Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XVIII

Greeble greeble greeble... threw some more on here and there...

AT-AT Transport Shuttle Update 9-13-15

Got a little work done to the front of this now. I was thinking of maybe a missle launcher or something to help fill up the area where the cockpit/crew module meets the body of the shuttle but I decided against it. I imagine that this needs every spare centimeter to power the engines so that it can pull an AT-AT around.

AT-AT Transport Shuttle Update 8-23-15

Some more work done on the AT-AT shuttle.

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XVII

Redesigned the conning tower. I'll miss those shield generators sticking out behind the bridge but they just weren't working for me anymore. I might revisit that idea on the Inundator.

AT-AT Transport Shuttle Update 8-17-15

Taking another swipe at this...

Star Wars: AT-AT Transport Shuttle

So I've been kicking around some ideas for an AT-AT transport shuttle that isn't so ridiculously sized that it won't fit in the hangar. I'm still deciding on a design but here's a few that I've played with so far...

Star Wars: Type 7B - Prowler Shuttle

Something old and something new, this is the Prowler shuttle that I had on the old site, redesigned and still a work in progress. I see this is something less grand than the Lambda shuttles, something for the lower ranking officers to use to get between ships and bases.

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XVI

Episode 16 in the seemingly never ending saga of the Tormentor. Added some sensors to the tower and a few more greebles to the superstructure. The size of the model in polygons is starting to slow the progress so I've been breaking it down into more manageable parts to speed things up again. Going to try and push to get the topside finished in a month (lol) because the bottom is still untouched.

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XV

Been a while since I posted anything, so here's another Tormentor pic. I know in the last post, months ago, I said I had some Inundator stuff to post but I ended up tearing down the model and ended up with a lot less than I started out with so that will take some rebuilding before I have anything worth posting. My dad had some health issues (thankfully resolved now) and all the worrying just left me exhausted by the end of each day so model building got pushed to the wayside for a while, but I'm getting back to it now so, maybe, it won't be so long between posts. Anyway, here's a pic!

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XIV

Got some work done on the engine section, mostly on the small auxiliary engines. Added a few more bits to the front of the superstructure and did a little more with the hangar. I've kinda stalled on the hangar though, the floor is giving me trouble, not getting the reflections I want, but I'm not going to tinker with it too much longer, I still have the AT-AT bays to finish and I have to finish out the forward portion of the bay. I've decided I'll have two bays (one on either side) in the side trenches. Those will be for bombers, interceptors or anything else that doesn't fit in the regular TIE bay. Next post is going to be Indundator related, and then I'm going to post some fighter stuff. Anyway, here's pics...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XIII

Did some rebuilding of the hangar bay. Separated the bay into a larger main bay aft of a smaller bay. The AT-AT's and their carriers work out of the main bay and also the TIE fighter's launch from there. I still have to add in a couple of side bays for some small craft stowage. I'm pleased with how it's turning out so far, still lots of stuff to do but not much more in the way of small details since you won't see those anyway. In fact I put in some doors in the bulkhead at the end of the TIE rack gantry's but I stopped working on them because they're obscured by all the stuff connected to the racks and gantry anyway. So, I determined that TIE's will launch out of the main bay and be recovered in the forward bay, then go down below the forward bay deck for servicing and back up along the tracks to the main bay ready for another launch. There are four holes at the end of the gantry to allow four pilots to enter their fighters at a time. With four racks abreast and conceivably 12 pilots suited up and ready, you could launch a whole squadron real quick (I think). Anyway, here's a couple of pics...

Star Wars: Tormentor Class Imperial Battlecruiser Update XII

Not a lot of new work done but I did install the guns... (on one side anyway, no fair attacking on the opposite side)... a little more paneling done too... I'm going to try and finish off the greebles on the superstructure this week (lol I know... stop...)

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...