Excelsior WIP

[lint]

started this a couple weeks ago, was'nt happy with the nacelles so i scrapped them,
polycount is 20k, after i do the nacelles and pylons it should be around 24k maybe 25.
And no im not planning on doing a Lakota/Ent B refit so you will just hafta make do with this one....for now ;).
If you want to texture her let me know, I have come to despise texturing as of late

[Aeries]

FINALLY! An uber-cool excelsior to play with!

WOOT WOOT!

She's VERY pretty, I must say. Cant wait to see the Nacelles on her, too! ^_^

-Aeries.

[lint]

im doing them as i type this, if all goes well you wont have to wait too long to see

[Aeries]

Excellent news! To be honest, my Mithra's been boring me... so redundant in rebuilding the deflector. Maybe if I give texturing a go, it might be a nice change of pace... Never textured before, though... just a thought. I tend to type my thoughts... kinda like thinking aloud...

ANYWAYS! Yes. Can't wait. ^_^;;

-Aeries.

[lint]

keep at it man, if you end up thinking like that you will end up with a dozen un-finished models like me and you wont know where to begin when it comes time to finishing them,  :lol:

[Asylum]

it looks sweet so far

[lint]

thanks fella's,
nacelles done, i wanna do a little tweaking on them before im fully happy though.
I also assigned some vertex colours to bring out the details a little more..

[yanlou]

shes going to be a beauty, 

[Adonis]

...and the paintjob is already wrong...*runs*

[lint]

it was'nt even an attemp at a paint job, haha,
like i said, just vertex colours

[Asylum]

Looking good man  8)

necelles look great.

[cordanilus]

Now that looks amazing.  Good looking excelsior you have there.

[Aeries]

how... did I know... she'd be so beautiful!?!?!?!

D*mn, some of the models you guys make around here, it's inspiring.

Edit: And thanks for the tip... I do tend to start projects, get them looking AMAZING, but then just give up... and wind up with a huge stack of unfinished projects. (I'm particularly bad with sketches and other visual artwork... )

[intrepid90]

uuuh, I love all your models, lint.,..
but my notebook doesn't
playing them in battle is rather a slideshow..

[Billz]

Are you just doing the one ship, or will it be a pack of the ships with different registeries?

For someone who hates Fed ships, you are doing a great job on this one. :p

[intrepid90]

am I right when i say that all existing excelsiors have horrible textures??
At least the KM 1.0 has..

[DJ Curtis]

it's looking goods, but the deflector isn't quite right by the looks of 'excelwip2.jpg'.  The hull should curve slightly at the edges of the deflector housing.  In other words, if you were looking at it from the side, the deflector would look as though it pulled inwards a little bit.  Would you mind posting an orthographic side view so that I can have a better look?  I could be wrong.

[lint]

i would'nt say i hate doing fed ships, its just that pretty much everyone is doing fed ships and apart from DJ working on his klingon ship i get kinda bored of seeing the federation stylings apposed to to charm of Klingon and Romulan ships,  :lol:
Im open to the idea of Releasing a few different registries and hp's, Its something ill discuss when and IF i find someone todo textures for her,
And here are some more pics DJ, i think i have the nacelles mounted a little to high and forward, but i still have to do a little more work on them..

[Aeries]

The nacelles are mounted a tad too close to the bow, try draggin' them back a little bit.

Here's a reference I stumbled upon if you need it. ^_^

http://www.shiporama.org/excelsior.htm

There's one or two useful pics, with a few shots of the studio model. Best of luck!

-Aeries.

[lint]

thanks man, very useful