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Hi everyone!
My name is Sebastian, I'm a 30 y.o career unemployee (sigh) from Malmö, Sweden. I've been interested in submarines since forever, particularly ballistic missile subs (I think it started way back with a 1/350 kit of the USS Ohio), and while my budget and living space can't quite handle R/C submarines, I've managed to come up with a decent sub-stitute. (pun unavoidable!)
Nowadays, rather than build them in plastic, I've started building in 3D, where I can detail them to my heart's content, store them without taking up half my apartment, and sail them without worrying about having to retrieve them from the bottom of some murky lake... Plus, the pyrotechnics are much safer to handle!
As to how I ended up on this forum, I found it while crawling the web for references on the Ohio class - specifically I found Pirate's WIP thread for the 1/96 kit, which is lovely and I want one but I couldn't pay for it in a million years. (which is really sad, since I have two minute's walk to the local community 25x50m pool...)
Right now I'm busy building a collection of submarines which will eventually be available freely on the web, once I'm satisfied with them. I've started on a bunch already, but the ones nearest and dearest to my heart are the Ohio, the Virginia, and a sci-fi sub that's most closely described as a hybrid of the two, which is my take on a future followon to the Ohio.
Here's a few pics from my collection of test renders:
Virginia class in the foreground, and the "Leviathan", my codename for the Ohio followon. This render was an experiment with the hull material, but it probably shows the details better than any of my other shots...
The closest sub here is a start on the Los Angeles class. Eventually there'll be at least seven different versions of this one, depicting various stages of the 688 design evolution, from the unadorned 688 without the Towed array or anechoic tiles, to the Seawolf technology testbed with the pumpjet propulsor. Second is the Virginia again, then the Ohio (early unfinished version), then the "Leviathan".
Very early stage render of several attack subs, showing roughly how I go about making them. From right to left, Skipjack, Permit, Sturgeon, Los Angeles, and a somewhat oversized version of the Jimmy Carter, with the Leviathan furthest from the camera.
Foredeck of the Leviathan. Old render.
The head of an optronic mast as fitted to the Astute class, modeled after a photo on the manufacturer's site. This one has about twice as many polygons as the submarine it's fitted on, courtesy of all those rivets...
Another really early render, showing the missile doors on the Leviathan, and the missile deck details. Back when this render was made, the missile doors would only move as a group - they've since been separated so they open independently.
Early attempt at a ballistic missile launch effect.
Latest render, showing the start of a Benjamin Franklin-class and a Triomphant class sub. Othographic, scale is 5 pixels per meter.
Now, topside detail is fairly easy to come by, and even side details aren't too difficult, but one thing I'm having major trouble with where I'm pretty sure you can help (which is the reason I came here...) is the underside. About the only sub I've found anything usable about the underside for is the Ohio, and that's only due to Pirate's WiP pics. I'd like to add decently accurate ballast inlets and anchor doors etc for the rest of the subs as well, hopefully...
Cheers,
SP
(PS]http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b275/ ... s/?start=0[/url])
My name is Sebastian, I'm a 30 y.o career unemployee (sigh) from Malmö, Sweden. I've been interested in submarines since forever, particularly ballistic missile subs (I think it started way back with a 1/350 kit of the USS Ohio), and while my budget and living space can't quite handle R/C submarines, I've managed to come up with a decent sub-stitute. (pun unavoidable!)
Nowadays, rather than build them in plastic, I've started building in 3D, where I can detail them to my heart's content, store them without taking up half my apartment, and sail them without worrying about having to retrieve them from the bottom of some murky lake... Plus, the pyrotechnics are much safer to handle!
As to how I ended up on this forum, I found it while crawling the web for references on the Ohio class - specifically I found Pirate's WIP thread for the 1/96 kit, which is lovely and I want one but I couldn't pay for it in a million years. (which is really sad, since I have two minute's walk to the local community 25x50m pool...)
Right now I'm busy building a collection of submarines which will eventually be available freely on the web, once I'm satisfied with them. I've started on a bunch already, but the ones nearest and dearest to my heart are the Ohio, the Virginia, and a sci-fi sub that's most closely described as a hybrid of the two, which is my take on a future followon to the Ohio.
Here's a few pics from my collection of test renders:
Virginia class in the foreground, and the "Leviathan", my codename for the Ohio followon. This render was an experiment with the hull material, but it probably shows the details better than any of my other shots...
The closest sub here is a start on the Los Angeles class. Eventually there'll be at least seven different versions of this one, depicting various stages of the 688 design evolution, from the unadorned 688 without the Towed array or anechoic tiles, to the Seawolf technology testbed with the pumpjet propulsor. Second is the Virginia again, then the Ohio (early unfinished version), then the "Leviathan".
Very early stage render of several attack subs, showing roughly how I go about making them. From right to left, Skipjack, Permit, Sturgeon, Los Angeles, and a somewhat oversized version of the Jimmy Carter, with the Leviathan furthest from the camera.
Foredeck of the Leviathan. Old render.
The head of an optronic mast as fitted to the Astute class, modeled after a photo on the manufacturer's site. This one has about twice as many polygons as the submarine it's fitted on, courtesy of all those rivets...
Another really early render, showing the missile doors on the Leviathan, and the missile deck details. Back when this render was made, the missile doors would only move as a group - they've since been separated so they open independently.
Early attempt at a ballistic missile launch effect.
Latest render, showing the start of a Benjamin Franklin-class and a Triomphant class sub. Othographic, scale is 5 pixels per meter.
Now, topside detail is fairly easy to come by, and even side details aren't too difficult, but one thing I'm having major trouble with where I'm pretty sure you can help (which is the reason I came here...) is the underside. About the only sub I've found anything usable about the underside for is the Ohio, and that's only due to Pirate's WiP pics. I'd like to add decently accurate ballast inlets and anchor doors etc for the rest of the subs as well, hopefully...
Cheers,
SP
(PS]http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b275/ ... s/?start=0[/url])
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