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Captain Boh
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Desided to deign a Constitution Variant that is somewhere between the movie refit and the original. I will be using the Phase II design and other fan ships of the era for inspiration. Currently, I'm working on a Spline drawing of the Constitution to work from.

My progress so far:

I am using Charles Casmiro's blueprits as a guide for my base Constituion

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Nim
The Aardvark asked for a dagger
Member # 205

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Looks nice. Yes, the center part of the ship and the nacelle pylons is probably where the original and the refit differ the most.

Have you decided if you will have torpedo launchers in the "neck"?

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AndrewR
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spline?

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Harry
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Common name for 2D shapes in 3D software. So, I'm assuming this going to end up 3D?

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Captain Boh
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quote:
Originally posted by Nim the Fanciful:
Looks nice. Yes, the center part of the ship and the nacelle pylons is probably where the original and the refit differ the most.

Have you decided if you will have torpedo launchers in the "neck"?

I think I'm going to use the round launchers from the "Blooper Show" image

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Originally posted by Harry:
Common name for 2D shapes in 3D software. So, I'm assuming this going to end up 3D?

Not sure if I'll do a 3d model. I'm using Splines in 3dstudio Max because its the style of vector drawing I'm most famillear with.

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AndrewR
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How about blue bussard collectors?

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Captain Boh
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Update on the Constitution Nacelles:

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Captain Boh
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Basic Constitution Outline nearly compleate:

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Jason Abbadon
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Excalibur?
That looks nothing like an Ambassador class starship! [Wink]

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Captain Boh
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Thats because its the USS Excalibur from The Ultimate Computer. [Wink]

I desided since it was heavyly damaged in the episode, during their repairs they'd refit it some [Big Grin]

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Captain Boh
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Basic Constitution finished, next the detailing, then the refit

1502x369

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Captain Boh
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Just something I did for fun:

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Kazeite
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You are using splines in 3DMAX to produce a 2D image?

I'm sure that's not what programmers had in mind when they implemented this function. [Smile]

Nevertheless, it looks very nice.

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MarianLH
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Originally posted by Kazeite:

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You are using splines in 3DMAX to produce a 2D image?

I'm sure that's not what programmers had in mind when they implemented this function.

Nevertheless, it looks very nice.

Hey, you use what you know how to use. I have Illustrator, Photoshop, and Freehand, but I can't produce images that good. I make little pixellated crap in a 10-year-old paint program instead.

Marian

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Harry
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That's true. I tried several times to learn Freehand, as many people claim it is 'better'. But I'm so completely used to CorelDRAW, that it just doesn't work.

I've been using Corel since version 4, and you just learn how do certain things. There are only one thing I really miss: 'expanding' curves, making an equidistantly larger curve, instead of proportional scaling. If this sounds strange, it's because I really don't know what this method is properly called.

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