Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XI

I'm still working on the hangar bay. Still lots to do there but the main structures are blocked out, now on to some of the smaller details. I'm not going to go crazy though, not likely to have views much closer than this anyway.

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update X

I was taking a break from greebles and decided to have a look at the interior of the ventral hangar bay and started thinking about where I could stick some AT AT pens and such. So I wanted to make a simple box mockup of the correct dimensions and as luck would have it, this is another one of those things where there is debate and disagreement and discord. So I went to the Technical Commentaries for guidance and settled on the size of a walker being 26 meters long, 22.6 meters high and 7.9 meters wide. I know there are some blueprints out there that give a height of about 15 meters but I think Saxton made a good point about that adjusting all of the dimensions to the point that a man would not be able to stand in the cockpit as Veers and a trooper are clearly doing, unless they were considerably shorter than we know them to be. I any case, I got distracted by the AT AT dimensions enough to want to make a still simple but more complex than a box mock up. Once I was done with that I plopped it into the Tormentor's bay and you guessed it, that bay was way too shallow to have walkers, well, walking about. So I'm splitting up the bay so the forward portion with hold fighters and the after portion will be the location of the walker pens. The large bay doors are going to be split up too so I can just open portions of the bay to outside if I want to. Here's some unimpressive pics of the new arrangement. No really... there's really not much to look at right now...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update IX

Some greebling progress and starting in on the engine section. The panel lines are still going in, they'll be a lot denser when finished but overall I'm pleased with the little progress I was able to make this weekend. Getting a really nice stockpile of greebles which will come in handy for the Imperator, Enslaver, Persecutor etc...

Star Wars: Imperial Warship Comparison Chart II

This is an updated chart now that the Tormentor has been redesigned and the Inundator has been rescaled. Of course the dimensions listed on the chart are of the unfinished models so they'll change slightly once sensor globes etc are added. The Imperator was modeled after a toy but I thought it was a good representation so if those dimensions are a little off, I'm okay with it. Blogger doesn't seem to like this images size so to see the full pic you might have to right click and "view image" then you can zoom...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update VIII

So this is probably the fourth, fifth maybe even sixth total overhaul and redesign of the Tormentor Class. I see this ship's role as more of an armored landing ship. It's able to enter the atmosphere (but not actually land) to deliver ground forces and provide support. The large hangar bay on top keeps it protected from ground fire. This time I'm happy with it from just about any view. Still at the initial paneling stage, although the trench lip is more or less done, just need some pieces here and there to tie it to the hull. Greebling should go pretty fast in the trench now that I have a lot on hand, but then I started this model in 2006 and here I am, starting it again, so we'll see...

Star Wars: Imperator & Inundator Class Updates

Well, I've finally decided to take a crack at the Imperator (Imperial) class star destroyer. I had one that I had built for the old website but like all of those models it was eyeballed and extremely inaccurate so this one will be less inaccurate. Also, I've gone ahead and rescaled the Inundator based on the scale of the details compared to the ISD. So the Inundator now comes in at 944 meters long, by 433.5 wide and 122.9 high. So here's some pics of the new ISD model with the rescaled Inundator.

Star Wars: Imperial Warship Comparison Chart

Trying to get a handle on scale, I thought this might help me to keep things in proper perspective.

Star Wars: Inundator Class Light Cruiser Update IV

After some feedback at Scifi-meshes.com I went ahead and trimmed back the parts on the conning tower. Also got a little more greebling done I'm working on the guns right now, adding another layer of detail. More pics at some point lol...

Star Wars: Persecutor Class Command Ship

Digging out another old model to rebuild. I'm just eyeballing this behemoth so the new model would best be described as slightly less inaccurate than my original lol. All I've got so far is the top and bottom portions of the hull and the rest of it is going to take a good great deal of time. Since it won't be an exact copy of the Executor, I'm going to name this one the Persecutor. And here's pics...

Star Wars: Inundator Class Light Cruiser Update III

The latest, progress has slowed because of a busy weekend, hopefully I'll be able to get back on track and have the top finished by the end of next weekend. I'm considering where to place a hangar bay. Nothing too elaborate, just enough for some fighters and shuttles, I'll leave the landing craft etc to the Imperator Star Destroyers. Starting off with a couple of pics to show the difference in size between this and my Tormentor Class, which is itself still smaller than an Imperator Class.

Star Wars: Inundator Class Light Cruiser Update II

This should really be update 1.5, just a few slight changes. I added a second heavy turbolaser battery behind and above the first one. I also made a few changes to the tower to lighten it up some, it was a bit too bulky looking for a light cruiser. Lots to do still, the engine section is almost completely untouched as is the bottom. Onward and upward... here's pics...

Star Wars: Inundator Class Light Cruiser Update I

Got some more greebling done. I'm still tinkering with ideas for the command structure so I might bring back the Venator style bridge and I'm still wanting to do something asymmetrical there just to break up the monotony. Right now the greebles are just mirrored on both sides but I'm going to mix those up, again just to break up the monotony. Anyway, here's pics...

Star Wars: Inundator Class Light Cruiser

Just taking a break from the Tormentor while I sort out some scale problems. I decided to take a swipe at an Imperial version of the Republic Light Cruiser. Using my greebles from the Tormentor and learning from all my mistakes (so far) has really helped move this little project along. Here's a couple of quick pics showing a weeks worth of progress...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update VII

The damn trench again, I know....  I was just about finished with it and as I was looking at I realized two things, first that I was slapping stuff on just to take up space so I could call it finished and not really putting forth my best effort and second, the rounded guns and platforms really were giving it a Star Blazers look that just doesn't fit with Star Wars stuff. So, I deleted all of that and have started again but here's a couple of pics showing the new trench guns, kinda reminiscent of the tower guns on the Death Star, and the heavy turbolasers more in keeping with the Avenger style guns. So with those changes this ship will appear as it would have after refits and upgrades around the ESB/ROTJ era. And here's a couple of pics....

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update VI

What? Another greeble update, I know but that's all I've had time to do lately but I am making some decent progress. I'll try to break up the monotony with the next post though. So yeah, still more greebles but I'm almost half done with the gun belt and then I'm going to tackle the engine section, which will mean more greebles (I'm sorry)...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update V

Did some more refining on the panels and I'm taking another pass at the gun belt details. I decided I might like some closeup views looking out from the gun belt at some passing fighters or such and for that I'm going to need a whole lot more greebling...

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Avatar Update V

Got some more details stuck on here and there, most of the work was done on the wing struts and wing, still a ridiculous amount to finish but I'm making some progress this weekend.

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update IV

So recently (yesterday), I rendered these two pics of my Tormentor SD and at long last I am happy with my panel lines.

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Predator - Hiding in the dust

Just playing with model and some volume lighting which didn't turn out the way I intended, but was cool in and of itself...

Star Wars: Imperial TIE Avatar Update IV

Had some time to work on this today and added a few bits of detail. Also I recently rebuilt the cockpit window and the fuselage because there were a few mesh errors that I missed earlier on. Work continues...