Council Megaship-First Unfold!

[kushanwolf]

I made the Galactic Council Megaship to try out the programs and skills needed for unfolding and i could'nt find anyone else who's made this ship so i made it myself! Since its my first unfold it may be seriously dodgy to build but i just wanted to post it to see what people think. Enjoy
cid-26053b6bf7952c81.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/PaperStarShips/Galactic%20Council%20Megaship.pdo
(click the document to download, it's an uncompressed folder)

[qwerty59]

Doesn't look fun... especialy the bumps on the ?bottem?. If you feel like working on it some more, I'd try breaking it apart a bit more to clean up the individual parts. (someone with more experience should probably comment on this aspect) Also, try to connect some of the lose parts floating around on the bottem of page 3.

Hope this helps.

EDIT

Taking a closer look, looks like this is one of those models with an extra piece floating around in the middle.

[qwerty59]

Hey Kushanwolf, I've been working on another copy of the model and think I've got another one ready (still need to do a build first but...) you mind if I post it in the next few days or do you want to take a go at it first?

[kushanwolf]

yeah, you're right its a really crazy model. For some reason, every time i unfolded the model, no matter HOW much editing i did beforehand, i still got those darn tiny pieces
I'll give it another try today and i'd really like to see how you got on with unfolding

[qwerty59]

OK, I think I've got it uploaded to a site now, here's the pdo link:
cid-ba3fa73e16ce5725.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Paper%20Starships/Galactic%20Council%20Megaship%20V2.pdo

Tried to make the layout as close to that of the model as possible.

Tell me what you all think!

Oh, one note, if anyone is printing this, don't print the last page, the extra piece is sitting on there.

[kushanwolf]

Cool!
I see you managed to get rid of all those pesky little bits and the top looks a LOT easier to unfold. Nice one! I'll print it off as soon as i get some more card.
(Where does that little piece go?, its got textures but does'nt seem to go anywhere?

[qwerty59]

I'm starting to feel bad about so many posts on one topic...

I can't tell the actually description in relation to in-game features having never actually finished the game...

Anyway, for anyone interested, when you open up any model in pepakura designer, right click on the 2D parts page and select check corresponding faces (alternatively you can just hit Ctrl-K) and click on the part.

For an approximate location, if you're looking at the side with the single bump, place the elongated end on the left, the extra piece is inside the right hand edge.

[qwerty59]

Well, I've finished a model. Right now all I'm waiting for is to get the pictures off my camera... I will admit it's smaller than I thought. (it can easily fit in the palm of my hand) Anyway, I'll post pictures when I get a chance. Might write up an AI too if anyone thinks it's necessary.

You interested in hosting this Yessmasster?

[yessmasster]

I will

[qwerty59]

OK, I've got pics up. Here's a small one of the model:



There are more pics posted here. The model ended up being about 5 inches wide, 4 inches tall and 3 inches thick.

Enjoy!

Well can't seem to get the image to display... any ideas?

[Dodo 129]

I may have to come out of retirement and try thisone...