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Title: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: sandman69247 on July 08, 2003, 10:29:24 pm

Well, I finally decided to try a non-fed ship. Since I'm currently concentrating on pre-TOS, I decided to do the D-5...the 1st Klingon pre-TOS ship that was on the same technological level as its Romulan and Federation counterparts.

So far, I have spent about 3 hours on the mesh, and I'm feeling pretty good about it. I am going by the 4 view pic at SF Museum...hopefully I wont have any bad feedback, but, all is welcome. I want this to be a good model, so suggestions and advice is needed and welcome. One question: when I start texturing, should I use a dark green color, like current Klingon vessels, or go with the grey portrayed in the SF Museum pic?

She comes out at a little under 1200 polys...plenty small for most, I believe.

Anyway, here are a couple of shots of what I have so far:



 

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: ChrsLWlstr on July 08, 2003, 10:48:42 pm

Looking good.  

I think the grey textures would look better unless anyone was seriously interested in the new ones.  

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: James Formo on July 09, 2003, 12:25:58 am

Looking Good. I was thinking how about both green and grey.  You could make the green ones and then grey scale it for the grey ones.  

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: sandman69247 on July 09, 2003, 02:43:59 pm

bump now the forums back
 

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: Rogue on July 09, 2003, 03:08:37 pm

Nicely done. Perhaps a little more shape for the warp nacelles. If you feel inspired you might take a shot at making a SFB D5. To my knowledge the only existing mesh is the Taldren KCL which is a little lame. It's been retextured a few times by KF and myself but a proper D5 is sorely needed.

 Have you seen Anduril's D5? Really nice.

 

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: Makotokat on July 09, 2003, 06:39:44 pm

Dude you make we want to go back to texturing my D2! Now where did I put it?????

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: sandman69247 on July 09, 2003, 07:34:05 pm

Well, did a little texturing on her...went with the mean green scheme. Looks nice so far...and yes, I'm thinking about doing her in gray too. I just can't seem to find a reasonable explanation why they would change from gray to green. I figure it's all artist conception, so my take on it is green.

Here's a couple of shots:


 

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on July 09, 2003, 07:41:43 pm

Well done!

I'm not much of a fan of Pre-Tos but this little ship grows on me everytime I see it.

Qapla!

KF  

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: Makotokat on July 09, 2003, 08:30:06 pm

Very nice....can't wait to see more!

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: sandman69247 on July 10, 2003, 12:32:10 am

Here's a few more shots...got a little more done, figured out how to keep from straining the old eyes: less time working at once. That's been one of my problems, straining my eyes working on these things for hours at a time. Now I do a little at a time, but it pays off by not requiring weeks off the puter.

Anyway, like I said, got a little more done, looking nice so far. What do ya' think?


 

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: sandman69247 on July 10, 2003, 10:31:02 am

Have to work today, so not much will get done until tonight. Just wanted to bump this back to page uno.

 

Title: Re: Klingon D-5 WIP
Post by: Smiley on July 10, 2003, 10:56:36 am

Uber coolness