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Offline Starfox1701

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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #140 on: June 27, 2011, 04:11:17 am »
He coming along nicely 8)
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #141 on: June 29, 2011, 12:37:35 am »
The underside of the wing compared to the Ktinga. I also want to add something to break up the long black patch at the back.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #142 on: June 29, 2011, 08:39:59 am »
The nacelles and pylons are complete with shading and lightmaps.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #143 on: June 29, 2011, 10:05:26 am »
Are these windows the right size? I'm trying to go from memory of her scale compared to a Ktinga.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #144 on: June 29, 2011, 02:32:04 pm »
Quote from: The Northern Star on June 29, 2011, 10:05:26 am
Are these windows the right size? I'm trying to go from memory of her scale compared to a Ktinga.

Scaled window-wise.. it's around 1/3rd the size of the K'Tinga?  Looks like a smaller ship this way for sure.. :)
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #145 on: July 04, 2011, 12:46:36 am »
A little progress on the command pod.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #146 on: July 04, 2011, 12:53:09 am »
lookin good ;)
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #147 on: July 05, 2011, 03:21:47 pm »
I think that's it for the Command Pod, I darkened the section between the sensor spires? to lighten the neck in game. I think it should make it look a little meaner, maybe like the "head" of the ship is turned-down slightly.

Here's a few pics of the state of things presently. I am doing this guy in a way that perpetuates the original story about the creation of the Klingon Bird of Prey. From what I can recall (been a while since I read the book), Leonard Nimoy planned for the bad guys in ST III:TSFS to be Romulan and he spoke with the effects department about how he felt it was important for their ship to be "scary-looking" and have the appearance of a "swooping hawk or eagle". A cardboard mock-up of essentially the BOP was delivered to him and the studio said that because some costuming, make-up, sets, props, etc. already existed for the Klingons; they wanted the enemy in the movie to be Klingon. Nimoy then decide to use the fantastic design that had already been delivered and that it could be explained as the ships that the Klingons received from the Romulans in exchange for the D7s that were seen in TOS. FASA took the idea farther by suggesting the Klingon officers and crew were reluctant to serve aboard these "Romulan" ships until after successful and intrepid missions such as the Genesis Incident illustrated the value of an invisible hit and run vessel. I then see the Deathstalker Destroyer as the result of this knowledge reaching Klingon ship builders and influencing their efforts. It is definitely very Klingon with outboard warp engines instead of inboard and very Klingon markings with no Romulan bird feathers. I am aware that Enterprise screwed that line of thought with their own BOPs and JJ's reference in "Star Trek" to "Klingon Warbirds" doesn't help either, I'm just a stubborn Dutchman with my own perspective on what pieces of the lore to consider real and which not.  ;)
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #148 on: July 05, 2011, 03:26:25 pm »
For some reason the original post missed these two pics.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #149 on: July 06, 2011, 02:03:09 am »
nice ;)
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #150 on: July 06, 2011, 10:27:50 pm »
I like what you are doing with this and the back story is really good. Never did like the KBOPs... I will be readding this to my fleets when it is done.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #151 on: July 07, 2011, 02:33:00 am »
Totaly beautifull work! I wish i had that kind of texture skills you have here  :thumbsup:
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #152 on: July 08, 2011, 02:37:34 am »
Been burning a little midnight oil as it were.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #153 on: July 08, 2011, 05:13:05 am »
me like ;D
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #154 on: July 08, 2011, 12:30:52 pm »
A little more progress . . . the upper hull is almost complete. It looks like I'll have to stick to a plain red warp core ejection plate, because of the mirrored textures I haven't been able to get a Klingon Trefoil there.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #155 on: July 08, 2011, 12:46:49 pm »
Blargh - we need to teach you to unwrap, these limitations would drive me up a wall - can't imagine what they're doing for you.
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #156 on: July 08, 2011, 01:45:21 pm »
Quote from: FoaS_XC on July 08, 2011, 12:46:49 pm
Blargh - we need to teach you to unwrap, these limitations would drive me up a wall - can't imagine what they're doing for you.

Sounds like you need to do another tutorial FoaS.. there's a lot of people that could use it.  (I can unmap to a degree, but could definitely use more instruction on it as an example).  ;)
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #157 on: July 08, 2011, 08:39:09 pm »
Quote from: The Northern Star on June 20, 2011, 12:38:52 am
I agree, this project, the D2 and the Romulan cruiser that I was playing with could likely all benefit from re-mapping. I have, however, thus far only been able to paint a few pretty pictures. This one's particularly interesting because the light maps existed before I started. I intend to look at the Material editor in G-Max and see if there are any differences in the settings between the ones that show and those that don't.

Otherwise, the underside is stuck about as shown. There is a little overlap on the edgs of the wings, but it's not too obvious.

Did I miss this being released? the bottom does not need to be uber detailed. I'm starting to smell Federation nail polish on this and suspect that is the delay for me not having this in my inventory...

I'd really like to have this kitbashed as my KCV with two Hajwe KFT pods under her.

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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #158 on: July 08, 2011, 09:45:10 pm »
Sorry you missed it KF, the thread's gotten a little long perhaps. It's at BC here: http://sfc.battleclinic.com/docks/view.php?id=4861
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Re: It's been done but . . .
« Reply #159 on: July 10, 2011, 03:07:08 pm »
Quote from: The Northern Star on July 08, 2011, 09:45:10 pm
Sorry you missed it KF, the thread's gotten a little long perhaps. It's at BC here: http://sfc.battleclinic.com/docks/view.php?id=4861


I remember now. When it was released I downloaded this on my desktop PC and it died soon after ... I hadn't put it on my laptop yet. All set now Awesome retexture.

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