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Post by dragnoz on Jun 10, 2012 9:18:40 GMT -9
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Post by dragnoz on Jun 7, 2012 7:02:49 GMT -9
its for the frigates... it will be quite small so ill print them out and check if they will do the trick
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Post by dragnoz on Jun 7, 2012 6:21:37 GMT -9
HA indeed... thats quite awsome.. im loving the style of it.. thanks for the share... im quite a fan of romanticallyapocalyptic.com/1 BTW i finally watched the disappointing "Sherlock Holmes, Game of thrones" and it appears my storyline for Gods Of Steam touched on certain aspects of it... Gods of Steam is slightly on the back burner for now....
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Post by dragnoz on Jun 7, 2012 6:14:49 GMT -9
Well it will probably be layers. i kinna like the tinkerability that layers provide. my initial estimation of doing 3 textures is not going to happen. Ill do two textures and maybe a colour variation or two. here is some of the textures so far. AARGH... ok.. lol yes no that was never the intention... Its actually based on Alchemy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(alchemy) and story i have percolating in the back of my mind... its a war between space faring tech alchemists and various other human and non human species. The default ship names and captains will be linked to this... Central Fire, Philolaus, Empedocles and it will be the - Magnum opus wars - hmm we will see... I would love to however I have limited amount of time but might do one of these crowdsourcing jobbies once the first set is done to to judge interest.
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Post by dragnoz on Jun 5, 2012 4:31:05 GMT -9
LOL did you have my return date booked in your diary ;-)
Yea had a great break... however had some severe sunstroke with a touch to much beer and cocktails... gotta love the Turkey sun and all inclusives...
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Post by dragnoz on May 27, 2012 4:44:16 GMT -9
Frigates are done... but i have to take a break for a week... we off on holiday and gloriously no internet access whohoo...
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Post by dragnoz on May 27, 2012 4:05:28 GMT -9
Awesome... thanks for the explanation... LOL so basically i just need to move my "Gods of Steam" time period up by a hundred years or so and we done hehe... I have something that is perfect for it... so here is my submission to the May Hoard. I call then the "little zerstorung"... they were secret autonomous mobile guns that was developed by the hand of Moriarty. The scientist who built the first three had them set to search and attack human heat signatures. They never realised their mistake. It took a squad of heavy armoured troopers 3 hours to secure the lab. Not much remained of the scientists. Shortly after the project was abandoned. Rumours have surfaced of a successful reactivation of the program, but none alive have seen these small silent creeping destruction machines. Rumour also claim that they hunt in packs, have a hive mind and kills all humans indiscriminately. There is no way to confirm or deny these rumours. Attachments:
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Post by dragnoz on May 25, 2012 23:15:53 GMT -9
Erm what exactly is "world war weird"? Sounds very cool and would like to submit something.
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Post by dragnoz on May 22, 2012 9:36:40 GMT -9
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 22:51:10 GMT -9
The foam seems to be just normal foam or "sponge" as we use to call in South Africa.
print out the picture and take it to any big hardware or home improvement stores... i think Brico Center will have some...
the emulsion paint is indeed an acrylic paint.. its a waterbased paint that is used for the outside or bathrooms... it dries kinna like rubbery and doesnt crack or break when bent.
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 22:32:40 GMT -9
ok this is where i need some help and advice... I dont really know much about starships and weapons.
So a list of suggested weapons and arrays will be most welcome! even some stats with the weapons could be usefull...
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 22:25:28 GMT -9
hehe the second frigate is not on this thread and its a bit kitbashed as i had to work out some minor flaws on the fly.
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 22:23:28 GMT -9
They AWSOME arent they? lol there is usually one model or figure in a set I really erm.. "fall in love with" when creating sets... these little ones are by far my favourites of the whole set... no? but now i have had a look on amazon there is quite a few on there... there is just one tiny issue, the engines are folded double so that you have an inside and an outside so curling it might be difficult... i got around it by having lots of little scoring lines.. but that does make it a bit wonky... ill experiment some more though.. thanks for the tip! I love them!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 22:17:02 GMT -9
i wish i can say i have a technique... i tend to keep slapping it on till i get a half decent texture hehe... but still... i find it a long process with little to show but weird disjointed blocks on the screen... its usually this part of the process that drives the wife mad for some reason.. Hmm dont know about shuffler, just googled it and it seems to be mostly to build terrain and such. I tend to buy stock and then mod the living daylights out of it. There is some really good cheap second life texture sellers out there...
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 6:26:10 GMT -9
ooh i love these little guys... just done teh texturing and build of 12 of them... 6 blue and 6 red... Tiny little thing ;-) two squads of 6 each: Fight to protect the Freighter...
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 3:04:34 GMT -9
Thank you :-D its te great descriptions. ive really enjoy this so far... there is also a second frigate ... if you look closely at the last few pics and im not talking about the pics on this thread, the extra frigate on this thread is the same model just assembled slightly different.
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 2:55:07 GMT -9
You killing me man , you killing me LOL... well rhan, at the moment this is one faction of the humans. lets see how the interest in these go... if its well received ill be looking at other factions and some alien ones as well... I'm not sure if this will be everyone's cup of tea as there is a bit of construction involved and is not a "quick fix" for instant play. Ha.. waayy ahead of you but thanks so much for keeping the ideas flowing. there is three textures, not just colours... well each texture is a different colour as well but its 3 physically different textures and with the modular way im doing it there is potentially an unlimited amount of design choices when combining the sets. imagine building a "rebel army" that uses parts from all 3 textures to give it that "cobbled together from junk" look.... LOL yes well there is nothing stopping it from being printed out bigger, however i would probably need to adjust the layout on the page and build in some support braces for the bigger pieces... ha.. imagine having the small scale fleet and having a space batle and then crash landing on a planet where you wage "ERA OF WAR" you can then swap to the bigger model and continue with the war on the ground there is about 3 ships that never made the cut as they were to fiddly to build or wrong scale... I might rework them for a future release. Ah almost forgot, I have named this set "Black Sun Wars" I did some research and black sun came up with a number of games and companies but none that does anything like these ships.. Im also now on final design and concept lock-down mode... here is the final 6 sets that will make up the first fleet. Now begins the torturous task of texturing... will take a month or so...
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Post by dragnoz on May 21, 2012 2:27:54 GMT -9
phew ok...thats the design concepts for the first fleet done! I was playing around with various ideas for the fighters but just could not get myself to settle for 2D fighters... after all, if you spent so much time building your fleet do you really want flat fighters? they small yes.. but not at all unmanageable... the design is VERY basic, but it has to be to build able. they a bit wonky, there was no design aspect to them except me cutting out smaller and smaller rectangles and then the "engine / wing" parts... it works so ill do it a bit more official like. Scale against freighter. You should be able to get 2 or 3 of them into one of those containers underneath the freighter and at least a donzen more in the actual cargo hold... nice surprise for space pirates... A squad of 5 attacking a frigate: and last but not least the same squad attacking the battle cruiser: so what do you guys think are they to big? to small?
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Post by dragnoz on May 20, 2012 12:25:19 GMT -9
ok the fleet so far... i have one more battle ship that needs cutting building, 1 more frigate sized shiip that needs unfolding and then the fighters to do... then the looonnngg texturing process starts...
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Post by dragnoz on May 20, 2012 2:37:58 GMT -9
It came out a little smaller than expected but it seems to be ok if i go by the descriptions and requisites of a frigate. at first i thought the smaller bits might be tricky to assemble but it was actually ok, you just need to be careful with cutting of it. there is 3 frigates of this size on an A4 piece of paper. I will layout the final printfile to have 1, 2 and 3 show and hide functions so that if you do want to print it in a bigger scale it will be easier. so here are the pieces: the size comparison: and some more shots: as you can see im trying to get the the basic ships done before moving on to the texturing phase.
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Post by dragnoz on May 18, 2012 11:41:30 GMT -9
erm.. ok ill be honest i dont know what a Frigate is :S please give me some examples or a descriptions hehe... i mean what sets a frigate aside from another ship? ive googled and have a few answers but i would be interested to know what you guys' take on frigates are
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Post by dragnoz on May 18, 2012 9:11:09 GMT -9
HA gilius... puting it next to figures never even crossed my mind... lol now it just needs to be printed out a tad bigger and its perfect for 28-30mm scale hehe...
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Post by dragnoz on May 18, 2012 8:00:10 GMT -9
hmm ok waaayy to big and making it smaller will make some of the pieces un buildable... so will be using some of the parts for another model or for the battle cruiser. also... have no idea what kind of ship this actually is:
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Post by dragnoz on May 18, 2012 7:58:12 GMT -9
Thanks Guys!!! im in a good place with these... i actually prefer designing models to creating paper figures lol. uptrainfan89 im not certain of which type of weapons ill be doing, ill do a whole bunch and it will be up to you which ones is added when you builds it... saying that, if you look at the suggested build, the whole front section is all big guns. @vermin... lol inspired no, obsessed... yes hehe...
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Post by dragnoz on May 16, 2012 6:37:55 GMT -9
First non textured build of the battlecruiser. consists of 32 modular pieces that can be used with the rest of the starship range or build the battle cruiser. 2.5D guns and comms arrays etc will be added during the texturing phase and here is my recommended battlecruiser build, but you will be able to assemble and design your own, even adding components from the other starship sets like the freighter "containers" or engines. and just to put the size all in scale: these wil probably be the biggest two ships, all others in the range will be smaller. next is the texturing, which will probably not happen until after the weekend. ah yes forgot to mention the base and stand is just foamboard at the moment, have not created the paper base and stand yet
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Post by dragnoz on May 15, 2012 6:28:16 GMT -9
possible battle cruiser concept...
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Post by dragnoz on May 15, 2012 2:23:05 GMT -9
I'm not quite sure yet how i will package them.
publish them one model at a time as they become available and then when the complete set is done offer a package deal.
or hold out for a few months and offer it as a set.
I tend to release my stuff as I complete them as this gives me a a good indication of the demand and allows me to determine the priorities of my projects.
but im not sure lol... ill see how i get on over the next week or so.
LOL i LOVE that book..... hmmm... yes there might just be a Milliways franchise in the works hehe
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Post by dragnoz on May 14, 2012 23:27:42 GMT -9
Wow these are excellent... cant believed i missed this one... I'm in true awe of your vison and work! cant download as you have to register not a fan of 4shared
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Post by dragnoz on May 14, 2012 11:24:42 GMT -9
so what other ships would be good to have?
- Battleship - Carrier - Cruiser - Frigate - fighters (2.5D) and?
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Post by dragnoz on May 14, 2012 11:09:13 GMT -9
WOW! these are bloody fantastic!
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