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Just.....wow. *wipes the drool away*
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And now.....for those who care, a brief history of the Evenstar: This ship started from me playing around with Nick Porcino's Enterprise model to come up with something that looked like a TOS version of the NX-01 and called it the Panama after my favorite Van Halen song. (take a moment....that song + ship coming out of warp = ) Out of respect for the model and its creator, and after pouring over ships designs and studying Nick's mesh and realizing a saucer isn't all that hard of a thing to build, I set out to redesign my ship. Still wanting something small and liking twin nacelles, I ended up with this: A friend of mine and I mulled over the engines for awhile and decided from the profile they looked too long without a secondary hull, so we went about looking to shorter, non-canon, pre-TOS nacelle design and also worked out the ship's backstory. I classified it for the time-being as a "heavy scout" meaning it could take care of itself for awhile if it needed to and sported older nacelles which weren't quite end-of-life and worked perfectly for patrol duty along the Neutral Zone and was also assigned to nearby Starbase. The ship does have 2 small hanger areas in the back of the saucer for smaller shuttlecraft, but not near the size of a full Constitution-class hanger. The front caps would be in the style of the The Cage / Where No Man's Gone Before with the coolie golden anttenae (sp?). I was determined to fit on the deflectors and got my inspiration from a design I remembered of a TOS miranda-class. I renamed it to Evenstar as a reference to one of my other favorite things, The Lord of the Rings. The rest, for now, is history. Currently, the ship is under re-construction again. I've been reshaping the back end of the saucer. Here she is and she stands now sans shuttle hangers: As always, C&C's welcome.
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Hey, thanks everybody for the kind words. I'll be posting more....maybe an evolution of where it started from. Jason, I agree! The ship just HAD to have deflector dishes. I'd like to give a special shout out to Tralfaz. Al's Greebles are used to connect the supprt pylons to the upper nacelle (solid u-bend), and also what the dishes connect to (couplers). Just for giggles, here's another shot... And please, comments are very welcome. Plenty more to come!
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It's been a very long time since I've posted....well anything (2007?). I've been logging onto the forums pretty regularly for inspiration and have been working on this for couple months. I present to you, the USS Evenstar.....a work-in-progress.
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Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
No problem, Darkwing! I really appreciate your work on this. I've been playing with the X-Wing Jeetman provided in meantime. Can't wait to see the A-Wing! Thanks again -
Are you making this for a project to use or just for practice? The reason I ask is because there's an excellent X-Wing model in the donated models section on the hash site. I used it for the project I worked on for my brother-in-law and his friend. Check it out. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=a...st&id=21470 If you are just doing it as practice, then you're doing a great job so far!!! George Jeetman, Would you be so kind as to enlighten me where the donated models section is? I would really like to get my hands on that X-Wing. Nicely done video, btw I got it a while ago on the original site. The set up was different then in that you could download from different model catagories but this all in one should have the X-Wing model on it. I couldn't find the name of the person who made it unfortunately otherwise I WOULD have given credit where credit was due. Here's the link to the extra's CD. You can download a zip here http://www.hash.com/freemodels/ Hey Jeetman, Thanks for the help, but the X-Wing isn't in the zip file. That's the extras CD that came with the Yeti CD (2005?). Would it be possible to get the model to me directly?
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Are you making this for a project to use or just for practice? The reason I ask is because there's an excellent X-Wing model in the donated models section on the hash site. I used it for the project I worked on for my brother-in-law and his friend. Check it out. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=a...st&id=21470 If you are just doing it as practice, then you're doing a great job so far!!! George Jeetman, Would you be so kind as to enlighten me where the donated models section is? I would really like to get my hands on that X-Wing. Nicely done video, btw
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Great start, Clonewar. I agree with Matt. It is kinda bulky. Reminds of of the Kenner toy. Some of the lines along the nose look to be straightened. Keep it up!
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Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
FOUND IT!! A:M Models Here's the site with the Star Destroyer. The Tyderium shuttle is actually pretty decent. Rigged with folding wings!! -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
Actually, I'll try finding the site I downloaded it from. There were several other models as well. -
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PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
Hey everybody! Here's some screenshots from some of the greenscreening test footage. The ship is the Osprey model included in A:M. The distant pair of Star Destroyers are the ones I'd mentioned earlier. The starfield was done in A:M and composited with FXHome CompositeLab Pro. The pilot is a good filmmaking buddy of mine. -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
That Jedi starfighte is amazing! Darkwing, Stardestoyer you say? That would be fantastic...... ...muahaha.....muahahahahahaa....Laugh with me, I say!! MMUUAAAHHHAHAHAHAH!!!!! -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
Something I just remembered..... What's the possibility of having the cannons able to rotate on an axle? One shot i had in mind is of one of the awings being chased by a TIE and the pilot rotating his cannons 180 degrees to shoot at the chasing TIE. -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
Great looking models, Tralfaz. Right now, all I've decided on for sure are A-Wings and TIE Interceptors. The interceptor is taken care of by use of a really great 3DS model that imports perfectly. I've been toying with the use of a stardestroyer and possibly some random freighters...but who knows. There's an A:M destroyer running around that I found....looks great in far shots, but not so great close up. Again, this is all really in the development stage of "what can i pull off?" -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
No problem, Darkwing. There's no rush. Looks like it's really coming along! I'll be posting some stills of my greenscreening efforts with the osprey model in A:M. Thanks, again! -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
Wow!! I feel like I've created a monster with this thread! Lookin' good, so far DarkWing! Keep it up! -
Looking for modeler for short Star Wars film
PurpleDingo replied to PurpleDingo's topic in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
This is all still really in the preproduction phase so no, I don't have a set time. I really appreciate your reply and looking forward to seeing what you can do. Thanks!! -
Hello, everyone! I'm not sure if this is asking too much, but I'm hoping there's someone out there who would be willing to help for the fun of it, or who knows where I could find one. I love A:M's easy to use choreography interface and finding staging and animating very intuitive, but a modeler I am not. To be honest, between writing the script, teaching myself how to greenscreen, research, etc etc, building a model from scratch is something I'm not having a lot of time left to dedicate to. If you are interested in jumping onboard, please contact me. I'm looking for a realistic as possibe Rebel A-Wing. All the 3DS models out there import very poorly to A:M.