Topic: Hydran HMS Heroic for download (Read 3800 times)

James Formo · « **on:** July 07, 2003, 02:25:12 am »

um early pic- Havn't started on textures- but at least its purple. I have about 16 mini projects so this won't be done for awhile.

Its my 1st non-Fed ship from scratch.

Editing this so the d/l link and latest pics are on the 1st page as well as at the end.

Ships in pics available at my Yahoo club. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfcmodels/ look under files.

Reverend · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2003, 08:21:12 am »

Thats a wonderful place to start James... I always like the Hydrans, they always had class with ship design. You reflect said class perfectly- keep up the good work!!

James Formo · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2003, 01:34:38 pm »

Thanks Reverend. Well I am still working on this cause its kinda fun. I did up 4 different base textures. This pic may be the one I will use. It is darker and gives the ship more attitude than the others.

If all goes well I intend to replace all the stock ones with a fleet based on this 1st one here.

James Formo · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2003, 08:38:06 pm »

This is pretty much done. I am not happy with the impulse engines in back though. It looked better orange. Only that does not fit the Hydran color scheme. This is meant to be TNG era btw.

So minor tweaking, hardpoints and attempt at I-maps and the release not far off

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2003, 08:48:12 pm »

Wonderful work!

What a great design for TNG Hydrans.. Kudos for adding another fine non-Federation ship to the arsenal of non-Federation players.

Nice textures too!

Qapla!

KF

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2003, 09:36:47 pm »

Man, it's coming along really nice. The "small tweaks" made a huge difference

Bubba91873 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2003, 08:18:08 am »

I look forward to the release!

Azel · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2003, 08:39:04 am »

Hey Great Job James!!!
I like the shape( can I steel...uh Use it:) )
I like the Hydrans Too

James Formo · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2003, 05:46:35 pm »

Thanks guys. Its all done up

Get it under files at my Yahoo club. The zip is called heroic.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfcmodels/

sandman69247 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2003, 06:14:30 pm »

Very nice Hydran, dude! One question though? Why are nacelles on that Ambassador on sideways?

Back to you Hydran...very good job, wish I had the cajones to do a non-fed...everyone gets so uptight about feds and whether it looks canon, I've been afraid of doing something that would get a "WTF!?!?" response...but no more I say! Next pre-TOS I do will be either Klink or Rommy!

Azel · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2003, 06:17:55 pm »

That my friend is a Renessaince class(ambassador variant)

Azel · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2003, 06:30:42 pm »

Hey sandman

"wish I had the cajones to do a non-fed..."
"Forgetabout'it"....I love to create non-canon stuff...feds, Roms, Klings...whatever

just remeber the words of Arnold Swarzenegger in Predator "Do IT!!! Do It Now!!!"
When you feel uptight about a design

James Formo · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2003, 12:02:02 am »

Thanks Sandman. I like your pre TOS stuff. Bring on the Klinks and Romulans

Ok- 2nd ship in the TNG Hydran fleet. A fast destroyer. The hull is new. Same basic textures. Its not quite ready yet.

My idea is to replace the stock ff,dd,cl,ca,cva and dn. So I need 6 ships. I want at least 3 different designs, then 3 kitbashes.
1 bash of each design. This dd is a bash of the Heroic. So may be a while before the next one, but look for them to all be released to my yahoo club. Then maybe later I might send them to SFU.

Rhaz · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2003, 05:25:51 pm »

Sweet!

starforce2 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 09, 2003, 06:35:48 pm »

anyone else unable to download from fromo's group? Can't figure out if it's me or yahoo.

E_Look · « **Reply #15 on:** July 09, 2003, 10:10:35 pm »

I got it using the link on this thread. In my opinion, it's probably Yahoo. Maybe in a couple of hours, it'll clear up and you can d/l again.

James Formo · « **Reply #16 on:** July 09, 2003, 10:33:50 pm »

Yup E_Look is right, its yahoo. I tested it a bit ago and it was fine. One thing. I was d/l ships from another yahoo club. I got 4 zips, then it send something like max download used up. So Yahoo may limit how many megs can be d/l per 24 hours on a site. I want to get some of these over to SFU. But that will be about 2 weeks away still.

Oh and E_Look I will get the Hydran up for SFC1- may need to start a new club for that

Did up the hff ship. It follows the stock ship very close. The weapons pods will be readded higher poly. The grey texture on the side will be traditional Hydran blue. I will also be able to tweak this for a fighter and a shuttle as it is real low poly.

The ff and dd class should both be up by the weekend. Gotta add Hardpoints and whatnot. Ok here the pic of the ff.
I will remove some pics later to help the page load faster.

sandman69247 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 10, 2003, 12:44:52 am »

Yeah, I forgot that yahell has a d/l limit for the groups.

James if it's a matter of time, tell me which ones you want up at SFU and I'll u/l for you. Really not much trouble, just need some info like orig. creator, a short description, url for pic etc.

Great work on the Hydrans, haven't been many models done for them and it's nice to see someone giving them some much needed attention.

James Formo · « **Reply #18 on:** July 10, 2003, 10:41:28 pm »

Thanks Sandman. The only ones ready are the hcl and hff at my club. They are the only ones with readme and hp's.

The readme has the credit info and for desription you could just have TNG era Hydran with the class. AS far as URL for pics. I only have room for 10, so I end up deleting them eventually. If you have time to u/l the Heroic and defender that would be great. Otherwise I'll get to it eventually.

The HMS Defender is the hff class. Now up at my club under files.

Here is a pic with it on a bops six.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfcmodels/

E_Look · « **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2003, 11:13:34 pm »

Well, James, it's 1010 with this post!

Anyway, YAHOOEE!... or whatever it was that one of those Musketeer doggies yelled out in the old cartoon. In many way, I enjoy SFC1 more, although the SFC2's do have some obvious advantages. I still run all three- SFC1, EAW, and OP.

Hey, if you're taking model requests, you know what I've found there to be a dearth of? There are almost not Hydran bases of any era out there. I think there's one Lyran TMP base, maybe one Kzinti/Mirak, and I think John Stone has a set of new skins for a TOS ISC base. Still, that's a cool Hydran ship you've got there; but somehow, it makes me think- "Jem H'adar"!!

Reverend · « **Reply #20 on:** July 11, 2003, 12:53:08 am »

Thanks James- a very TMP era Hydran, if I am correct- fits rather nicely alongside the other Hydran ships!

James Formo · « **Reply #21 on:** July 12, 2003, 11:39:26 am »

E_Look I kinda forgot all about a Hydran base. I'll give it a go. Yea I always thought there were some similarities between the Jem Ha'dar and Hydran. Now that I have gone more into the purple it looks even more so. I have a story to explain the similarities.

Reverend, actually there meant to be TNG era, simply cause that is what I am modding for in OP. The designs borrow heavily from the stock ones so they still fit in late TMP. I wanted to keep the designs close to original since my textures are different. That way they still have a Hydran look to them. The hff and hca are especially close to stock. Haven't pictured my Hca yet.

Here is a possible design for the hdn. I am not at my computer so I don't have PSP on this one. Need to remap the textures some yet. Still fiddling with the hca as well. I want to add a hbb class also.
Then a hfa, hft and hms sooner or later.

Reverend · « **Reply #22 on:** July 12, 2003, 12:25:18 pm »

Allright, I see now... I liked adding TNG to OP also- either way, its a really nice ship; I'd like to see that HCA when you get finished, I know it'd be a marvel too!

James Formo · « **Reply #23 on:** July 12, 2003, 02:19:45 pm »

E_Look. Here is my 1st attempt at a starbase. Its the most obvious and least work hehe (using just warp drives and impulse engines) So it has mega power but no wepons yet- hmmmm. Open to sugestions on this. Not sure if this one is workable or not. The pic on the right is eithe the hcv or the hbb-havn't decided yet. Actually it could be the hdn as I doubt I would use both of these last 2 variants, as they are quite similar.

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #24 on:** July 12, 2003, 02:23:59 pm »

Keep pushing the envelope James, you got something going here don't stop now.

Qapla!

KF

E_Look · « **Reply #25 on:** July 12, 2003, 11:03:47 pm »

Nice start, James!

It's always a good idea to start with something you can hold onto, like a symmetrical design. Then you can carry the football and run down field as far as you like! Or you can change venues and beam onto a baseball stadium, go to leftfield and do some Darkdronish asymmetrical starbase designs, such as some of his Klingon or Borg designs... not to tell you what to do or compare you to another modeler; you guys are too uniquely gifted for that.

The heavy cap ship looks good. I think, though that it's kind of too slender to be a carrier, unless the length is used for fighter storage and launching. Maybe I'm too used to real life carriers- with enough width for a very good pilot to land.

Still, both designs are in the right direction- Hydran stuff seems more rounded than other races boats; even in TMP, the most angularly designed ships of any era.

Play ball!

James Formo · « **Reply #26 on:** July 13, 2003, 08:33:31 pm »

Well the starbase is on the back burner for now. The cl class I released would probably make the best carrier- but its already sized and all.

Well the top pic is the HMS Majestic. Hopefully I will release it in a day or so.

2nd pic (collage of 6 ships) are all available at my Yahoo club for your Hydran campaigns. Still uploading 3 as I type.

Get em here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfcmodels/ under files.

The regent.zip also contains the fighter and shuttle.

James Formo · « **Reply #27 on:** July 15, 2003, 08:44:58 pm »

The HMS Omen is available at my Yahoo club as a Hbb class. Hp's done. I believe all my Hydrans have the lightmaps assigned correctly. I can't tell for sure as my video card does not read lightmaps on any ships that anyone has made.

If the ship is lit. It would be cool if someone would post a screen of it so I could see it.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfcmodels/ Look for the Omen zip under files. 6 other Hydrans up as well as shuttle and fighter.

E_Look. Sorry to say I am stuck on the Starbase. I keep baseing it off my ship designs and having trouble coming up with something that won't look like a purple DS9. I do like the stock Hydran base. May just try a bash of it and retexture it.
At any rate I am kinda bored with Hydrans-hard to create when one is bored. So I"ll take a break from em for a bit and maybe take a peek at ISC ships.

HMS Omen keeping the bops busy.

Ship development -

The HMS Omen incorporates triphasic technology. It has 2 secondary hulls that extend
there seperate shield generators around the ship. The mail hull also does this, so all told
there are 3 shield fields created. Each using a unique frequency. This makes the Omens hull
difficult to penetrate. While not carrying as many heavy weapons as some other races TNG era
battleships. The Omen is often able to fight a battle of attrition and emerge victorious.

E_Look · « **Reply #28 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:33:52 pm »

Hey James, no prob. I was highly flattered and pleased you even considered it! It's your modeling software- enjoy it... at your pace! And like someone said in Remus' return thread, there's a new vanguard of quality modelers here, motivated, talented, and as far as we all can see, nicer people... and you're definitely one of them, if not one of the first of them! I look forward to your ISC stuff.

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