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Vattalus — Valkyrie Heavy Cruiser

Published: 2013-04-27 11:19:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 28013; Favourites: 318; Downloads: 532
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Description Heavy Cruiser
Carries a sqadron of 116 fighters, 48 bombers, dozens of RADs (Robotic Attack Drone), Reconnaissance Probes, and 2 Dragon class Dropships.
Length: 760m
Crew: ~3000 officers + pilots

Cruisers are versatile warships, larger than Destroyers but smaller than Battleships or Carriers.
They can fulfill a number of roles: patrol, escort... but they shine as a rapid response unit.
Armed with huge anti-capital projectile cannons you would expect to see mounted on much larger capital ships,
together with their impressive propulsion system, taking up about a quarter of the ship, and onboard fighter/bomber support
they are very capable and efficient if used correctly.

Modelled in Solidworks, textured and rendered in C4D. Part of a project to create a fleet of spaceships, and feature them in an animation.
If you like it, check out my gallery.

Credits to svenniemannie for his hull texture [link]
some other textures i used: [link] and [link]
model of turrets inspired by [link]
background from [link]
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Comments: 22

MASCH-ART [2016-02-19 06:16:21 +0000 UTC]

nice job and work;

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oromis95 [2013-10-15 19:02:22 +0000 UTC]

I'd like to use this image for a non profit forum, of course you will keep the credit.

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Vattalus In reply to oromis95 [2013-10-15 20:49:07 +0000 UTC]

by all means, please send me a message with the link (just out of curiosity)

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oromis95 In reply to Vattalus [2013-10-17 14:34:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man. As soon as I post it I will.

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ChinaEmpire [2013-05-10 03:52:43 +0000 UTC]

This is one of the best 3D spaceship I ever seen before! Great Job! I have couple questions, how long did you take to learn all those stuffs like modeling and texture from Beginner to master? And how long does it take to render?

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Vattalus In reply to ChinaEmpire [2013-05-10 07:18:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! glad you like it! Well, first off, it took me about a month to model and texture, but i also worked on Aurora in parallel, so about 3 weeks. This render took about 3 hours i think, but that's because i did it on my laptop, on other machines it should be way faster.

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ChinaEmpire In reply to Vattalus [2013-05-12 23:31:13 +0000 UTC]

Great! But how long did you take to learn all those stuffs with 3D software?

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Vattalus In reply to ChinaEmpire [2013-05-13 09:26:16 +0000 UTC]

These 2 were my first 3D projects, before that i hardly did any modeling. So it took me about a month and a half to learn modeling and complete the 2 ships you see on my channel.

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ChinaEmpire In reply to Vattalus [2013-05-13 18:26:05 +0000 UTC]

Cool! Keep the good work! you are talented!

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CountAdolfo [2013-04-30 18:10:41 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, this is a hell of a ship. Wow.
I write Sci Fi - this is epic - on par with anything in the genre

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Vattalus In reply to CountAdolfo [2013-05-01 06:52:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! i'm really glad you like my work

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CountAdolfo In reply to Vattalus [2013-05-01 07:50:30 +0000 UTC]

you're very talented

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JakeBondage [2013-04-30 18:01:02 +0000 UTC]

she's even sweeter than the Aurora!!! Wow

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Vattalus In reply to JakeBondage [2013-05-01 06:53:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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JakeBondage In reply to Vattalus [2013-05-01 07:51:06 +0000 UTC]

yw

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KeeFox [2013-04-30 13:46:35 +0000 UTC]

Ooh, I'm glad to see more of these.

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Hunter2045 [2013-04-28 05:19:40 +0000 UTC]

Nice job.

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Vattalus In reply to Hunter2045 [2013-04-28 06:38:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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dcmstarships [2013-04-27 18:55:08 +0000 UTC]

You modelled that in SolidWorks? You are much better at that 3D program than I ever was!

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Vattalus In reply to dcmstarships [2013-04-27 18:57:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot! yeah, it was all done in solidworks, and when i finished, i exported to C4D for rendering.

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Vattalus [2013-04-27 18:29:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the input! Yeah, i agree, i'll change the crew number

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ArmamentDawg [2013-04-27 18:03:46 +0000 UTC]

Looks promising- at the very least, it has guns on the ventral surface as well as the dorsal. A crew of 1000 seems small for so large a ship, however.

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