Well whats more needed ; terran ships or vasudan ships?
either way - it'd take some time to learn to try to mod - anyone have any hotlinks or suggestions where i can start?
p.s looked at the modding section - wasn't much help. Perhaps some advice from BWO veterans would be appreciated?
Well if you want general modding advice your best bet is the modding forum, not BWO. BWO deals with a specific mod, their main need right now is for people who know how to model to upgrade a bunch of their stuff to higher-poly versions. That doesn't mean BWO members won't help you, but if you post in the modding forum you might get help from them, and from all other sorts of modellers. Here you're likely to get far less responses.
In general, there are lots of Terran ships, there are quite a few less Vasudan ships, and even less Shivan ships after that.
As for some help re: modeling
Well . . . some tutorials:
Freespace Oracle is a place to start:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/modding.htmlHere's one tutorial that talks about modelling in Blender (freeware program as far as I know):
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/fs2/mods/fighterguide/There's a little bit on the wiki about modelling:
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/ModellingMain thing of interest is that it talks about some programs you can use (ie Blender, Sketchup)
There are lots of tutorials on the internet as well, some for Blender here for example (there are also some for lightwave, which I think is free????)
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Blender-3d/Modelling/1 And yeah, a lot of the tutorials just talk about crap like . . . making a coke bottle, or a wine glass, but the lessons can still be applied to something a little more interesting like spaceships and whatnot.
Anyway, hope some of this helps. And if you need more, just ask in some of the proper forums. People are generally pretty helpful.