Is the detail that much better than the kit’s parts, Kurt?
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HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries
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Oh, hell yes. They could be better, of course, but mine will work fine. The kit parts are all wrong, oversimplified and the wrong shapes and subjects entirely. No kit has the correct decorations, so you have to make your own. The Mantua and Amati are also incorrect for a great many of them. This is what the DeAgostini kit decorations look like.
The stern is fair but many of the decorations are still incorrect.
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Some other builder made that model using just the kit provided parts. It is exceptionally clean.Hey Kurt,
that looks really great. The planking is amazing.
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Günther
The kit looks like it builds up to a beautiful finished product OOB, but what you are accomplishing is, as the thread unabashedly states “beyond believable boundaries.” I swoon with anticipation!
Starting on the CR (Carlos Rex) badge on the beakhead. The "C R" characters are shaped from appear to be roots or tree branches. In order to model these, I am using nurb circles. Basically, a nurb circle is a circle that has a a square made of four segments that act as handles, allowing you to resize or stretch the circle into and oval. So, if you take one circle, and extrude it many times, you can create a series of cylinders which you can shrink or stretch to form the branch shape whoch forms the "C". The crown is the same one used in previous work, but the eagle was modified and re-sculpted from an online model asset.
Close to being finish with the "C". The individual branches in the "C" are made as separate objects that are merged together using the Boolean Union tool.
Once this shaping is done, the object is converted from a series of nurbs into a mesh of polygons. Then the entire "C" shape is flattened a bit and attached to the background object later.
A little smoothing using the sculpt tools, and it's done. This is all done using the most basic tools and functions in Blender, and what take so much time is finding those functions among the hundreds of features in this program.
Close to being finish with the "C". The individual branches in the "C" are made as separate objects that are merged together using the Boolean Union tool.
Once this shaping is done, the object is converted from a series of nurbs into a mesh of polygons. Then the entire "C" shape is flattened a bit and attached to the background object later.
A little smoothing using the sculpt tools, and it's done. This is all done using the most basic tools and functions in Blender, and what take so much time is finding those functions among the hundreds of features in this program.
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Your work combined with the reconstruction Marten ishould give a very very good source for a fantastic model of this fmous ship. This could be a project, where I would have a lot of fun.
I love your detailed design of the ornaments.
I love your detailed design of the ornaments.
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