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HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries

dnalley said:
Are they not elbows? Are they boobs?
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Yes, they are. All ships could use more of those. If your model doesn't have at least two of them on the figurehead, it's incomplete. And blender is very difficult to learn from nothing, mostly because there are so many features that you cannot locate and learn the basic modeling functions easily.
 
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Indeed ! There are limitations on what free models are available online for conversion into decorations by sculpting and modification. However, that approach is required because I am not a gifted sculpter even in 3-D modelling. One does what one can, which what one has. This is one of the many challenges of building HMS Sovereign of the Seas.
 
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DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
Indeed ! There are limitations on what free models are available online for conversion into decorations by sculpting and modification. However, that approach is required because I am not a gifted sculpter even in 3-D modelling. One does what one can, which what one has. This is one of the many challenges of building HMS Sovereign of the Seas.
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I wasn’t criticizing, Kurt. I thought that was the way they’re supposed to look.
 
Vfordyce said:
I wasn’t criticizing, Kurt. I thought that was the way they’re supposed to look.
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I know Vic! You are right, they do actually resemble the nosferatu. Frankly, I wish the faces on the original ship looked better than they do. If you guys have even some images of grotesque faces that resemble those on the Sovereign, post them or send them to me. I can convert certain photos into 3-D bas relief objects, especially if the pictures are take straight on, and not at oblique angles, such as those I used below.

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Well, I HAD to do it. The super high resolution image of Payne's engraving was printed and I made a frame, and hung it on my wall.
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The guys at the FedEx print shop had a contractor print the image directly on the foamboard, preserving the color and every detail of the original print. It's 48"x35". The print cost $136.11 USD and the frame I made myself in an hour using poplar wood wainscoting cap molding from Home Depot and gold spray paint from Ace Hardware for another $50.00. Covering the print in glass would create undesirable reflections, so the foamboard print will stay exposed as it is. The finish is a very soft semi-gloss. The image was 1.13 Gigabytes, and it was reduced a bit for printing but all the details and clarity were maintained. It only took a couple hours to make in my shop. Maybe this will give you guys some decorating ideas of your own. The side profile drawings of some model ship kits would make excellent displays.

While I was at FedEx, I had them print 1:100 scale paper prints of the Prins Willem drawings from Herman Kettings book on that ship, which another member was kind enough to provide. Those will be used instead of the Corel kit drawings, so the gun ports and other details are correct on that model when I get to it.
 
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DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
The English coat of arms for the gallery is done.
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Using the Elastic Stretch sculpting tool in Blender, I was able to stretch the lower left corner of the object and lower part of the body of the unicorn on the right until they roughly match the shape of the Payne engraving. It's not perfect, but close enough. All this detail may not be printed when the object is printed in resin since the entire carving will be approximately 20mm x 20mm.
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Hi Kurt
I'm new to this forum and just stumbled upon this post. I've already gone through almost all 100 pages hahaha, well, well, not *every single one* (let me not exaggerate), and speaking as a designer myself, I have to say you are doing an absolutely excellent job. My question for you is this: after making all those graphic adjustments, are you planning on actually producing these figures and decorations to help the ship come more to life?? Because if so, sign me up for your list—RIGHT NOW!;)ROTF I'm currently waiting for my SOTS to arrive, it will be my next project when I finish the HMS Terror, that is why I am asking you..
I'm already curious to see how a 3D printer will handle those little details. Of course, I'm sure that due to the size many of the details you manage to create in the program you're using won't actually come through. By the way, which program are you using to create the visualizations? And in what format do you save them? What I admire about that program is how it extracts the third dimension from a flat picture! Excellent work, keep posting the entire process, my friend. Please forgive me if I'm asking too many questions; I'm just curious.
Thanks in advance for your reply!
Best regards.
 
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Jacapa412 said:
Hi Kurt
I'm new to this forum and just stumbled upon this post. I've already gone through almost all 100 pages hahaha, well, well, not *every single one* (let me not exaggerate), and speaking as a designer myself, I have to say you are doing an absolutely excellent job. My question for you is this: after making all those graphic adjustments, are you planning on actually producing these figures and decorations to help the ship come more to life?? Because if so, sign me up for your list—RIGHT NOW!;)ROTF I'm currently waiting for my SOTS to arrive, it will be my next project when I finish the HMS Terror, that is why I am asking you..
I'm already curious to see how a 3D printer will handle those little details. Of course, I'm sure that due to the size many of the details you manage to create in the program you're using won't actually come through. By the way, which program are you using to create the visualizations? And in what format do you save them? What I admire about that program is how it extracts the third dimension from a flat picture! Excellent work, keep posting the entire process, my friend. Please forgive me if I'm asking too many questions; I'm just curious.
Thanks in advance for your reply!
Best regards.
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It will take me another year, possibly two, to complete the 3-D models for printing in resin. After that, I plan on making the entire set of 3-D models available for $100 or less to all modelers who are interested. That will give beginner modelers an opportunity to adorn their model of HMS Sovereign of the Seas with the appropriate decoration details. The 3-D models themselves will not be at the professional level of quality, but after tinkering with printing out the first set for myself, perhaps I can work all the bugs out so that anyone with a 3-D printer can make a decent set for themselves. At this point, I have no idea how the objects are going to appear when printed. I have never printed any objects before, so I have steep learning curve.

The program I’m using is Blender 3-D. There is an add-on called Bildeform which is used to turn a 3-D object or an image into a bas-relief object. The format of each object is your basic .STL format.
 
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