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Advice appreciated.
« on: July 10, 2006, 07:20:46 am »
Any advice for the saucer of this ship? The rest is not completed.... it is not supposed to be cannon.

I just want it to look nice.
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Re: Advice appreciated.
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2006, 07:38:27 am »
The fore and aft sections of the ship are too different, architecturally.  The aft section is heavy on angular lines, while the saucer is rounded & smooth.

Make the saucer thicker, and introduce some angularity to the different deck levels, or smooth up the rear and round  off the sharp lines.
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2006, 08:11:42 am »
The fore and aft sections of the ship are too different, architecturally.  The aft section is heavy on angular lines, while the saucer is rounded & smooth.

Make the saucer thicker, and introduce some angularity to the different deck levels, or smooth up the rear and round  off the sharp lines.

The model is not mine. Also, I have only textured the saucer.... I will retexture everything else in the next day or so.
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2006, 01:49:47 pm »
Larger imperial logos, and palce them on the sides with the sword tips facing port/star. And I would get rid of them concentric circle patterns too, they're and eye-sore, imho.

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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2006, 06:02:06 am »
ETA: Sunday night. I will hopefully have finished it by sunday night and have screenies of my first retexture ready. :)
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2006, 03:26:26 pm »
It would look better if the rest of the ship were the same dark bronze color as the saucer imho.

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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2006, 04:53:51 pm »
It would look better if the rest of the ship were the same dark bronze color as the saucer imho.

The non-bronze color are textures that I haven't gotten to yet. :)
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2006, 07:47:03 pm »
sinces it's clearly an ISS, how about some bad-ass fanboy cannons sticking out of a few places?

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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2006, 09:29:03 pm »
sinces it's clearly an ISS, how about some bad-ass fanboy cannons sticking out of a few places?

I wish I could, but I'm not a modeler.... :(

I wouldn't know where to start, and I don't think that putting cannons on the textures would look too good.
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