Weeeell, it's been awhile since I've been around; I used to go by the name crimsonflame, but made a new account due to a number of reason.
Namely, I forgot the password and the e-mail account has been deactivated. And also, it's a silly name. (Honestly, I don't know what young me was thinking.)
Anyway, story time could go on, but I'm sure that can wait till after the ships.
I've been alternating work between 3, as of yet unnamed, ships and will be posting them in the order of which I started working on them while giving a brief outline of my methods and thought-processes for each ship under its respective picture (For future reference and to stave off boredom).
Depending on how lazy I'm feeling, I'll update this first post with progress as I complete the ships. Edit: Yeah... Too lazy. Sorry guys.
Ship 1
The first and arguably most complete among the three. I decided to stick with a familiar shape since I haven't made any ships in forever.
The orange "shields" used to be achieved with fake aegis which Anna rightfully pointed out looked quite ugly. Instead, they're now low-alpha stock sections of relatively matching shapes. This ship also marks my first foray into the use of windows and additive blended blobs for shine.
Note: I learnt the hard way, but windows are NOT doodads, which have been painstakingly arranged. I'm not sure where the original source is, but I got mine by downloading one of Anna's ships that used them.
Overall, I'm relatively satisfied with how it turned out.
Ship 2
Having done a flying/floating shield, I wanted to make something that looked fast. In its construction, I made the pleasant discovery that an orange section with a low-alpha fake aegis gives a nice vermilion glow. Not really much else to say about this one.
To do:
1)
I think the back is a bit plain so I'll look into that tomorrow.
2)
Aside from that, I'll be touching up the glows and adding reflections.
Ship 3 (Station 1?)
For this one, I wanted something that I could use the vermilion glows from the previous ship on that was also sort of radial. Unfortunately, the nature of having radial struts meant that the heat sinks had to be demoted downwards (at least in this case), only allowing a less spectacular glow that I'd have liked. Again, I'm bad with wings so I went through about 5 iterations before I settled on this pair which I'm quite happy with. At the moment, I'm working towards something along the lines of communication satellite + interstellar death cannon.
To do:
1)
Add some thrusters to the front of the wings because even death cannons have to turn.
2)
Maybe make the cannon bigger and more menacing. Might forgo the triple-barrel layout for a different one. Also, haven't decided if it's a laser cannon or a kinetic one.
3)
Light it up like a Christmas tree! (Albeit a monochromatic one.)
Overall to do:
1) Name ships.
2) Attempt
bigger ship(s) and asymmetrical ships.
I don't think all my posts will be this long. It's probably just all the years of not posting spilling out in one go.
C&C would be appreciated. Otherwise, just drop by to say hi. Not that I'm telling you how to live your life or anything (DO IT!
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