So after so much time being devoted to projects at work its been nice to head back into Maya and continue to develop some ideas for my ongoing WIP: Starship1.

Sinse my last update on this project I’ve added a whole bunch of new details and sections.

Firstly I’ve added a layer of greebles, which I have either developed myself or used from the fine selection in Greeble Pack 1-4 by Jedilaw – which helped to speed up the process and give me some ideas for future updates.

Secondly another set of engines has been added to the ‘wing’ section at the rear of model. These are the FTL drives. I’ve seen lots of different ways of implementing some kind of FTL engine in many models in sci-fi, and I always preferred the more discrete or mysterious designs which embedded such mythical technology within the body of the ship – like in Battlestar Galactica, however this is a modeling project so big super-sized wing-mounted mega-engines it is.

Thirdly I’ve added some teeth to the ship as well. On the tilted tips of each wing section now rests an assortment of large guns, making this a warship of sorts (I’m not really interested in developing much of a back-story for this model, its just an exercise).

I’m already seeing things I want to change and I’m going to need a new sketchpad soon with all the doodles for ideas and changes I’ve had.

Let me know what you think!

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