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Offline Lord Borak

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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #645 on: December 24, 2021, 09:27:04 AM »
Yeah! That's ace!  ;D
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Offline Malika

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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #646 on: December 29, 2021, 10:49:02 AM »
Work on the orbital ring colony continues. These colonies are constructed in orbit of worlds that are to be terraformed. The worker drones live most of their lives within the inner structure of the ring itself, whilst the elites get to live a luxurious life on inner surface of the ring.

These rings have a diameter of about 50 kilometers, the last two pictures will show you the true vastness of this structure. That tiny ship trying to enter the ring is a 750 meter long Light Cruiser I've designed for Vanguard Miniatures. Plan for now is that the final model will most likely have a diameter of around 80-100mm.
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #647 on: December 29, 2021, 10:49:19 AM »
Pic 2
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #648 on: December 29, 2021, 10:50:06 AM »
Final two pics. Look how small the Light Cruiser is!!!
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #649 on: December 29, 2021, 10:02:59 PM »
You crazy, man... ;D
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #650 on: December 30, 2021, 10:15:42 AM »
I won't be printing out a 50km model of course, the final diameter will most likely be around 100mm. But it will still be a kick ass model!

In the meantime...

I've been digging through my archives a bit and found these two 'scrapyard raider' ships. These designs are almost a decade old! Despite their age, I do feel they might have some potential and I'm very tempted to redevelop them.

How big would you imagine these models to be?
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #651 on: December 30, 2021, 07:40:07 PM »
Somewhere between lightcruiser and escort. So panthera size more or less would suit the bits sticking out of it I'd say...

Really like those. Great idea...
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #652 on: May 12, 2022, 03:00:29 PM »
I've designed these ships almost a decade ago and I remember posting them here as well. Lately I've been very tempted to revisit these designs...
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #653 on: September 02, 2025, 07:30:44 PM »
Been digging through my design archives and managed to get three new releases out of them (so far!).

Armed Orbital Platform:
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/armed-orbital-platform


Fleetscale Ordnance Pods:
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/fleetscale-pods


Armed Escorts:
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/armed-escorts
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Re: [BFG] - Designing new ship types - 3d printing madness
« Reply #654 on: September 03, 2025, 04:10:09 PM »

These latest are awesome, mate! I really like that armoured orbital, and the assault pods would make very cool 'swarmer' craft in their current scale but also sized up!
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« Reply #655 on: September 05, 2025, 04:32:38 PM »
Good stuff right there!!!!!  Scrapyard stuff makes my heart warm.  Although based on your latest stuff, I believe you can take your scrapyard stuff to the next level.
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