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Rigel · 9th February 2008, 11:52 PM

I've been watching FS3D's thread (FS3D Does Frontier) in which he is building an updated version of the very low poly model of an Eagle fighter from the old computer game Frontier.

He jogged my memory that I once considered building a model of another ship from that game, one of my favourites, the Imperial Trader.

Now that I've gotten past converting the Serenity Tutorial, I find I have time to turn to modelling and decided to get rolling on this.

Here's a reference image of the ship I am building:

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Not much to go on, but then, Frontier was very low poly.

I decided to tackle the hull using splines and patches. First time I've made a serious attempt at doing this type of modelling. The images below are what I have so far.

All work is being done in Lightwave v8.5.

9th February 2008, 11:52 PM	#1
Rigel Moderator Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London (the other one, in Canada) Posts: 10,442	SciFi - Frontier Imperial Trader I've been watching FS3D's thread (FS3D Does Frontier) in which he is building an updated version of the very low poly model of an Eagle fighter from the old computer game Frontier. He jogged my memory that I once considered building a model of another ship from that game, one of my favourites, the Imperial Trader. Now that I've gotten past converting the Serenity Tutorial, I find I have time to turn to modelling and decided to get rolling on this. Here's a reference image of the ship I am building: Not much to go on, but then, Frontier was very low poly. I decided to tackle the hull using splines and patches. First time I've made a serious attempt at doing this type of modelling. The images below are what I have so far. All work is being done in Lightwave v8.5. Attached Thumbnails
	__________________ Those who say it can't be done, should stop interrupting those of us who are busy doing it! ------------------------------------------------------------ Other Projects The Universal Joint Frontier Imperial Trader LadyBug (Firefly class freighter)

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