Star Trek - Merchantman Class-J - Type-3

gmd3d · December 14th, 2007, 01:44 AM

Keeping in with my interest in Star Trek modelling I started the Merchantman Class Ship seen in Star Trek 3 "The Search for Spock" this is a second attempt
after the first was not cutting the mustard in some areas

evil_genius_180 · December 14th, 2007, 10:14 AM

You know I love this ship and feel you're doing a most excellent job modeling it.

gmd3d · December 14th, 2007, 11:58 AM

Thats quite a complament EG180

thanks ..

Thomas P · December 14th, 2007, 01:48 PM

Nice job so far.

gmd3d · December 14th, 2007, 02:40 PM

thanks thomas.. I'll be getting back to this soon..

mikala · December 14th, 2007, 06:58 PM

Definitely need to see more of this!

gmd3d · January 18th, 2008, 12:36 AM

here is the only update one this .. don't get much time for modelling now but I think the over all shape is good to go and now moving on to detailing and hull design ...

I am going to model the details and use a basic texture for the ship later.

evil_genius_180 · January 18th, 2008, 10:03 AM

The ship looks great, T.

skyhawk223 · January 19th, 2008, 05:33 AM

From what I remember there are a lot of greeblies and doo dads on this ship. Good luck with that, but I like where it's going so far.

gmd3d · January 19th, 2008, 03:19 PM

Yes there is as far as I see ..

here is my attempt at the hull panel design

evil_genius_180 · January 19th, 2008, 08:04 PM

Looks good, T. I think the original was one big kitbash, that's why it had so much stuff on it. I know it's one of the cheapest to build ever ST ships and it's been used many times on TNG, DS9 and Voyager as well. Especially TNG. It was every third alien ship they ran across, sometimes modified, sometimes not.

gmd3d · January 20th, 2008, 04:08 PM

sound about right EG180 ... I remember spotting it from time to time

here is a more up dated one .. its a redo

Lee · January 20th, 2008, 06:06 PM

nice mesh work so far. Not really a fan of the original design but your making me change my mind abit.

evil_genius_180 · January 20th, 2008, 10:15 PM

I like that new panel pattern better.

gmd3d · January 21st, 2008, 02:35 AM

Thanks

I like the new pattern better my self when I see the two together

gmd3d · July 30th, 2008, 03:14 PM

Remember this .. I am look at it again to finish it

evil_genius_180 · July 31st, 2008, 01:02 AM

I was wondering if you were going to get back around to this one. It looks great.

gmd3d · July 31st, 2008, 05:36 AM

Well it back on my list of things to do quick .. I want to get out of modeling meshes and back to rendering asap

evil_genius_180 · July 31st, 2008, 10:02 AM

I'm usually the opposite way. I want to get out of rendering images and back to building meshes.

But you make some friggin' cool images, so I can see why you like to do it.

gmd3d · July 31st, 2008, 10:44 AM

Thanks ..

Modelling take a lot of my time and energy .. while I like it .. it does not give me the satisfaction of Rendering up a good image .. Either Trek (Which got me into cgi)
or Star Wars .. now I want some trek .. the is one other mesh I want to build but its not the Enterprise .. I may try it some time

Starship · July 31st, 2008, 04:53 PM

I was thinking that you had forgot it. It's good taht I was wrong.

The plates looks dammed cool. It's well done!

gmd3d · August 1st, 2008, 02:09 AM

No .. never forgot it .. just needed a break .. and I was distracted by the landing bay for the Galactica ..