Terran Trade Confederation
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God I love alien The Nostromo cargo hold thing it was towing was pretty hideous though, the actual Nostromo wasn't that ugly, but the monstrosity it was towing....it defies words. Come to think of it, has anyone built the Sulaco? I may have to give that a go, but with a bigger engine section; it looked a bit puny. Is it sad that I have an obsession with Alien, Aliens and Prometheus (to a lesser extent) and am 13 Never really liked the star wars movies that much though For some reason the bad guys didn't seem corrupt enough, and the good guys seemed too pointlessly honourable; but that may be my personal taste. //something vaguely topic related// Although Mackeroths ships are very pretty and sophisticated looking, the I.C.C.S.S; although beautiful, looked somehow slightly hollow and brittle, though while Lasers ships look like they are built to kill everything in the universe with economical means; I guess its just 2 different styles of building. In my opinion laser and mack are both by far the best at what they do, but they do very different things.
- Laserbilly
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
I'm pretty close to finishing my ship!
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
Looks nice, but where is the deadnought?Laserbilly wrote:I'm pretty close to finishing my ship!
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It may also have to do with ImpStars being seen frequently from outside throughout the Star Wars series, while the vast majority of Alien happened inside the Nostromo. It has a lot less screen time.Laserbilly wrote:The reason is obvious: while the ISD used greebling to underline and bring out it's overall iconic shape, the Nostromo used greebling to define it's shape and ultimately ended up looking shapeless and unmemorable.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
Too small to be a dread, it's probably a battleship
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
He was talking about the dread he was building before I guess.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
Yup, that ship is far too small to be dreadIv121 wrote:He was talking about the dread he was building before I guess.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
This is not a dreadnaught, it's a light cruiser. It's going to end up around 320 meters long.
I'm really excited about it though, because I'm trying some new construction techniques that, I think, have really improved the project. One of these is that I took the entire bottom half of the ship, copy, flipped, and pasted it next to the top half so I could work on that section in the light. This allowed me to really give it the detail it needed!
Also, since this ship has a lot of similarities to the Protector class dreadnaught (the vertical thruster block and the two bows are almost identical) working on the Protector helped me build this project much quicker, and now I think I know how to finish the Protector project! I'm very excited about this.
P.S. Look at how the light cruiser's main weapon turned out!
I'm really excited about it though, because I'm trying some new construction techniques that, I think, have really improved the project. One of these is that I took the entire bottom half of the ship, copy, flipped, and pasted it next to the top half so I could work on that section in the light. This allowed me to really give it the detail it needed!
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P.S. Look at how the light cruiser's main weapon turned out!
Re: Terran Trade Confederation
It looks incredible, you've really outdone yourself.
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Commander Error wrote:"Titan" - Moves slightly quicker than a glacier, on a good day.
Prototype wrote:F-14s are just gay Tornados.
Catsonmeth wrote:Which meant every two weeks, Tuesday night was reserved for mainlining coffee and getting sensual with a keyboard
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Single Player Commands, t/light. Done.Laserbilly wrote:I'm really excited about it though, because I'm trying some new construction techniques that, I think, have really improved the project. One of these is that I took the entire bottom half of the ship, copy, flipped, and pasted it next to the top half so I could work on that section in the light. This allowed me to really give it the detail it needed!
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(Kzinti script, as best as can be displayed in Human characters, translated roughly as "For the Patriarchy!")
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- Rear Admiral
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
Hrrr. He means work on it as if it were the top part of the ship, instead of neglecting it as the bottom since it's harder to add detail from that perspective.
Good work, by the way. Definitely the best ship I've seen come from this community.
Good work, by the way. Definitely the best ship I've seen come from this community.
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I still can't make my mind about the best ship out here, there's quite a large pool to choose from, that one is definitely good.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
I did the whole turning upside down to work on the underside thing for the I.C.E.S.S.
It interests me that you can make ships that are far less detailed than mine, yet they still look just as good. I have no idea how it's done.
It interests me that you can make ships that are far less detailed than mine, yet they still look just as good. I have no idea how it's done.
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- Lieutenant
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation
because his detailing looks good and they aren't a bunch of blocks and slabs they try to make the ship look textured.Dr. Mackeroth wrote:I did the whole turning upside down to work on the underside thing for the I.C.E.S.S.
It interests me that you can make ships that are far less detailed than mine, yet they still look just as good. I have no idea how it's done.
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Well they are , the magic is not in it is in the good judgment of when to add it, how to add it and how many, and more importantly on what.
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