Mark II Viper

[Darkwing]

Just to play around a little, I have decided to model a Mark II Viper from the remade BSG. My modeling skills suck (as can be seen here) but it's somewhat fun to model and there's no BSG models kicking around from what I can tell, so here's what I got so far:

 

[PurpleDingo]

That's a frakkin' awesome start, man. Keep it up!

[Darkwing]

one of my problems I continually have is notice on the wing how you can see each bend.

[Darkwing]

here's some work on the engine

 

[higginsdj]

No bevelling? I assume there won't be any closeups of this craft in the movie!

 

Cheers

[Darkwing]

no movie, just modeling. I'd bevel but I haven't got patience for it and I've never tried it.

[Darkwing]

Viper as of Day 1:

 

[Darkwing]

I re-built the wings and tried my best at the beveling thing. Now working on the basic structure for the third engine:

 

[Darkwing]

those engines have some crapload of detail to model, very time consuming

 

[paradymx]

Those engines look great keep it up! Are you using the sweeper plugin for those? If not, an extra WOW!

[Darkwing]

no, I have no idea what Sweeper is.

[Darkwing]

here's some more shots

 

 

Model is currently at 6708 patches

[pixelplucker]

Cool looking ship, I love the engines.

 

Is there really a need for bevels? usually space scenes have one main light and sharp shadows, not sure how beneficial a bevel would be on edges unless the edges are substantially large.

[Darkwing]

well, I've only put bevels on the wings cause those general get a fair bit of close up time like when it's in the hanger bay

[jason1025]

looks good. Close up shots will require some sort of beveled edge.

[Darkwing]

well, I been beveling the easy stuff, though it's very time consuming

[LeeAnderson]

Bevel or no bevel, it does look great! Your attention to detail so far has been really impressive--keep up the good work!

 

Lee

[relser65]

What scale are you using? (I decided to work on the Galactica... unless someone else has?)

 

Anyone want to take on a Cylon Raider and a Raptor?

 

http://blog.chriss-baumann.de/tag/battelstar-galactica/ for some images...

[Darkwing]

I was gonna try and work my way up, doing the mark VII next, then a raider, raptor, galactica, but there's no reason why two of us can't model the same thing

[Darkwing]

Not a huge progress report, but I've begun the under-carriage. I was gonna do the cockpit, but I think I'm avoiding it ATM

 

[Eric2575]

Chris,

 

your modeling skills are really improving.

 

Eric

[Darkwing]

thanks. I think a lot of it comes down to having the patience to do it. I have patience, but only to a certain degree. I think part of it is just me developing the patience to see this through

[Darkwing]

seeing as I haven't really posted any, here's the front view

 

[Darkwing]

Now is one of the tricky parts as I have no exact references, just fish eye views and angled pics, but I have begun work on the interior of the cockpit:

 

 

[relser65]

Now is one of the tricky parts as I have no exact references, just fish eye views and angled pics, but I have begun work on the interior of the cockpit:

 

 

Found these on http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Viper_Mark_II

 

 

Rob

[Darkwing]

those be the pics I've been using as my rotos and references, though I have a few more, a close-up of the engine, a different one of the cockpit

[Darkwing]

here's what I'm at so far with the cockpit

 

[Darkwing]

Here's the Viper with the ejection seat

 

[jason1025]

looking good

[Darkwing]

I have the side engines complete and just a few minor things left to the top engine

 

 

Model is currently at 10,660 patches

[Paul Forwood]

Nice looking model, Darkwing!

[Darkwing]

this shot essentially doesn't show anything new, it's just a different angle:

 

[largento]

Nice work, Chris! Keep it up!

[jason1025]

keep at it. The last 10% is where 90% of the work will be done. But that's only true 50% of the time.

[Darkwing]

um, 12%? I dunno *sweats and panics*

 

I have only a little of the modeling left. I just have the rest of the interior of the cockpit to model and then these side things on the fuselage, but I'm kinda stuck on those at the moment, the main problem is getting it to fit in with the mesh. Then it's texturing time

[Darkwing]

I've begun throwing some colours on the areas that are complete (fuselage being the exception) but it's really beginning to look like a colonial viper!

 

[Darkwing]

some more decal work

 

[Darkwing]

sed multi-pass for this render, decals are much sharper

 

[MJL]

Nice looking model.

[Darkwing]

This is the stage I like, it's like the icing on the cake stage

 

[John Bigboote]

There's some good-looking mechanical modeling going on there...you should do it a favor and render with ambient occlusion.

[Darkwing]

i did one early on when I was starting. At that point it took about 45 minutes to render, wouldn't surprise me if it took 2 hours to render now. I'll do one when the ship is done

[Darkwing]

the viper isn't quite done yet, but I felt like making a cool pic for them so here it is:

 

[jason1025]

looking good.

[Darkwing]

Here's that AO render. Took 2 hours and 22 minutes at 42 passes

 

[Darkwing]

still a few minor things basically just in the cockpit, but it's essentially done. if i can find some high res images of what some of the decals look like on the ship, then I'll update the decals. In the meantime, I have uploaded the model to the resources section of the forum and can be found at the BSG Files