Project: Traveller Mk25 Scout Cleaned up

 

I cleaned up some of the Scout's worst issues and built landing gears. After applying some Sanctus metal materials, I felt I needed a break before deciding whether to continue the build. My feelings are that it's okay. Just okay. It sometimes happens: you sketch something that you really like. You do a build that you thought captured the sketch, but in the end, it's not got "the thing".

I landed the scout ship on alien terrain, but it's not working.  Maybe it just needs a final layer of detailing and better materials.

Project: Traveller Mk25 Scout Further Progress

 The latest on the Mk25 Scout:

Overall, I still like the design, although some elements have diluted the original feel and flow. This is a tad more streamlined, and the engine nozzles have shifted inwards from the winglet tips. The biggest problem, as always, is the loss of design coherence as small details break the design purity and inconsistency of things like panelling height and width start to make things a bit messy.

The build continues, although it gets slow as I add fine detail then delete it, repeatedly.

Project: Traveller Mk25 Scout Progress

 This morning, I restarted the construction of the original sketch design. I may return to the partially completed traditional design, but not yet.

By holding back on the sub-D step and getting more controlled angles in earlier, I got a lot closer to the feel of the sketch. Onwards!

Ad Astra! This is a good mid-point

Lots of cleaning and tightening, but I'm reasonably happy with this as a start.

Project: Traveller Mk25 ships

 The idea is to build a model of each of the classic Traveller starships - Scout/Free Trader/Subsidized Liner, etc with a modern twist. I did a sketch of the new Scout ship, which I liked. Alas, I have repeatedly failed to get the form into a basic Blender model.

The ship I want to build...but haven't managed yet.

I wasted a lot of time with more traditional variants. They always reached a point where I felt I was no better off compared with the previous Scout build.

At this point, I felt like I needed to show something for my time, but I stopped hitting my head against the wall in terms of the more complex geometry of the planned design. So, I whipped up a traditional build in a couple of hours.

I'll run this to completion, but then I may restart the above design. I'll probably watch some training videos for modelling first.