Betty9

Havent had the time to do much modeling because of real life work, but here is a small update.

Betty8

Small update. This cone thingy was harder to make than I thought. Progress is very slow, cos I have to do a poopload of vertex moving and cutting and cleaning and merging.

Betty7

Have started on the big giant cone. Here's a wire with the reffs I use. I also use various pics I have downloaded from around the web.

Betty6

Some hydraulics.

Betty5

A little more done. I have never done so much chamfering manually as I have done on this model. Its annoying.

Betty4

Latest progress. Forgot to alter the edge creasing in Carrara, so some of the edges looks a bit funky :)

Betty3

Some more done on Betty.

Betty2

Have gotten some more done. I almost regret I started this thing, already. Not exactly uplifting for future progress I must say :) I mostly need to move everything manually....... mostly :D

Betty

I need a break from Invidia. So I am going to have a go at making Betty from Alien Resurrection instead. I have always wanted to make it, or try to make it, but never found any good enough reference pictures. Not until some days ago, on Foundation 3d. Treybor is his nick, and making sublime models is what he do. He had a thread with orthos of the Betty. I am going to use those as a source, so here goes.

What I got isn't much at the moment, but its many tries, and a lot of vertex moving to get it looking like this. The engine have a lot of angles that needed some close attention to get right.

Textures

Well, been busy with uv mapping. Until it hit me..... why the heck am I doing this? The panels will cover almost all the hull, and most of the texture will be hidden. Bloody hell.

Some wires

Some wires of the saucer, and a couple of renders.

More saucer work done

Some minor changes and addons.

Bottom panels

Started with the bottom of the saucer. Decided to change the registry as well.

Outlined txt

Huzzah. Managed to get the letters cut out without to much trouble and mess.

Saucer text

Think I need to find out how I can get an outlined font instead. Dont feel anything for the ones I have tried so far. Some renders follow.

Saucer

I think I need to redo the name. It looks kinda.....off somehow. But the panels are more or less done.... on the top anyway :)

Top saucer panels

Been doing some new panels to the top saucer. I didnt think they matched enough.

Nacelle render

And this is how the panels looks like.

Nacelle panels final

I'm done with the panels on the nacelle. Finally :)

Nacelle paneling

Started to repanel the nacelles to match the rest of the ship. Also got the bottom part back to where I left it before the big scare.

Progress

Been doing some more stuff.

Some closeups

Bloody hell. I almost shit my pants when I opened the main hull file today. The entire bottom half was missing. I opened the backup.... and the shit was gone there as well. Also in the last backup the bottom was gone. My wife thought I was about to die because of my very loud cursing and yelling. I opened every single file to check if the bottom was in any of them in some version, and yes, I had one saved, almost the latest one as well. Only the cutout for Moby was missing. Talk about relief :)

So stoopid

Yes I am. I cut out the rescuepods in the hull, and didnt remember I had made a hatch that I had used on the upper saucer already. It took a long time to merge and clean up all the vertexes after combining surfaces. Well some small progress. Some windows and stuff.

Rescuepods

Some more panels are done, and I added the rescuepods.

I hate Trek

Ok. Its official. I hate Trek. Here's an update on the panels. I see I need to change them on the nacelles as well. Exactly what I was afraid of. Damn.

Render test of panels

Had to check how it looked like. Dont want to do all that vertex pushing and pulling just to find out it looks like shit :)

Moby Dick updated

Did some changes to the fighter\shuttle going under Invidia. New panels and some changes in the back.

Main hull panels

Have been cutting out the rescue pods on this part of the hull and done some panels. Still have buttloads left :)

Number 10

This is version 10 of the panels. And I hurt all over. Have been out in the garden and worked.

Aaand panels

Haven't had time to do much today. My little but powerful wife kicked me out into the garden ,to do some work now that the rain have stopped. But here is two renders. Didn't like those to much actually.