User blog:Atarumaster88/FEnally my frigate is done!

After months and months of (mostly not) working on my latest and greatest 3-D model, it's finally done. All the detailing and texturing is finished, the lighting is more or less where I want it&mdash;it's finished.

I've been working on a full-size warship, the Makashi-class frigate, which is quite a task when you consider that everything I've done before has been much smaller objects, except for my first ship, the Shii-cho, which frankly isn't as good. The frigate is nearly 5 times as long as the Hawk-bat and is much larger.

To give you an idea of how much work each one took, here's how many separate operations I had to perform in SolidWorks to get each ship done:
 * Shii-cho-class transport: 42
 * Shoto starfighter: 48
 * Hawk-bat: 63
 * Makashi-class frigate: 121

This is the last ship I will draw with this much detail in SolidWorks, because it just takes way too long. I can't even imagine drawing a 1,000 meter warship at this level of detail. I might do some simpler stuff in SolidWorks with the bigger ships.

So when does this get released? At my next content release, of course. I'm going to get some minor things done with the background and some other effects done to it, and I have other things to work on. Cool things. Timeframe is probably the third week in February, so you'll just have to be patient until then. But it's done, and I'm glad for that.