Digital 3d Model

[Chukk]

Greeting everyone! I lucked out in finding this excellent forum. I am currently working on putting together a digital model of the St. Laurent Class ships(other ships in works but top secret for now). I have chosen HMCS Saguenay since having spent most of my Naval career on that ship in the mid 80's.
Obviously you can never have enough reference material to put these things together so this is why I am here with my hat in my hand asking for any photos some of you might have collected. Right now I would love to have images of the flag deck and the walkways on either side of the ship under the flight deck.

http://www.military-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24

Thanks in advance, and greeting again from a fellow hairy*** !

:)

[herakles]

Perhaps you might explain what you mean by a "digital model" for us?

[designeraccd]

While these two jpegs aren't ships they do show both the real front of a motorhome and the CAID "digital model" it came from. A digital model is simply creating a realistic 3D model of a form in some type of appropriate software, such as I use for my Industrial Design business. Once the "model" mesh is created it can be rendered to be "photo realistic". After that the model math data can be used to guide CNC machines to cut super accurate LIFE SIZE patterns to build tools from. Parts, of course, are created from the tools. Sure beats drawinmg on paper and inhaling all those fine marker fumes....WHEEEE! DFO :D

[herakles]

So, if I understand you, it's like using CAD to design a building except you are creating a ship?

[Chukk]

Sure, digital model is the scratch building of an object, in this case a ship using 3d software like 3ds max, autocad to name a few. What you see in CG (computer Graphic) heavy movies like Transformer are digital models. They can very from simple like a row boat to a fully loaded aircraft carrier. Please check out this link for some example of this kind of work.

http://www.military-meshes.com/


It really is an art form, just like scratch building with wood, foam and fiberglass. In fact the ship I model, I purchased "model" plans to obtain some measure of accurate dimensions.

[herakles]

Very impressive! These must be labours of love.

I look forward to your final product. Thanks for the explanations.

[Chukk]

Thanks, this type of modeling is no different then the physical one. It's slow head scratching work. You make errors, sometimes scrapping hours of work, never totally happy with the results. The difference between this and real world modeling, you miss out on the paint and glue fumes. ;)

[Dreadnought]

Hi Chukk

I am interested in getting into this digital modelling. I notice that there are sites like The Pirate Bay where you can download 3ds Max 9. Is this a good/not good route to take for me to get started?

[dpoidy]

Greeting everyone! I lucked out in finding this excellent forum. I am currently working on putting together a digital model of the St. Laurent Class ships(other ships in works but top secret for now). I have chosen HMCS Saguenay since having spent most of my Naval career on that ship in the mid 80's.
Obviously you can never have enough reference material to put these things together so this is why I am here with my hat in my hand asking for any photos some of you might have collected. Right now I would love to have images of the flag deck and the walkways on either side of the ship under the flight deck.

http://www.military-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24

Thanks in advance, and greeting again from a fellow hairy*** !

:)

Do I have to regester on that site to view your models, or am I doing something wrong, can you post the jpegs here?

Thanks

[Blackfly]

You have to be a member to view his JPGS on that site.