Post by GreatDane on Nov 9, 2007 20:00:03 GMT -5
Hi there paper modeling friends!
During the building of my own Vaygr corvette fleet I took a brief side step.
(to preserve my fingertips from beeing carved up to badly
)
I remembered a single shot of a Vaygr probe on the Homeworld shipyards site, which I found rather nice looking. As there was no model available, I started on creating a model myself. Converting it into an unfoldable model was no easy task, as I found out. When I imported the model from 'Meta' to Pepakura multiple edges on the front part of the probe were unable to be joined. It took me a few evenings going back and forth from 'Meta' to 'Pepa' to fix all edges, replacing several faces with newly created ones.
(supposedly the designers were planning on adding a vaygr badge on one side, or so it seems, as one faulty side had a large square face which created one of the problems)
Luckily for me the textures didn't get all messed up during this process, which usually does happen on other occaisions....
This is what I came up with:
The first two are 'Meta' views, the third is the 'Pepa' model.
During a brief vacation I took a week ago, I started building the probe (still a Beta version) and I must say that I'm quite pleased with the outcome:
These pictures were taken back home, sorry, no construction pics were taken back then... I've added card stock to the inside of all major faces which worked pretty well, even for a model this size.
(19.2cm, or pepakura scale set to 10. My corvettes are set to scale 5; which makes this model twice the scale size as my corvettes!)
The model features 5 bulkheads (2 front, 1 mid, 2 rear) that can be freely positioned inside the model, with a bit of fitting due to paper thicknesses. Again, this worked out nice for me too.
The lens, or 'eye', sensor on the front was inserted (it's too long after all) after I carefully drilled a hole with my trusty Dremel tool.
Back home I came up with a nice solution on how to attach the antennea onto the hull: First I cut a 'spine' from heavy (grey) card stock that would fit inside the large bottom antenna. Next, this spine would go vertically through the hull, and stick out through the top at an angle, onto which the top antenna would fit. After that the last bottom antenna would be added to the rear.
I do hope I got the antennea positions right, as I haven't played HW2 till the end, yet
Well, what do you think?
I think it went well, considering I build most of it in two evenings during vacation in a holiday cottage.
I have send the files to both Auris and Yessmaster, once again with alternate colors as well. Though still a Beta version, it's easy to build, of you don't mind the itty-bitty small parts at the front. (just be patient, and you'll do well)
I've checked Yessmasters site recently, and it's not been added yet, but I guess it will be shortly.
During the building of my own Vaygr corvette fleet I took a brief side step.
(to preserve my fingertips from beeing carved up to badly
)I remembered a single shot of a Vaygr probe on the Homeworld shipyards site, which I found rather nice looking. As there was no model available, I started on creating a model myself. Converting it into an unfoldable model was no easy task, as I found out. When I imported the model from 'Meta' to Pepakura multiple edges on the front part of the probe were unable to be joined. It took me a few evenings going back and forth from 'Meta' to 'Pepa' to fix all edges, replacing several faces with newly created ones.
(supposedly the designers were planning on adding a vaygr badge on one side, or so it seems, as one faulty side had a large square face which created one of the problems)
Luckily for me the textures didn't get all messed up during this process, which usually does happen on other occaisions....
This is what I came up with:
The first two are 'Meta' views, the third is the 'Pepa' model.
During a brief vacation I took a week ago, I started building the probe (still a Beta version) and I must say that I'm quite pleased with the outcome:
These pictures were taken back home, sorry, no construction pics were taken back then... I've added card stock to the inside of all major faces which worked pretty well, even for a model this size.
(19.2cm, or pepakura scale set to 10. My corvettes are set to scale 5; which makes this model twice the scale size as my corvettes!)
The model features 5 bulkheads (2 front, 1 mid, 2 rear) that can be freely positioned inside the model, with a bit of fitting due to paper thicknesses. Again, this worked out nice for me too.
The lens, or 'eye', sensor on the front was inserted (it's too long after all) after I carefully drilled a hole with my trusty Dremel tool.
Back home I came up with a nice solution on how to attach the antennea onto the hull: First I cut a 'spine' from heavy (grey) card stock that would fit inside the large bottom antenna. Next, this spine would go vertically through the hull, and stick out through the top at an angle, onto which the top antenna would fit. After that the last bottom antenna would be added to the rear.
I do hope I got the antennea positions right, as I haven't played HW2 till the end, yet
Well, what do you think?
I think it went well, considering I build most of it in two evenings during vacation in a holiday cottage.
I have send the files to both Auris and Yessmaster, once again with alternate colors as well. Though still a Beta version, it's easy to build, of you don't mind the itty-bitty small parts at the front. (just be patient, and you'll do well
)I've checked Yessmasters site recently, and it's not been added yet, but I guess it will be shortly.
(((. WIll try to find some time during this weekend.
