[WIP] Battle Ship Concept

the_meshmaster2525

Ok everyone here is my first official WIP od a Battleship Concept design. I started this over 6 yrs ago, but now I will be finishing it.

The major redos will be a new design of bridge and deck guns.

Brian "Panda" Choi

I think it's a solid start.

How do the guns shoot at a vector that's straight above them?

Skinner3D

Needs lots of greebles and nurnies

the_meshmaster2525

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

I think it's a solid start.

How do the guns shoot at a vector that's straight above them?

That is one thing that I will be fixing in my redo / redesign.

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Skinner3D said:

Needs lots of greebles and nurnies

Whats nurnies???

Brian "Panda" Choi

@the_meshmaster2525

https://www.google.com/search?q=nurnies&oq=Nurnies&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.1279j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Brian "Panda" Choi said:

@the_meshmaster2525

https://www.google.com/search?q=nurnies&oq=Nurnies&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.1279j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

So just another name for greebles.?....cool.

Brian "Panda" Choi

The head of the ship being the cylindrical top that it is lends the whole design feeling clunky and brusque, which I don't know if that's your intention?  At least, the silhouette right now, I have a hard time immediately feeling that this is a fast ship.

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Brian "Panda" Choi said:

The head of the ship being the cylindrical top that it is lends the whole design feeling clunky and brusque, which I don't know if that's your intention?  At least, the silhouette right now, I have a hard time immediately feeling that this is a fast ship.

  Well, this is not supposed to be a fast ship, that's why it as a moderate number of fighters. the fore section is the fighter bays, [Two Decks]. This ship is mainly a battleship, designed for brute force. Ill have full specs at a later time. 

the_meshmaster2525

just a small update...I enlarge the fighter bay and added four cannons at Fore and Aft. Simler to what you see in Babylon 5 ship.

Skinner3D

Yep those. Just the amount you added changes the scale of the ship visually.
Something to think about is are you going 'sci-fi' where its mostly smooth surfaces, or like Halo where the whole entire thing is covered in hull plates? 
Depending on your goal for this, this is one of those projects that could take you a long while just by itself. Depending on detail level.

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Skinner3D said:

Yep those. Just the amount you added changes the scale of the ship visually.
Something to think about is are you going 'sci-fi' where its mostly smooth surfaces, or like Halo where the whole entire thing is covered in hull plates? 
Depending on your goal for this, this is one of those projects that could take you a long while just by itself. Depending on detail level.

Hummm..honestly I was thinking something close to Babylon 5 scale, where they are rougher looking. So the detail will be higher. 

the_meshmaster2525

Just a small update....I started to add the Deck Gun Bases that they will set on. The color is only temp.

Also started on the bridge.

the_meshmaster2525

major addition to the engines....

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Not allot of action on these forums...odd...

Brian "Panda" Choi

At the risk of sounding cheeky, you're gonna want to look at this to explain why you're not getting feedback every time you post something.

https://polycount.com/discussion/146495/how-to-post-on-the-internet/p1

I'll remark for myself your overall design decision with this ship leaves me wanting, but I think that speaks more to my interest in Homeworld style spacecraft than Battlestar's. The overall silhouette could have a more attractive form/assertion to it.

Olingova

The thing is that you post single image, little updates, not astonishing visually (yet).. Difficult to build anything on that we will need more to speak about And definitely, the post up there ^  Explain the situation well.. Personally, when some of my posts didn't have any reply, i just took it as a challenge like "it wasn't good enough to astonish; let's do better next time to get a few comments!!"

The other situation is if you need help/ask question or are doing something really bad (you'll be amazed by the numbers of answers then) but i don't think it's your case here.

the_meshmaster2525

Damn....you know that you're both right....I guess sometimes I get too anxious, sorry...so I think what I will do is this.

I'll just post the initial work (rough outline/draft), then my final work/render...might be better that way. Again for pointing out my errors.

the_meshmaster2525

OK, this is the completed (Un-Texture) version, the nest pic will be the textured with BG version.

I gave this guy 12 Ion Meg Turrets, 18 Point Defence laser Platforms, 7 Long Range Missle Launchers and 3, (two fore/1 aft) Ion Meg cannons.

Lastly, equipt with a large Fighter Squadron for support.

Ill have a full Spec sheet made out later.

Skinner3D

Definitely looking more like a battleship size cruiser. Only thing I see is that with all the tiny detail you have scattered across the ship, the dark grey hex panels look a little smooth. 

PyrZern

Take a few close up shots of those gun batteries/turrets !  More close up shots of the engines, of the hangars, of the bridge, or whatever that seem more interesting than the zoom-out shot of the whole ship itself.

Same thing with posting for characters... Silhouette shot is good, but so is mug shot on the face, on the shoulder armors, belt, boots, etc etc.

Brian "Panda" Choi

I'm still not on board with the design.  Just sort of looks boring to look at.  Even the BSG cruiser ship had some curves.

Assuming you're done with this, I hope you spend more time on the concept design stage for the next one.

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Brian "Panda" Choi said:

I'm still not on board with the design.  Just sort of looks boring to look at.  Even the BSG cruiser ship had some curves.

Assuming you're done with this, I hope you spend more time on the concept design stage for the next one.

That's ok...not everyone likes the same thing..its cool. I guess I think outside the box more then others.
My next project will be on the Hollow Moon Theory, truly fascinating concept.