Yep, I use GIMP and Inkscape to create just about everything I do, both free.

 

[Albertese]

I'm a Photoshop guy myself. I tried GIMP and it made me want to shoot someone. But it's been years since I handled Illustrator so maybe I ought to give Inkscape a spin before I commit to the big pro guns for vector stuff...

--Alex

 

[Wingsley]

I think your graphics and faithful recreation of the FJ Tech Manual page are superb.

The only thing I wish you would do differently is apply the same TOS-style block lettering on the hull for the ship's name and the NCC nomenclature on the nacelle.

 

[blssdwlf]

Oh, I've effectively given up on 3D.

And I can't afford Photoshop.

If you don't mind $20/month you could get the latest version of Photoshop thru Adobe's Creative Cloud service. (Actually, the plan is any 1 Adobe app can be installed and used a month at a time.) But GIMP is pretty good as well.

@Tallguy - nice approach shot for the destroyer

 

[Tallguy]

I think your graphics and faithful recreation of the FJ Tech Manual page are superb.

The only thing I wish you would do differently is apply the same TOS-style block lettering on the hull for the ship's name and the NCC nomenclature on the nacelle.

Thanks.

The registry is kind of a pick and choose. FJ did it a couple of different ways and neither of them really match the series. In the Technical Manual FJ used Microgramma for everything including the NCC. But I decided to go with where he had the most detail: The Star Trek Blueprints (aka the Booklet of General Plans). There he used the block lettering for the saucer NCC and Microgramma for everything else. That's the style I'm sticking to.