JediMichael
Master Member
So my last major scratch was from the PC game, Starcraft. While I would probably try and do something else.....I just really got that itch to do this ship.
While the Battlecruiser was a big heavy with guns galore ship, per in game, this is just a dropship (transport) that has no guns at all.
I liked the look better than the 2nd game. Plus they changed it in part 2 to also heal units and renamed it, medivac.
So here is a bunch of angles I screen captured straight from the 2017 remastered version. As you can see, there is no bottom view, so using just a little bit of art, some fan made, I can mostly have some fun with it.
As far as the top, I plan to keep it close as possible, although, going to go with a deep blue like the battlecruiser.
Heres a nice and pretty accurate fan made render I found.
Less accurate, but you could rotate it on the browser, so it gives me some good ideas, and for how the bottom will work and where the units would be at for transportation. In game, you could transfer 8 small units like marines, 4 midsize, or 2 tanks. Realistically, I think even one tank would probably be too big, so I'm not going to really worry about that.
So back in October, I actually started doing a little research. I knew the part I wanted to get figured out first was the roundish cockpit. I really didn't know how to go about that or where to use...but, I thought, what about gumball machines that give the little capsule prizes.
But instead, I found something similar thats meant to be a tiny display. The site only let you buy if you spent like $20, or $25. So I got a few tiny ones and one bigger one just incase. You can see I already marked one of them to prep it.
I chose the small one and have sized the whole model around that one part. The battlecruiser was done the other way around and I sized it around the 4 back thrusters.
Heres my measurements so far, using the ruler in photoshop. I hope I can get it as close as possible to all this. The neck biggest issue was the back thrusters, as the the two outside ones are bigger than the two inner ones. I believe I have it all figured out already.
I went and cut the round plastic display and it looks like it is going to work perfectly. The top part in game is a slight bit flat, but not going to cry over that.
I also went to Lowes yesterday and spent about an hour fitting pieces together and seeing what might work. They probably were watching me on the camera trying to figure out what I was doing. Got $10 of stuff. Also went to my parents and raided my Dad's random junk.
I found that the bottom of the display case actually fits in the pipe I have for the bigger thrusters.
Also, with those two side thrusters, you can't really see inside the front part, its just kinda dark, so I knew I wanted to add something to look more realistic.
Back in 2016, my old car, a Dodge Caliber, the AUX on the stereo broke, so I ended up buying a new one. I have used parts little by little from it. Well, the volume and radio station knobs turned backwards should be perfect with these gray things I found years ago.
So I'm not too far in it yet, but you can see I have a plan and will post things as I can get them done little by little.
While the Battlecruiser was a big heavy with guns galore ship, per in game, this is just a dropship (transport) that has no guns at all.
I liked the look better than the 2nd game. Plus they changed it in part 2 to also heal units and renamed it, medivac.
So here is a bunch of angles I screen captured straight from the 2017 remastered version. As you can see, there is no bottom view, so using just a little bit of art, some fan made, I can mostly have some fun with it.
As far as the top, I plan to keep it close as possible, although, going to go with a deep blue like the battlecruiser.
Heres a nice and pretty accurate fan made render I found.
Less accurate, but you could rotate it on the browser, so it gives me some good ideas, and for how the bottom will work and where the units would be at for transportation. In game, you could transfer 8 small units like marines, 4 midsize, or 2 tanks. Realistically, I think even one tank would probably be too big, so I'm not going to really worry about that.
So back in October, I actually started doing a little research. I knew the part I wanted to get figured out first was the roundish cockpit. I really didn't know how to go about that or where to use...but, I thought, what about gumball machines that give the little capsule prizes.
But instead, I found something similar thats meant to be a tiny display. The site only let you buy if you spent like $20, or $25. So I got a few tiny ones and one bigger one just incase. You can see I already marked one of them to prep it.
I chose the small one and have sized the whole model around that one part. The battlecruiser was done the other way around and I sized it around the 4 back thrusters.
Heres my measurements so far, using the ruler in photoshop. I hope I can get it as close as possible to all this. The neck biggest issue was the back thrusters, as the the two outside ones are bigger than the two inner ones. I believe I have it all figured out already.
I went and cut the round plastic display and it looks like it is going to work perfectly. The top part in game is a slight bit flat, but not going to cry over that.
I also went to Lowes yesterday and spent about an hour fitting pieces together and seeing what might work. They probably were watching me on the camera trying to figure out what I was doing. Got $10 of stuff. Also went to my parents and raided my Dad's random junk.
I found that the bottom of the display case actually fits in the pipe I have for the bigger thrusters.
Also, with those two side thrusters, you can't really see inside the front part, its just kinda dark, so I knew I wanted to add something to look more realistic.
Back in 2016, my old car, a Dodge Caliber, the AUX on the stereo broke, so I ended up buying a new one. I have used parts little by little from it. Well, the volume and radio station knobs turned backwards should be perfect with these gray things I found years ago.
So I'm not too far in it yet, but you can see I have a plan and will post things as I can get them done little by little.
