June Challenge - Laurie - Noobie
 

Hi guys im gona give this a go... its gona be heavy duty air/land veichle, here is some concept:

Worked on the main thrusters.. this is my first experience with NURBS ... i actually like them.. never thought i would but there being very kind to me at the moment.. any surgestoins so far.. i dont quite know how to get the tube dents running up the main section.... COS is very powerfull and i think i might use those:

Done a bit of work on it this morning.. any comments would be cool =)

nice start laurie. So far matches your art.

Nurbs hey! tricky little sods them, but keep going mate and all will be ok

Im making my model in NURBs, I like them and Im sick of using polys for the last 2 weeks.

To cut out your indentations; create two circles and project them around the middle of the surface. Then trim out the middle part. Create a cylinder for the lower indented surface and a flat circle for the top and bomttoms of the indented surface.

Alternatively, just insert isospams and cale them inwards.

thats cool it looks like the spaceship the used in the movie SPACEBALLS haha :cool:

HAHA.. ooh yeh, have to love that film, here is what ive added, its gona have tank track type things so it can move on ground to :D, but i need big help on how to do those please.. ive seen some other guys do them.. but i dont know how :(, i dont need them animated just tracks.

Latest update.. second carrage coming next then cabin then im adding loads and loads and loads of detail.

Quick update guys: please comment.. i think im just gona add lots of equipment to the thing now and add detail.. i figured why not spend the time making what i have more interesting instead of extending it :) I probably wont win but im having great fun doing this and its my first mechanical thing.. ive stuck to organics for ages now.

second Piccy

Looks pretty nice so far, like the treds, you were able to stay pretty in line with your sketch. nice start,
Brian

hey, no fair. urs puts mine to shame. Are u sure u should be in the newbie section. Hehe. Good job man.

I been modeling for a bit, but maya for like a few weeks and the treads where somthing new to me, and trust me, i cant texture for my life (or render) so im really worried about that =(

I like the treads! Nice.

one suggestion would be to subdivide the main body some. not necessary smoothing, but more poly count. so the patched are not so big. maybe that is where those lines comes from in renders.