Friday, 19 January 2024

The first rule of blocking out club is...

 Don't detail. You are blocking out!!

I broke the rule.


This is maybe the fifth attempt at the Andrew Boulton-class Light Cruiser from Charles E. Gannon's excellent Terran Federation novels. 

Andrew Boulton-class Light Cruiser

Oh oh! Too much fine detail on the command module

It's a hard habit to stop, it seems. I'll go back to the big elements. The colour shifts are not surface changes. They're lots of Boolean slices. It might be a silly way to divide a hull, but it does sidestep mesh difficulties. We'll see what happens when we try to attach decals.

Obligatory landscapes




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