U.S.S. Trafalgar, Ambassador-class Starship
The Ambassador-class starship from Star Trek is near and dear to my heart. I decided to tackle making a high-resolution 3D model of it.
This project is COMPLETE.
This is a meta-post that collates all of the individual blog posts I make on this topic. If you prefer, you can also follow this project’s progress on SciFi-Meshes and Foundation 3D, where I first posted much of this content. The posts are in ascending order, with the first post at the top and the last post containing the most recent updates.
- U.S.S. Trafalgar, Ambassador-class Starship (2012-09-11)
- Refining and refining (2012-09-11)
- Tweaking and futzing (2012-09-12)
- Freezing the saucer (2012-09-13)
- Saucer shield grids (2012-09-20)
- Ventral saucer shield grids and deck layout (2012-09-23)
- Grids and windows! (2012-09-27)
- Windows and the bridge (2012-10-04)
- Rebuilding and optimizing (2012-10-16)
- Detailing up the dorsal saucer (2012-10-26)
- Detailing up the ventral saucer (2013-01-06)
- Rebuilding the stardrive and neck (2013-01-15)
- Neck and stardrive windows and shield grids (2013-01-22)
- Stardrive detailing (2013-01-31)
- Shuttlebay doors, pylons, and nacelles (2013-02-06)
- Finished exterior, starting on interiors (2013-02-14)
- Modeling finished! (2013-02-16)
- Saucer UVs proceeding slowly (2013-08-06)
- Texturing the saucer (2013-08-20)
- More saucer texture work and shader experimentation (2013-09-01)
- Saucer and Bridge texturing (2013-10-05) FINISHED
- More saucer texturing, including registry experiments (2013-10-16)
- Finished primary saucer texturing (2013-10-28)
- Neck and stardrive texturing (2013-12-18)
- Cycles and Compositor experiments, nearly finished with exterior textures (2013-12-29)
- Interior textures: shuttlebays, conference room (2014-01-04)
- Finished Ambassador model renders (2014-01-07)
- Experimenting with tone mapping (2014-02-13)