Garfish: Possible Final.

Just when I thought I might be done. It was brought to my attention the heavy lift thrusters that was used in "Ghost Town" to get this ship off the ground. This also reminded me of the door to get into the Garfish. I put three heavy lift thrusters on the lower side of the hull both on the port and starboard sides. Four forward and only two aft.
The doors are just a little forward of the very front port and starboard windows. I did put in probably more detail into them than you can see here in the render.

I also did a test 1/2400 scale on Shapeways this afternoon to see how much it would cost in Frosted Ultra Detail.
It would cost a little over $36 and be 3 inches in length. In White Plastic it would be $8 and a lot of tweaking to get it to print. The amount of detail put into this ship would disappear.

Minor Up-date: I redesigned the turret with a rounded peg that will be inserted into the turret's base. My hope is that this can be magnetized to give us some turret rotation

More Garfish

Here is another perspective shot of the Garfish. I am still not sure about the main engine thruster positions. I am currently open to second opinions on this matter. I also spent some time breaking this ship up into portions for a possible shapeways printing. The Grand total to print this ship out to 1/285th scale would be $2,098. Granted this ship would be 24 inch long when assembled but $2,100 dollars? Yeah, not happening via Shapeways, not for the quality that you will get.

Anyways I am looking into a few local 3D Printing companies around my area. My guess is anything would be cheaper than what Shapeways is currently offering at their detail level. For that price you could buy a printer and do it your self.

Garfish Break Down

Now it is time to break down the Garfish into manageable sections. I still need to pull all the engines out and build in pegs so the parts line up correctly when assembled. The Upper Mech Bay and the Lower Hanger Section are two pieces. This will allow me to change out the lower section to other ship configurations (Sensor Pod etc..)

Garfish Day 7

Poly Count: 310,000
Over all shape of the ship is now in place. Time to go back and add in more details.

Garfish Day: 6

Poly Count: 260,000

Getting closer finishing the Garfish. I am going to touch up the smaller engine fins since they seem to have to much of a hook to them. All the Aft ribbing still needs to be put in place and I still need to add in some more details around the main engines.

Garfish Day 5

Poly Count: 238,0
I have the basic out line of the ship in place. Still have a lot of detail work I still need to do. Get the main thruster fins in place and all of the ribbing between the upper and lower hull.

The image in the middle was rendered in "day light" this gives you a better idea of the detail you would see on the object. My normal blue tinted render adds a slight metallic look to it which can make some of those fine details seem to disappear unless you really zoom in.

Garfish Day 4

 

 



Current Poly Count 176,000

Well I went back and started adding in more details to the lower hanger / mech bay section. I also got the fins in place for the thrusters. Speaking of thrusters, I should really go back and add in more detail to the out side of the thruster bell. It looks good now, but just a little more added detail would really make it shine.

Other things to address is making the six missile launchers more curved / rounded, currently they are to squared off and a little more curves would go a long way.

I still have plenty of work that needs to be done in this area before I move on to the aft section of this ship.

Garfish Day 3

 

 

I thought I should pick up where I left off over a year ago. I still need to detail out the lower engines and add in the fins. So far this model is sitting around 136,000 polys and it is coming along nicely.