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Title: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: WickedZombie45 on June 08, 2004, 02:50:55 am
The Melak is finally online at Demon Renegade Studios. I developed a few new techniques while building this birdie and honed my skills on making organic shapes. I opted for a D'deridex style feather pattern since the reference pics from New Worlds didn't reveal much in that area. I would've added more texture details but I felt it wouldn't have seemed right in this case as the D'deridex and Melak are relatively bland and have a less-is-more style to them. The scale is a rough estimate going from the perspective views of it and the K'tinga in the movie clips, and the size of the ship's windows. The name "Death's Omen" is a slight reference to the so called "Curse of the Melak", which I think has now been broken - er, though the Apocalypse may be upon us now...







 
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Dizzy on June 08, 2004, 02:57:15 am
OOOHHHHH!

D/Ling that, Way nice WZ.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Fallen_Warrior on June 08, 2004, 02:57:29 am
wow W_Z you have done it again youve not only broke the curse but you made alot of people pleased me been one of them thank you very much and i look forward to the optional textures that you had in mind again thank you for her and great job im D/Ling now
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Dizzy on June 08, 2004, 03:04:25 am
is it not supposed to have an impulse drive on the aft part somewhere?  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on June 08, 2004, 05:28:43 am
Damn! That's what I get for going to bed instead of staying up all night, LOL.

I love the pics you posted too. Almost identical to the ST: New Worlds screen captures.

Fantastic job WZ45!

The curseof the Melak is dead and buried now!

Thanks again to SovereignEmpire for bring this bird to the attention of the SFC community.

KF
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Wolfsglen on June 08, 2004, 05:47:25 am
Beautiful  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: KOL_Grim on June 08, 2004, 05:59:03 am

Awesome looking ship WZ  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: ModelsPlease on June 08, 2004, 07:13:52 am
This is a true milestone !!!!!!!
 
-MP  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Azel on June 08, 2004, 08:30:29 am
Nice job mate!!!  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Marauth on June 08, 2004, 08:31:43 am
Fantastic, downloading now.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Kaenyne on June 08, 2004, 08:35:56 am
Must...have...computer...
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on June 08, 2004, 10:41:27 am
Now to put this into Centauri Vaughns Romulan Mission: Tomorrow's Enterprise.

BUMP for other folks to see.

KF
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: KtHyla on June 08, 2004, 12:39:41 pm
Damn good job! As an odd coincidence, I named the other late-TMP Warbird that I mentioned "Deathbird" ("Vas'D'Latta" or "Bird of Honourable Death"). Insane minds think alike!  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: WickedZombie45 on June 08, 2004, 12:45:39 pm
You could ask the same thing about the D'deridex, which also doesn't have any visible impulse engines. Technically, Andrew Probert just didn't have enough time to fully flesh out the warbird design and the model builders simply forgot to add the engines to the ship. Whoever designed the Melak obviously wanted to keep the ship in line with it's big sister and most likely didn't add them either.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: jimkirk on June 08, 2004, 02:02:06 pm
LOL Fallen Warrior I am not willing to make any row with ya about Enterprise. Now I've got a good time while listening to John Farnham's sons  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: jimkirk on June 08, 2004, 02:04:47 pm
BTW Wicked excellent work I just need to download her before impementing into my MOD (with your permission ofcourse ) A couple of notworthies for you:  

Keep it going...  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Fallen_Warrior on June 08, 2004, 02:07:51 pm
Quote:

LOL Fallen Warrior I am not willing to make any row with ya about Enterprise. Now I've got a good time while listening to John Farnham's sons  



thats good cuz i dont want to row either im just trying to work out enterprise because its so damn wrong
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: SovereignEmpire on June 08, 2004, 02:16:53 pm
 
That Didnt take that long, lol.  I look forward to playing this one.  The curse is truely broken.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: KtHyla on June 08, 2004, 04:09:14 pm
Back in the 80's when I was building the plastic kits for the D'Deridex, I just assumed the impulse engines were just the assemblies on the inside of the forward portion of the bottom hull. It seemed to make sense that there was no exhaust, since I figured it was reclamated to avoid laeving an exhaust trail. Not to mention the inward-facing flux chillers... The Warbird seemed to have a lot of details pointed torward stealth.

Aside from it's size, that is!
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Grim Reaper on June 08, 2004, 05:18:14 pm
You know w'ked i seem to be at a loss of words  to describe this beauty.... Let's settle for Wicked

Btw Is there any chance you'll find room in your schedule to make that tng 4 nacelled Accuser Azel drew 4 me?
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Captain Pierce on June 08, 2004, 05:19:37 pm
Although it obviously wasn't intentional (the D'Deridex being designed years before Star Trek VI), the lack of visible exhaust on the D'D certainly makes sense after the whole "tailpipe" scenario with Chang's uber-BoP...  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Grim Reaper on June 08, 2004, 05:38:44 pm
Quote:

Although it obviously wasn't intentional (the D'Deridex being designed years before Star Trek VI), the lack of visible exhaust on the D'D certainly makes sense after the whole "tailpipe" scenario with Chang's uber-BoP...    



indeed. That was a rather burning issue.

Btw does somebody have a good Rom BOP from TOS reference? Does she have visual exhausts?
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: MarianoDT on June 08, 2004, 06:19:58 pm
  As usual.........

Big thanks  

Mariano
 
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: KtHyla on June 08, 2004, 07:40:01 pm
Reaper: Yup, she does. I built a mod of the old BoP for Klingon Academy a couple of years ago, and she does indeed have two tailpipes! Bear in mind, during Balance of Terror the Enterprise could still track her, although barely...
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Mariner on June 08, 2004, 08:51:19 pm
So, what's next? Job application, making your own game, maybe even...

MAKING A MIRANDA!!!???

 

Seriously, will you ever redo the Miranda and her sisters (Saratoga and Soyuz,) becuase they now look extremely outdated compared to the Akula and the like. I know you hate making TMP textures, but all you need is a good microgamma font and you'd be good to go.


BTW, where IS a free microgamma font? It's probably THE font of TMP, because it's used almost any display or sticker from that time.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Marauth on June 08, 2004, 09:38:48 pm
They altered Microgramma slightly I believe, anyway, I don't see what was wrong with the fed font he was already using myself, seemed accurate enough to me.

Adds pleas to the Miranda begging:
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: DarkMatrix on June 09, 2004, 03:45:19 am
 

And Kf you at last change your MSN sig name  

DD
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: ModelsPlease on June 09, 2004, 04:45:58 am
Quote:

Now to put this into Centauri Vaughns Romulan Mission: Tomorrow's Enterprise.

BUMP for other folks to see.

KF  



KF sir might you be able to tell me where I might download that mission.  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Grim Reaper on June 09, 2004, 08:01:21 am
Quote:

Reaper: Yup, she does. I built a mod of the old BoP for Klingon Academy a couple of years ago, and she does indeed have two tailpipes! Bear in mind, during Balance of Terror the Enterprise could still track her, although barely...  



so hence the removal. I just love these loop holes that allow a semi good explenation
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Chris Jones on June 09, 2004, 10:23:54 am
Yes - I smell a new version of Tomorrow's Enterprise on the way.

 
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Kaenyne on June 09, 2004, 10:37:11 am
What is Tomorrow's Enterprise?
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on June 09, 2004, 11:21:02 am
Quote:

What is Tomorrow's Enterprise?  



Tomorrow's Enterprise is Centauri Vaughn SFC: OP script that takes place before the TNG Episode Yesterday's Enterprise. It is his take on the Romulan attack on Nerendra III and the USS Enterprise C.  It should be in one of Chris Jone's latest TNG mods for OP somewhere.

Naturally, I have been using TMP models to have a new flavor to these missions, LOL. Ulysses = Galaxy, Lexington = Ambassador, K' teremny = K'vort and  Melaks are the warbirds, LOL.

I still need to tweak the Borg stats to reflect Rod O' Neal's version of the Tholians and Andromedans..

I have replaced the Cardassians with Tholians, Borg with Andromedans and Dominion with ISC... all just in time for Centauri Vaughn's newest set of scripts... I think  I'll have to do it all again....

At any rate the Melak is a fine ship and CV did some GREAT missions.

Qapla!

KF
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Kaenyne on June 09, 2004, 11:40:36 am
Cool! Thanks for giving me the skinny!
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: WickedZombie45 on June 09, 2004, 08:06:57 pm
What's wrong with the font I'm using now? "Starfleet Bold Extended", as far as I know, is as accurate as one can get without forking over money for anything else (if there even is anything else).

I can't help but laugh when people ask me if I'll ever redo some of my past ships - if you guys only knew what I have stashed away....
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Captain Pierce on June 09, 2004, 08:09:11 pm
Well, if we knew, then technically they wouldn't be "stashed away" anymore...  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: SovereignEmpire on June 09, 2004, 08:31:06 pm
Stashed away hmmm...  Could there be some new Imperial Starships on the Way? Maybe a Super Star Destroyer or two...  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Rogue on June 09, 2004, 08:42:39 pm
Stashed away? Is there a Decatur in there somewhere? An  evil  TMP era Decatur?    
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Marauth on June 09, 2004, 08:59:13 pm
So why do you torture us by not releasing some of these things you have 'stashed away'.

Oh BTW while I'm posting, do you happen to have the blank saucer textures from your Ulysses, I'm working on a carrier kitbash of it and found that the connie blanks have different grids and don't line up etc.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: WickedZombie45 on June 09, 2004, 09:48:36 pm
Ulysses Blanks  
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Mariner on June 09, 2004, 10:22:40 pm
Nothing's wrong with teh font. I just assumed that, since you hate making TMP textures, maybe a part of the problem is because you couldn't get a microgamma font for the hull text, and so you had to use SF Bold for everything (besides the saucer, which is the only part on the model that uses it). But ofcourse, you probably have more problems with those textures than that...

Anyway, what's going on with that Galaxy you were making a while back. Last time I saw it, it was a white clay model (on SFC3.net)...
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: WickedZombie45 on June 09, 2004, 11:57:15 pm
Registries are the easiest parts, well, for me anyway. I use Starfleet Bold all the time because that's what a bulk of the registries require, and I simply don't bother with switching to a different font for the hull and engines. Starfleet engineers obviously have too much time on their hands when it comes to ship labels.
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: Marauth on June 10, 2004, 08:43:13 am
W00tage, thanx for the blanks WZ, got a lot of ships based on your Ulysses that need these

What I think is more of a concern with Starfleet engineers is that they spend so much time painting bits of the ships blue and green to make them pretty
Title: Re: Another bird leaves the nest....
Post by: DookeyKing on June 11, 2004, 10:50:58 am
Gotta send this back up to the top.