Dennis Bailey's Dawnstar Class- Remodelled

January 8th, 2004, 09:24 AM

Hi all, this is my first post here at 3DG. Those of you who don't know me, I'm a member at Scifi-meshes.com.

Anyway, I was quite taken with the design of Dennis's original Dawnstar mesh, and decided I just had to model it. I did ask permission of course, the answer was yes, and I decided to post the WIP here on Dennis's suggestion that I do so.

Anyway, here's what I have so far. I'm sticking pretty closely to the original design, but will deviate from it in certain areas.

And so it begins....

skyhawk223 · January 8th, 2004, 01:09 PM

Welcome JDR. Nice to have you here.
First off, I would like to see your progress, but one can only view the ship if you are a scifi-meshes member of which I am not. Also, might not want to link as it does take up bandwidth.
I am interested in seeing the ship. Do you have some web space that you can upload the images to, then link to that?

Thomas P · January 8th, 2004, 01:46 PM

Welcome, looks good so far. (yeah, I have a SFM account

- never post though, just lurk

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General Phoenix · January 8th, 2004, 02:31 PM

You could just link to the thread you posted in - that way we could view the images without having to go through the whole registration process...

January 8th, 2004, 11:17 PM

^Okay, I didn't realize you wouldn't be able to see the pics. Damn, I think you still won;t be able to view the pics even if I link to the forum: the new version of VB doesn't allow non-members to view pics for some reason.

Okay, anyone know of a free picture-hosting site that I can upload my WIP images to? I don't have any web space of my own.

January 9th, 2004, 05:49 AM

I'll lend you some space, as long as you don't use a lot of bandwidth.

PM me and I'll sort it out.

January 16th, 2004, 09:55 AM

Okay, sorry about the delay in updates. I know most of you are unable to see the images, but thanks to Proximo, I can show them to you now.

Feedback and criticism are welcome.

skyhawk223 · January 16th, 2004, 11:45 AM

Looks pretty true to the original so far. One question, though...why remake the ship?

January 16th, 2004, 02:19 PM

I love this ship...always have. Though please say there'll be no purple involved... :-P

January 16th, 2004, 09:19 PM

^@ both posts above:

Why remake the ship? Well, so I can make a really clean new mesh with modelled details. The original mesh is such a great design, but its pretty old now, and I reckon this could be done to the quality of say, EBOLII, Hobbes or Vektor's superb models.

And as for purple, I'm going for blue warp grills. Maybe I'll put a hint of purple in there as an homage to the original, but we'll see.

January 30th, 2004, 09:38 AM

Update time. Things are coming along nicely as you can see.

General Phoenix · January 31st, 2004, 11:12 PM

Nice work on the bridge - looks very clean and well detailed.

February 3rd, 2004, 10:24 AM

I like the shape and lines of this one, keep at it...

February 9th, 2004, 05:17 AM

Very good work.

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