First attempt at ship building C&C more than welcome.

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:38 am

Looking any better?

Skull13 · Post by **Skull13** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:06 am

An excellent use of those section 12s. I couldn't have done any better myself. Considering that my first ship was before I discovered mirroring, I would say that this is a good job.

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:16 am

I decided to call it quits on the small corvette and upscale to something much bigger.

There will be WIP pics up in a short while.

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:22 am

Asha-D wrote:I decided to call it quits on the small corvette and upscale to something much bigger.

There will be WIP pics up in a short while.

Good never keep doing the same ship for too long, will make shipbuilding boring.(it did in my case.)

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:41 am

Here it is.

The Vampire capital ship, pride of the fleet:

Currently weaponless.

gopa4 · Post by **gopa4** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:47 am

Those wing things, are really repetitive. But I think it looks interesting, but the plain green isn't attractive to me.

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:24 am

Any suggestions on how to break it up some spikes coming off the rear of the wings perhaps.

gopa4 · Post by **gopa4** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:17 am

I'm no expert, but I would try different piece combos. Or cut the wings off and bring them in more narrow and closer to the body.

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:18 pm

I would actually flip the entire ship around(back to front) It would look like some sort of crossbow.
Otherwise I just hate those wings, to repedative and they don't fit the more square shape of the ship.

So a scrap those wings
b flip that ship!

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:31 am

I'd rather round off the body than delete the wings entirely, they took a fair while to put together i've added a little more but i'll see what I can do.

Another question, is there a reason why you can't rotate demeter pods?

Update:

Swamp Fox · Post by **Swamp Fox** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:38 am

Asha-D wrote:Another question, is there a reason why you can't rotate demeter pods?

That's odd. They rotate just fine on my end.

Also, there's a mess of layering errors all along the centerline.

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:01 am

Thanks for spotting that, it must have happened when I mirrored the craft during the colour change.

Siber · Post by **Siber** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:45 pm

I think this is a case of too much too fast. Those first two ships are great offerings for a beginning. Simply sublime, particularly compared to some of the other stuff I've seen around here. However, that big ship... it's really not on the same level. There are some interesting pieces, but there are large areas that are very very dull. The wings and the main core of the ship are, simply put, bad. I highly, highly recommend cutting back and trying middle steps before diving headfirst into large ships. Take it from a guy who's tried to make a similar jump and rejected the results.

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:13 pm

As I said the front of the big ship is the only part that is interesting.
The wings just don't fit, and or so repedative it just isn't the same style.

If I where you I would make one ship out of the back and another out of the front.(The back is more alien like, while the front is much more industrial looking.)

Asha-D · Post by **Asha-D** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:44 pm

I might start a new ship soon. But I don't intend to give up on this one though even If it just gets put on hold for a while.

I agree the wings are repetetive but I couldn't come up with another way to make the curve I wanted without using those pieces.