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Title: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: JimmygoesHollywood on October 25, 2010, 11:26:18 AM
Hello, this is actually my first post on this forum and i wanna show you my first selfmade model i have been working on for 1 1/2 week now and it?s not to be realesed yet, because there are at least a bunch of things i have to adjust. At the start i felt like i wanna do a klingon ship, but then it turned more and more the romulan style. So i thought, we dont know much about the romulan vessels between tos and tng :idk:, so maybe on the way from the bird of prey to the warbird, the romulans used the frame of the D7, which they know is a powerful design after having a few of the D6?s out of the short alliance with the klingons.

So i let you rate this and please be gentle  ;)
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: King Class Scout on October 25, 2010, 11:41:27 AM
the head itself needs an "aztec" (hull plating style texture) along with the windows.  a bird badge wouldn't hurt either.
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: Psyco Diver on October 25, 2010, 02:07:11 PM
The leading edges of the "wings" are really flat, could you shape them to be more like the back end of the wings?
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: JamesTiberiusKirk on October 25, 2010, 05:36:17 PM
not bad for a first
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: baz1701 on October 26, 2010, 03:54:00 AM
I'll echo JTK, Good job, far better than my first ship.
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: JimmygoesHollywood on October 26, 2010, 06:32:02 AM
Thanks alot for your comments on it. I sat down yesterday after the first response and put on the badge and realized it had no torpedolauncher/disrupterbeam. About the edges at the wings, thats a little bit more complicated, but i agree with it, it needs to be somehow more round. Has someone eventually any suggestions about details, i could add to the nacelles?
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: King Class Scout on October 26, 2010, 06:58:35 AM
other than aztecing the actuall nacelles.  leave the plasma vents and bussards as is.

also, does anyone else agree with me that the neck either needs a prop or thickened?  it looks like it'd break off in a sharp or hard turn.
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: Psyco Diver on October 26, 2010, 04:17:17 PM
agree with the neck, or shrink the head of the ship, I think either way would look good. Maybe some distrupters on the wings? So far I like it over all. I have designs in my head, I just lack the ability to model lol
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: JimmygoesHollywood on October 26, 2010, 06:56:53 PM
It?s the opposite on my side, i would be better, if i know what i am up to, so i can avoid some mistakes i make while modelling "free- hand". In fact my organic looking models have a more nice shape, because it seems more intuitive to me.
Maybe we could work on one or two of your ideas together?  :dance
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: King Class Scout on October 26, 2010, 07:56:02 PM
ditto on the lack of modeling ability (and I'm a Mechanical Draftsman!)  I'm used to a CAD format, as that's what I trained in.

oh, shrink the bird badge a hair.
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: pepperman on November 04, 2010, 09:13:12 PM
Nice start for sure!

The head looks a bit out of proportion with the rest of the ship.

I wonder what the nacells would look like if they were a bit more round versus rectanglular.

I can't tell much about the body of the birdie, what does it look like. 

Impulse engines?

Weapons?

Keep up the good work.  I am still learning mysel.
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: MarkyD on November 05, 2010, 11:45:32 AM
For your first ship  :thumbsup:  keep it up.
Title: Re: Hollywoods WIP?s TMP Romulan Warbird
Post by: Starforce2 on November 20, 2010, 10:20:50 PM
Some protruding weapons and IMHO getting rid of at least half the amount of windows you have in the nose may also not be a bad idea. Nor would the signature large plasma tube not be a bad idea.