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failurecrusade — Kothryn Guard core formation
Published: 2005-11-19 09:31:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 12361; Favourites: 152; Downloads: 733
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core formation of the kothryn guard. 4 slite cruisers, 2 dreadnoughts, 2 elite dreadnoughts, and the Kothryn flagship. additionally when the core fleet moves to a new system 3 battleships from that system are assigned to join the guard and assist in its duties.as the purpose of the guard is to uphold lusfanian law and enforce it upon all violators friend and foe alike. assigning ships from the local forces to aid in this role adds detterent to friendly forces against breaking lusfanian laws of war and engagement.
this is a potential formation for a more elaborate spacescape scene that i am currently working on.
tragically very late in the render a large flaw in this image became apparent, theres a nasty seam on the texture of the plane in the background. and im not up for waiting another +12 hours to re-render the image
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great work on them. Although they look like the imperial navy but nice colour scheme
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beautifully done, I don't make ship models really, but your work does give some inspiration to me. This gets my fave!
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While I agree with other that these are very similar to imperial navy vessels in BFG, these are some kickass designs man. I ran into a similar issue when I was on the design team for a mod and got accused of plagiarizing Command and Conquer 3's IP because I desinged a flyer similar to the Orca, caused me to leave the group. ([link] eventually was turned into [link] I also did the original designs for this [link] which they again complained about and I just found out that they decided to use it anyways, go figue...). There is nothing wrong with using other people's IP as the basis for your own, so long as the finished product is different.
I think that the problem that you've run into is that your designs don't look like something inspired by GW's ship designs, they look like GW's ship designs with some spikes thrown on and a new paint job. Harsh I know, but I think that these might need a bit more work before people will stop razzing on you. Perhaps changing up the sides a bit and altering the way that the engines are mounted might help.
And damnit, I'm now really pissed as I just found out that after complaining about my designs and my leaving the team that they used my designs!
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2 years unreplied and i apologize for that...
i definitely know that these look far too much like the BFG ships, and whenever i find my muse again i plan to completely redesign them. i drew up the concepts when i was in highschool and before i had ever seen any BFG ships basing off of ideas from old greek and roman fighting ships mixed with the broadsides of tallships such as the H.M.S. Victory... first time i did see some BFG ships i nearly shat myself, then figured i could deviate them from the base enough that they would work... turned out i was wrong.
challenge i keep running into is i want the ramming prow and want huge broadside banks. doing that without it being warhammer is a pain and i havent had the motivation to work on any 3d for a few years.
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i like the design...i just got some inspiration to write a story and am trying to visualize the main culuture thier technology etc and this was very helpful
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how cool would it be, if you could use all of those in a RTS game, or something of the like? hecka cool
you should hecka sell the ideas to a giant company for a bajillion bucks, and have them make a game, then get some of the proceedes. then make another line of ships, and do it again! genius! haha just kidding, but it would be extremely awesome
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this fleet is similar to my Howlon ships [link] , at least the prow and basic hull shape is.
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the prow roots back to ancient roman and greek warships, im sure you must have seen similar in the warhammer 40k lineups as well. for ramming ships its one fo te best ways to go imo
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I remember, though I use the prow for deflection, not ramming. I also have several BFG 40K Imperial Cruisers. Great models.
Come on and join the forum [link] and challenge some other fleets.
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sadly i really dont have the time to hop onto any new forums....
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it would be a bit of a challenge (even though the sizee of the ships) to ram something, when the tip is tapered, but if you were to hit the broadside of a larger ship, it would surely crack it in two.. crazy
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too bad the entire fleet is being redone.
if it had anything whatsoever to do with bfg then it might have been a different tale
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That wasn't the angry reaction I was expecting.
Still, good designs.
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nah the comment i read on a diferent shot, right after i read the one from you is the one that ended up with the reameage.
I know there is a BFG resembleance, took me years to accept it, but i did decide that because of it redesign's are in order.
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The resemblence isn't that strong. Aside from utilizing the signature bow, which obviously didn't originated with BFG, your designs are fairly original.
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i plan to change the bow even further from the tradition, keep the obvious ram look, yet give it a slightly different set of lines.
my ego has been set aside on the matter and i know that the similarity is undeniable. so even if the uniqueness of these designs can be appreciated, the redesign will leave me satisfied
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Man - YOU ROCK. The best 3d ships i ever saw. You should make graphics for movies or something.
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before long i certainly hope to be doing jsut that
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LOL!! I Have to laugh because I'm beside myself! This is INCREDIBLE! Quite a fleet! Great work!
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well thats flattering! thank you muchly!
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my dog spot that is freaken awesome how did you construct them
i only ever used many pre made model parts to make something new
but this is far beyond anything ive ever produced
well done
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3ds max7. combinations of mesh, poly and nurbs. and about 2 weeks of work. what program do you typically model with???
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program lol i acually thought they were scale models hehe
so its all software generated it really looked as if it were a real object if you fooled me then wow that is really well done very well done
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damn thats probably the best comment ive yet received! i do actually plan on making a physichal model of the "kothryn flagship" 100% scratchbuild, still in the stage of figureing out the process before starting the actual work as various modeling compounds are quite expensive, but itll happen
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nice i really look forward to seeing the finished product yeah that reminds me i wanted to build a dragon or something along those lines out of wire sheet metal and a mig welder but its too damn cold now outside to do fuck all lol for im gonna have to wait till spring
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nah start a fire and then weld all day! use the fire to keep warm....though i owuldnt likely go outside for a whole lot of anyhting at this point in time...so cant expect you to...can us expectant little veiwers expect the dragon someitme in the spring or summer?
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humm a fire might work ill look into it but ark-welding im a wiz at it id think it would be hard to us fire in how i wanted to make it ie individual scale made of metal with little wire frame id definatly look into using fire it would save the eyes (its a given itd use a mask but its bloody hard to see any thing with it unless polarized lezes are used and even those can be a pain) but hey i got plenty of time to figure what im going to do.
thanks for the ideas
l8r man
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LOL...the fire is onlly sposed to keep you warm!!! but i do know of a large number of metlaworkers who have used a propane forge for most of their work...and those give off a massive amoount of heat.
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Love the ship designs. Rendering is as superb as the models themselves!
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thank you very much! still needs a bit of work and this image will be updated before too much longer, just need the time to wait on the render
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nah these are mine. ive got a story im working on called "bloodstained stars" its been growing in my head scince late 2000
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wow wow. put this in a scene and I'll fav it a 10 times over man!
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thats me plan!!! working still on a nebula scene to throw the fleet into.
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amazing is that it didnt crash mid render
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so you rendered this whole thing? not just the individual ships, the copy or cut them, and paste it here? WOAW
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does anyone else feel like you could just reach in and grab one of these and start playing with it?
anyone?
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on that not i may be able to have models built of these things...in which case i would of course begin selling them!
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dude if I had models of these-it'd be sick
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ill let you know soon as it happens if it happens, well strike a deal and youll get the model! tragically it looks like its going to be pricey to make them
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well thannk you!!! and thanks for the fav on it as well!
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a few questions
1) is the Kothryn fleet the earth's or is the war between the Kothryns and the lusfanians having nothing to do with earth
2) how do you make the different parts of the ships ( my guess: uv-bitmap for blueprints but they're too complex and curvy)
3) exactly how awesome is this whole thing gonna be. because my awesom-pacitator can only take about 4000 insanules.\
4)do you ever draw anymore, and if you do, post it.
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