HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries
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Also from my side a very Happy Birthday 
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Enjoy your day.
. Enjoy your day.
My best wishes for a happy birthday Kurt.
Thanks guys !
Happy Birthday Kurt!
Enjoy - JUST don't start glowing in the dark drinking the wrong Kool-Aid - lol
Good advice!
Finished work on this panel.
After looking at the van de Velde drawing, I will have to replace the draped cloth with two nereids on either side of the globe. This will be a huge challenge for me in Blender, making my first human figures. I need to come up with a method that works.
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The problem with sculpting human figures from scratch in Blender for a beginner like me is enormous and terrifying. So, I have to cheat. I downloaded a human figure to use for the nereids (water nymphs) and started a tutorial on adding an internal skeleton of bones to deform it with. Add clothes to the figure is a problem to be dealt with later. Because of the small size of the carvings, 1 cm tall, the folds of clothes could be simply simulated by sculpting the body mesh later, and the results should be good enough. I inserted a "basic human" skeleton which the Rigify Tool in Blender already comes with. Soon, the bones will be posed to bend the figure into the upper body poses shown in the van de Velde drawing.
The legs of each nereid are separate, long fish tails. I can use the fishtail from the previous model as the basis to form those, and find a way to attach them to the torso. Making 3-D models at this level of detail for decorations that are typically simple, carved base reliefs for the Sovereign of the Seas is serious overkill, since much of the details will not show up in the resin printing, but it's a skill I need to develop to be able to create decorations which experienced carvers seem to create so easily. This topic may not be strictly model ship construction, but you may be interested in how I learn to create these decorations as I make them should they choose this method to make model parts.
The legs of each nereid are separate, long fish tails. I can use the fishtail from the previous model as the basis to form those, and find a way to attach them to the torso. Making 3-D models at this level of detail for decorations that are typically simple, carved base reliefs for the Sovereign of the Seas is serious overkill, since much of the details will not show up in the resin printing, but it's a skill I need to develop to be able to create decorations which experienced carvers seem to create so easily. This topic may not be strictly model ship construction, but you may be interested in how I learn to create these decorations as I make them should they choose this method to make model parts.
Good morning Kurt. A very belated Happy birthday.. Cheers Grant
Thanks Grant!
Here is the results of a few hours of posing the new figures. The torsos are in position. The sculpting tools were used to pull out and shap the hair on the left nerierd. Next is creating the fishtail legs.
Here is the panel re-done.
It took two days to remake this panel, because of the new functions learned in Blender, but it was worth it.
It took two days to remake this panel, because of the new functions learned in Blender, but it was worth it.
Haa... you are addicted to those 3D drawings, I can see that.
And now for your listening pleasure, the newest Sea Shanty.... Yes, I'm in that kind of mood. Tired of looking at zillions of triangles...
On to the Gemini panel. I bought a 3-D model of a baby for $12 and used the bones feature in blender to reposition the boduy and limbs to create the same poses of the Gemini twins in the Payne engraving and the van de Velde drawing (below).
Finished model, flattened into a bas relief. The background decoration behind the twins is next.
Finished model, flattened into a bas relief. The background decoration behind the twins is next.
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
So any thoughts of selling your 3D work to others building this same ship?
Maybe help pay for costs of getting data needed for design work.
Maybe help pay for costs of getting data needed for design work.
Yes, that was the plan from the start, to make them available and inexpensive. The 3-D models are not professional. My topology sucks. I'm a beginner. But, they will work.
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Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Well they would be better than what was original there or what I could design.
I have a resin 3D printer and am still learning how to get good products off from it.
I have a resin 3D printer and am still learning how to get good products off from it.