Death Star Micro Tiles + Trench Run (STL files V8 available)

[joberg]

Very nicely done indeed

 

[StevenBills]

Dude! Those are amazing! What’s your photo process like? I need to start shooting my own models like that

Thank you! The process is pretty simple, really. Just setup the model with the appropriate "space lighting" for the scene, take a couple shots, and the rest is done in post. I use my wife's DSLR and lights. Figuring out the correct perspective for each ship (if there are multiple ships in a shot) can be a challenge sometimes, but this photo was pretty simple. Just had to line up the X-Wing to look like it was flying down the trench. I wanted to recreate the box art that's on the Bandai Death Star Attack set. It felt really kinetic and cool.

Here's a layer breakdown for that image:

As well as a few others if you're interested:

And this one shows a little bit more of the process:

Anyway. That's probably a bit more than you asked for. Just a personal project of mine that I've been doing for the last few years. I post everything on Instagram as well, if you're into that.

Again, thanks for these awesome DS tiles!

SB

EDIT: Actually, Google Photos just reminded me that I was doing this exactly a year ago today. Cool cool. Definitely not perfect, but good enough for what I needed it for.

 

[monsterpartyhat]

Oh, that's funny -- I'd already seen them on instagram (following you there), but totally didn't make the connection right away. I love the video breakdowns - thanks for those! Its a pretty awesome project. Inspiring me to put a little more effort into my photography; before iPhone cameras go so good I shot everything with my Micro 4/3 camera gear -- I should get back into that habit

 

[BrundelFly]

Good Grief Steven, I wish you gave Adobe Lessons or however you are doing those "layers".

Frank

 

[StevenBills]

Good Grief Steven, I wish you gave Adobe Lessons or however you are doing those "layers".

Frank

Haha thank you. I’m really just playing around with the image until it looks right.

 

[kenjancef]

Well, that took a lot longer than anticipated, but I just posted V8 of the Death Star Tiles STL set.
As usual, it's up here - Death Star Micro Tiles - monster.party.hat

The biggest addition here is “Category I”, the set of Death Star 2 tiles from Return of the Jedi, as posted above. I also completed “Category H”, based on 8 of the high-altitude DS1 tiles, and added a new original tile to the Originals category.

This does still have the slightly ovalized interior of the cylindrical tower in the Category E tiles; I wasn't able to easily correct that. I FINALLY don't have any more tiles on my queue of tiles to model, so I'll spend a few cycles trying to re-do that one at some point.

With all the size variations, this brings the total number of files in the set to a mind boggling 237!



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These are just totally amazing!!!!!! Another user pointed me here, and I'm glad he did!! I'm in the process of building a resin printed NerdMaker X-Wing, these will make it even more amazing!! Thanks!!!!!!

 

[monsterpartyhat]

Awesome, glad they're useful!