[Retsof]

She turned me into a newt!
 
...sorry.

[TrashMan]

Oh come on, this isn't Vasudan, like starwolf said it's Liirian.  Or at least it could be without the plates and with a proper blue and gray paint job.  Either way its still a ship crewed by fish-faces.

The Steelsingers are ready, Elder!

[starwolf1991]

Awww gawd no.

I didn't say it look Liirian like it ws a bad thing. More to the point, using the style makes this WIP a rather unique design for the FS universe.

Seriously, it looks great. Can't wait to see more.

[Oddgrim]

woa a lot of interesting comments here, thanks for input
but since the last update I've thinned the armor plates and done some mechanic geebles in the front it's loosely based on the beam3.dds texture as reference.

[headdie]

looking good, keep up the good work

[Snail]

Those details could probably be done better with normal maps. Maybe use those details to bake it into the normal map instead of having them as actual geometry.

[Thaeris]

Of course, you could always keep the very high detail model as a cutscene-grade model. I've wanted to see more models like that for a while.

[ShadowGorrath]

Could this be a corvette instead? There aren't enough Vasudan corvettes around ( I know only 1 decent custom made Zod corvette, and even that one needs converting ). While there's plenty of Vasudan cruisers.

[Droid803]

Which is that one that needs converting?

[Oddgrim]

Those details could probably be done better with normal maps. Maybe use those details to bake it into the normal map instead of having them as actual geometry.

good idea I'll focus more on normal maps instead of geebles.

Could this be a corvette instead? There aren't enough Vasudan corvettes around ( I know only 1 decent custom made Zod corvette, and even that one needs converting ). While there's plenty of Vasudan cruisers.

I could make two versions of the same ship a cruiser and up gunned corvette version. (guns and detail textures scaled with size)

Update: about 99% done with the mesh of the ship doing uv mapping and cleaning.
return of the tri-flak cannons. 

[headdie]

i like

[Dragon]

That looks great.
I wish there was a way to include this Vasudan warship into WiH, but it's rather unlikely that Vasudans will want to engage in a war for the Terran homeworld (though I don't know for sure, I'm a texturer, not a FREDer).

[Spoon]

Looking good so far (mostly the front part)  
Liking the tri turrets

[Vasudan Admiral]

Turrets don't support having multiple axes around which to rotate separate turret arms, so you'll have to cheat a bit to get them working correctly. In theory, this should work! (However it will have slight problems when at minimum elevation, due to the angles - the Secondarm01 won't quite point down the same axis as Turret01-arm.)

[starwolf1991]

Amazing 

I would so love to see this complete. In fact, I'd love it even more to be able to use it in my Cerberus Campaign, so I can get rid of that damned Sobek.

Keep it up!

[blowfish]

Turrets don't support having multiple axes around which to rotate separate turret arms, so you'll have to cheat a bit to get them working correctly. In theory, this should work! (However it will have slight problems when at minimum elevation, due to the angles - the Secondarm01 won't quite point down the same axis as Turret01-arm.)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/VA--Twisted_Infinities/BlenderTutorialStuff/MultiAxisTurretBarrels.jpg

Won't all the firepoints be exclusively attached to turret01-arm though?

[Vasudan Admiral]

They would, yeah - but the offset from the tip of the third barrel wouldn't really be noticable at minimum/maximum elevations.

[shiv]

I like those fancy details you're throwing at us, Oddgrim

[Aardwolf]

it's loosely based on the beam3.dds texture as reference.

That's from the Mjolnir, isn't it?

[Oddgrim]

it's loosely based on the beam3.dds texture as reference.

That's from the Mjolnir, isn't it?

maybe but it's used on vasudan ships as well, correct me if I'm wrong but I think the sobek uses it on some parts.
edit:
anyway the machinery doesn't resemble much to that texture anymore.