I'm posting this more because it's quiet here than because I'm in any way proud of this one.
A friend I do models for runs a couple of Trek RPGs, and in one his friend wants to fly a fighter 'based on an F14'. I've been teaching my mate how to use Lightwave but he's not up to modeling anything, so he asked if I could help. A Trek F14 fighter, eh? Ok...
I made a basic model of an F14 and then started to add Trek bits and pieces to make sure it was clearly Trek. Nowhere near as easy as I thought it would be, everything I do just sort of spoils the lovely Tomcat looks. I sat and stared at the bloody thing more than I modeled stuff on it. When I slap decals and pennants and stuff on it it'll look Trekkish, but I need to model stuff like thruster clusters and phasers and so forth first.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Eek. I think you're right, it's all a trifle incongruous.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
With the right Trek decals and enough trek paraphenalia on it, you might not notice it's a bloody F14. Maybe?
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
After this, you can try a Trek-style Sopwith Camel!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I want a A-10 with a replicator- allowing for limitless ordinance, fuel and ammo.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
I'm holding my breath for the X-files/Macross/Star Trek/The Blue Brothers crossover due out next year...
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
quote:Originally posted by Axeman 3D: With the right Trek decals and enough trek paraphenalia on it, you might not notice it's a bloody F14. Maybe?
Good luck with that.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
Oh ye of little faith. Wait till you see it, it'll be breath-taking in it's Treknocity.
I think the only crossover I'd be prepared to look at would involve certain newsreaders and a variety of adult movies. Almost without fail every other crossover sucks on every level.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
There you go with your Moira Stuart fetish again!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness: I'm holding my breath for the X-files/Macross/Star Trek/The Blue Brothers crossover due out next year...
Awesome: Giant blue-grey aliens in Nazi uniforms vs. jake and Elwood in the new Bluesmobile Veritech with warp drive.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
Damn, Jake & Elwood make even that crap sound cool.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
The jet mesh itself looks great...but I don't think it's possible to make this concept look aesthetically coherent. It puts me in mind of a random email I got some years back from some trekkie who'd done his car up to look like a shuttlecraft. Though it wasn't a particularly nice motor to start with, it still wasn't a pleasant sight.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
quote:Originally posted by Axeman 3D: Oh ye of little faith. Wait till you see it, it'll be breath-taking in it's Treknocity.
I think the only crossover I'd be prepared to look at would involve certain newsreaders and a variety of adult movies. Almost without fail every other crossover sucks on every level.
I'm all for it. But my fighter designs were dismissed as too conventional.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
Finally finished this thing off for the guy, adding a little more detail and some simple image maps. There's no fancy spec or diff maps here, it's simple decals on white backgrounds so the guy can make his own changes later. I've been teaching him the basics of Lightwave and he's now at the stage of altering models to suit himself, as long as it's not fancy.
By the way, it really brought back memories when I was rendering checks to see how the decals fitted. Boyhood afternoons spent fishing decals out of breakfast bowls and smearing them all over Airfix models. Ah, those were the days.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Reverend: The jet mesh itself looks great...but I don't think it's possible to make this concept look aesthetically coherent. It puts me in mind of a random email I got some years back from some trekkie who'd done his car up to look like a shuttlecraft. Though it wasn't a particularly nice motor to start with, it still wasn't a pleasant sight.
There's a minivan that is often at sc-fi cons that dressed up as a TNG shuttle.
I'm geek anough to notice that they used both TNG and pennants though.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Sounds like the same Charlie. Though I suppose it's possible there are two characters out there willing to be seen in public in a dozy-pratmobile.
What got me was why randomly email pictures of the god awful thing so some stranger on the internet. More specifically, why me?
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
You're king of the geeks, he clearly recognised your greatness. Plus you made a lot of Trek graphics in the past, you're his inspiration.
The guy is a psychiatrist or psychologist or something who has covered his Toyota Prius in Trek signage. He has recently had the seats re-covered with a Trek logo on them (quite nice looking actually) and added 'phaser emitters' to the wing mirrors. He posts regularly on the TrekBBS and is now showing his car at custom car shows around the US. He's using it to promote electric and hybrid tech to rednecks/nascar fans, many of whom think that sort of stuff is science fiction.
We've all pulled him up for being something of a loony, but he's happy in his world and loving the attention. He claims that the car can be returned to stock in a day by removing the stickers, etc so he's not devalued his car. He wins oddball awards at car shows and walks around dressed in a Trek uniform with Vulcan ears on, so I dont know if he can be fixed quite so quickly.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
Just to finish this thread off, I knocked up a simple animation in 20 minutes to see how the thing looked in the air and swinging the wings.
When I say 20 minutes, it took 20 mins to set up the animation. Actual rendering time was around 10 hours, so I do this sort of throwaway stuff overnight.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
That's.....um....quite the music you got there.
Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
Youtube for the win there.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
What, no Kenny Loggins? Posted by Axeman 3D (Member # 1050) on :
Believe me, Dangerzone is not on the list of available tracks. I did try.
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