Vaygr Missile Corvette

[conand81]

Well, lets just say it's not coming along as smoothly as anticipated, but I guess that was to expect since I don't have much experience in this.
I've done some quick'n dirty unfolds on everything on the model, so that they should in theory all be foldable(but not without fret). But I'm currently focusing all my time(which could be more) on the "main-body", if you remember my pic from the other thread, and I've come to some insight...
I printed out and did a test-fold of the Body yesterday, and I tried to complete it as fast as I could, took about an hour and a half. But during that time I had two or three "close encounters" with rage(nothing happened, but I felt it boiling underneath), and I'm usually a Very calm and collected individual - guess the fact that it was late at night and I was low on food could have had something to do with it as well - but I think those irritating moments told me that the unfold was faulty, at best... so the little insight would be that if I can complete a model, while doing it as fast as I can, without major irritation; that would mean it's a quite good unfold.

This is the unfold that I printed out and which momentarily had me boiling with anger: Screenie1
was while adding the B-C1-part that I was having the most trouble, might have been better if I added it before B-B1, but I'm not sure.
The assembled piece, a little bent, but in one piece, was a speed-build after all. Note: printed in lowest quality possible.

This is how it looks today: Screenie2
I'll rework it a little bit more before trying another test-printout, I'll probably not have those thin white parts separate, easier with one side of them attached to a larger piece I reckon.

[Auris]

GREAT WORK what i see.

try to cut holes in the white fields. great for small ajustments when gluing and much easier to get the parts in the right form. look at my pic A.I.´s (kushan motership for exaple)

[conand81]

Oh yeah, that'd help, but I reckon not all ppl are that smart, so I'll try and do it as easy as possible without using clever hacks like that.

[Auris]

with the holes in the "white" fields its much easier to glue big parts together. the gabs? (german: Spalte) between the pieces will be minimal. if you let it solid without exact cutlines, what is verry difficult, the gabs can be realy big. (see pic A.I from the "mover"). it worked perfect!

i will do a pic A.I. (whow, another one:-)) when i build this ship!

[yessmasster]

auris said:

the gabs? (german: Spalte)

the word is "gaps" (plural) or "gap" (singular)

[conand81]

I know what you meant, so I say again, if I make my models so they can 'almost only' be assembled that way, then not many people will be able to put them together with reasonable gaps since I expect them not to know of that method.

[conand81]

A little heads up, I'm having a pal visiting over the weekend, and we're going to play his Wii all day and all night long! So don't expect any progress this weekend. ^^;

[yessmasster]

conand81 said:

A little heads up, I'm having a pal visiting over the weekend, and we're going to play his Wii all day and all night long! So don't expect any progress this weekend. ^^;

have fun, m8!!!

[conand81]

Hey, I'm back from the realm of the absent~... or something. We played "Star Wars Rebel Strike(Rogue Squadron III)" in cooperative-mode/(split-screen) basically the whole time, damn it was a lot of fun! Just have one thing to say: A-Wings for great justice! (and yeah, that's a gamecube game we played on his Wii.)

Anyhow, late at night now, he just left an hour ago... so tomorrow it should start happening things again.

[TheGlove]

I used to spend hours and hours getting those gold medals at Rogue Squadron for the PC, to bad it became a console-only franchise.

[conand81]

Yeah, a damn shame, for sure.

Well, today I think I've managed to nail the engine-module, on the first try no less, have some pics:
NOTE: yet again, concept build, so it's lowest printing quality and I was sloppy when folding it... so no b****ing.




Tomorrow I'll try putting the bridge-module together, as seen in the last picture.
I also need to start working on the missile launchers, think they might be the trickiest part. >_<

[Auris]

engine looked difficult, but i see no better way to unfold atm. great work, and can´t wait for the download!!

[conand81]

Yupp, it was kind of tricky, but I'm really pleased; it comes together rather smoothly considering the complexity of the part.

[conand81]

Well, made some progress today too, the .pdo is starting to look really fine: Picture here

Folded the bridge today as well, not pretty, same as with the body... not easy, but doable. I've made some new unfolds for both the body and bridge, I'll try them out later this week.
Also, I made an unfold for the Launchers as you could see in my screenie from pepakura in this post, I actually think that unfold is foolproof, almost no way you can do that wrong (sure, there's plenty of ways if you're 'not the sharpest tool in the shed').

[conand81]

Btw, I've been wondering, how much time would be reasonable for me to take on this little project? I almost feel like I'm holding out on you guys... I've been at it for a week now... not getting antsy or something I hope?