Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update II

Greebling is still ongoing, it's really just plodding along but I'm almost halfway down the first trench there. I've made some changes to the hull, to help break up some of the plain expanse in the back (also had some bad angles that needed fixing). I'm really wanting to dive right into paneling but if I keep letting myself get distracted, the greebling is just going to take even longer. The big guns are in place now though. But anyway, here's some updated pics...

Star Trek: USS Bold Fury Deck Plans

Did a little more work on this, expanded the hangar a little since the shuttle was just barely fitting before... still getting the hang of inkscape...

Old GE Site Pics

Just added a page full of pics from the old version of the site, check out the page to your right there...

Star Trek: USS Excalibur Update III

Changed a bunch of stuff. What I intended to to was cut out some windows but one thing led to another and I never got to windows. But I did rebuild the bridge superstructure to make look like it was being rebuilt. Also scattered around some open spots on the upper side of the primary hull. Changed the main sensor/deflector dish to look more on the road to TMP version. Also rebuilt the hangar doors and worked on the hull around that area. And now Star Wars calls, probably work on some of that for the next post. Anyway, here's pics...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update

Starting in on the greebling along the trench. I'm trying to make each greeble individually and not just copy and paste the same 5 or 6 that was my previous effort. So this is taking much longer, lol. The guns are just there as placeholders while I figure out their final placement.

Star Trek: USS Excalibur - Update II - The Wrath of...

More work and reworking done to the warp engines and pylons. After some discussion at TrekBBS I went with some of the suggestions there and ended up with this latest version of the engines.

Star Trek: USS Excalibur - Update

I was looking this model over the other day and I decided I didn't like the engines I had come up with for the refit Excalibur. I wanted something that would indicate that this ship was repaired at a time just before the major advances seen in the refit Enterprise. I wanted this model to show upgrades in their early stages that would be fully realized in the Enterprise.

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser

This is the latest version of this model that I've been working on for literally years. It's meant to be a bridge between the Venator and Imperator classes. I imagined this as something that would have been brought into service towards the end of the clone wars, and then the prequels came out and ruined the clone wars for me, but I digress... Anyway, this is smaller than an Imperator but bigger than a Venator, I'll get more accurate dimensions later. And yes, I know it hasn't got any engines yet.

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Avatar Update III

Added some brake lights, not sure why they have them, they're probably supposed to be something else but that's what they look like to me. Also started adding some greebling and detail lines here and there.

Star Trek: USS Pandemus - Update

Once again, a small update, just added some bits and did some tweaking here and there. I'll have a more thorough update soon though.

Battlestar Galactica: Galactica Redesign

Did a small amount of work on this model today. Mainly just rebuilt the hangar pods, and worked on the engines a little. Mostly it's just a lot of tweaking here and there to get the shape to look right to me. Since it's a redesign I don't have to worry about accuracy but it still has to look right proportionately. Considering how many unfinished models I have, I really don't have any business tinkering with this one, once you start greebling this is going to be as complex as a Star Destroyer...

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Avatar Update II

Got some more work done to this...

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Avatar - Update I

Got some more work done on this. All the parts have been completely rebuilt now. On to detailing now...

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Avatar WIP

Some people bashing The Empire Strikes Back, the GREATEST STAR WARS MOVIE EVER, motivated me to finally get back to polishing up my old Star Wars models. So here's the progress on the Avatar. This was supposed to be a post-ROTJ fighter, I'll have to dig up the write up I did for it on the original site and post it with the updates. Mostly I've just worked on rebuilding the cockpit and struts, the wings are untouched at this point except for the cannons.

Star Trek - USS Pandemus

There was a discussion over at TrekBBS regarding shuttle carriers and I started sketching some ideas. Well I soon drifted away from a carrier and ended up with this that I'm classifying as a repair ship. The big open bay will have doors eventually and that will be where most of the repair work would be completed. I figure that parts that are too big to fit would likely be repaired in place or the ship would have to be towed to a dockyard. The smaller cut out towards the front of the cylindrical section would be for breaking down debris that can be reconstituted into useful parts. As with all the stuff I post it's still under construction.

Star Trek: USS Bold Fury - Deck Plans

Working on a cutaway view of this ship. Trying my hand at Inkscape since I don't have the fundage for Illustrator. So far so good I think...

Star Trek: USS Edward Teller NX-27CLN Update

Got some more texture work done. Still trying to keep it subtle and yet have something there to break up the expanse of the primary hull. I'm going to add in some hatches here and there but I don't plan on any grid lines. I never really much cared for the view of the ship from the front, but this second pic here doesn't look half bad.

Star Trek: USS Edward Teller NX-27CLN Update

So I've done some more work on this one, just to break the monotony I switch back and forth between my models. I was never happy with the bridge on this thing but now I think I've struck more of happy medium between Ralph McQuarrie and more tradition Trek designs. I'm still tinkering with it. The dish telescopes out of the housing and the dome reverses itself to become the dish. That might be confusing to read but, yeah...

Oh yeah, I've gotten a couple of e-mails (which I haven't yet answered, I'm sorry) asking where's all the Star Wars stuff? I'm going to put it up, I swear, I've just been busy. I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!

So here's the pics...

TrekBBS August Challenge Update

Did a little more work on this, added some of the usual TOS decoration and piping.  Also started to work out the interior of one of the booths.

TrekBBS August Challenge

Another art contest challenge, just a model of the deck 7 visicom lounge...