Armada II - Dawn of War

[Fireball_VI]

I really dont stop today do I? Anywho I decided I needed a break from Klingons, and from TOS, just one model to take me away for a bit.

So...I am making the Ticonderoga from fasa, when I saw this design on that FASA site I feel in love with the design, so unsual, and sleek.
On a side note, damn those TMP nacelles, so painful to get right.

Going to start work on textures soon, I have not touched TMP textures since my Constellation, speaking of which I should show some of that ship and release it...

[starfox1701]

Looking good keep it up man

[Terradyhne]

great T-8 model, now i don't need to finish mine, yours is much better

[Fireball_VI]

Originally Posted by Terradyhne

great T-8 model, now i don't need to finish mine, yours is much better

Hey thanks for the compliment!
As for the better part, it's not a competition, each modeller has thier own style, but if you'd like, I could send you the max/3ds file for this and you could hardpoint/damage/borgify her how you'd like?

edit - do you by any chance remember me?
Lol, i've seen you around for a long long time, great to see even more familiar faces.

[Terradyhne]

Originally Posted by Fireball_VI

Hey thanks for the compliment!
As for the better part, it's not a competition, each modeller has thier own style, but if you'd like, I could send you the max/3ds file for this and you could hardpoint/damage/borgify her how you'd like?

edit - do you by any chance remember me?
Lol, i've seen you around for a long long time, great to see even more familiar faces.

thanx for the offer but your model is to high poly for my needs and A2 settings but its good to see someone with your skills making not only more and more damn Fed ships.

yeah somehow i remember to know somone with the name Fireball, if it's you than i surely know you LOL

[Fireball_VI]

Originally Posted by Terradyhne

thanx for the offer but your model is to high poly for my needs and A2 settings but its good to see someone with your skills making not only more and more damn Fed ships.

yeah somehow i remember to know somone with the name Fireball, if it's you than i surely know you LOL

Yup it's me!
Lol while we may not be very old age wise, we're relics in the Armada community

Anywho, not many updates, i've been hardpointing some of my FT work, decided to take a break from beating the crap out of Romulan ships and work on making the base aztec for the saucer.

It's taken a lot of work, and a lot of looking at photos of the Enterprise but here is what I have so far. I'm going to add another layer of aztec to what you see plus some rust. This is what i've got for the time being though.

Looking at refrence photo's of the Enterprise, the hull is actually a sort of baige, it just always looks blue in the movies due to the lighting, but I figured hell, if it looks blue in the movies, i'll stick with that look. (The baige I was talking about is pics taken of the studio model at auctions).

Hopefully more to come soon, I feel this is the most difficult part, that and the nacelles!

[Fireball_VI]

Sorry to post so soon but the aztec is done, would have been done much sooner, and i'd be able to use it in many more aplications had paint shop pro not screwed me....

long story short, always make backups!
My last backup was from a long time ago, still useable but no where near as complete, anywho I could manage it for the Ticonderoga but I wont be able to use it as a template for future ships, atleast the more complete one, no big deal I guess.

Anywho here it is, the aztec will be the same for top and bottom, the details obviously wont be though!

[Fireball_VI]

Sorry for another one, but I wanted to post what I was going for with this.
This is with speculars and bumps so it wont be like this in armada, but I was going for the TMP look with what happens when the lights shine on it in certain ways.

[the Starfleet Kid]

That looks pretty fantastic, Fireball. This mod moves higher and higher up my 'must-have' list all the time.

[starfox1701]

You know that specs and bump maps do work in A2. I've toyed with adding them to some of my ships it make a huge difference once you know what you are looking at.