I would love to see a video where you go to a used book store and check out all the absolutely sweet 70s Sci fi covers on the novels. Pick your favorite, and build it from scratch. A lot of work I know, Prototyping and all that, but still it would be cool to bring some of those under rated Cover art pieces to 3d life.
I would also love to see more Homeworld ships. Homeworld is always number 1 on my favourite games of all time. Such fantastic games with great story and atmosphere.
The model looks great but I have to say that the hanger really makes it look special and brings the whole model together. The weathering brings a lot of interest to the whole diorama. Thanks for sharing this.
This model is just so cool. There is something about the whole diorama that makes it so esthetically pleasing to the eye. The space port docking pod just adds to the whole scheme and makes this diorama look like it really could exist somewhere. Have you ever considered taking the concept of using proper blueprints even further and creating something instantly recognisable ? May I suggest a rather excellent book by Graham Langridge called "Alien: The Blueprints" (approx £22-£26 depending where you get it from), which has extremely detailed complete scaled drawings in all angles of things like the "Nostromo", the Caterpiller P5000 Power Loader, the M577 Armoured Marine Troop Transporter, the "Prometheus" and other iconic machinery and spacecraft from those worlds. It may take longer than your current builds , but it's an option for you.
Amazingly pleasant work to watch. Only note I would offer is that, if you ever decide to revisit this wonderful piece, perhaps consider adding a spray of starlight or the curve of a dust cloud onto the bottom of the diorama to impart the idea that the ship is cradled above an open bay - like in the inspiration picture. Technically, I think the stars would be very unlikely to be visible from withing a properly lit launch bay - but they would be there to tell the story, not be realistic.
Excellent work, well done. I make up toy soldier sets to give away so I have two issues: A) The rule of threes, one ship is a ship, two is two ships but three is a fleet (works the same with toy tanks), so I have to make three identical copies. B) Some of the sets go to 3-7 year olds, so cannot have anything they could hurt themselves with or break-off and choke on. There is a third issue as well, some things are likely to end up in the bath (although I have made some specifically for that). What I need is a glue that sticks uPVC (plumbing fittings) to styrene, no luck yet but still experimenting (for the moment drilling holes and using drawing pins.thumb tacks backed with Milliput to provide a gluable surface). Look forward to your future builds, I need ideas for sci fi sets.
You are a master of styrene, good sir! :) I love the Home World games. It is great seeing your attention to detail and amazing talents pay appropriate tribute to a legendary franchise.
That looks really great. I can't believe this is your first exposure to it. Some of Homeworld's general aesthetic was inspired by the ships from the art-book / future history "Terran Trade Authority - Spacecraft 2000-2100AD". It's like reading a wiki-page describing the histories all sorts of civilian and military ships with beautiful full color artwork. Take a look and I'm sure you'll see some similarities.
The relaxing energy of these videos coupled with your attention to detail at every step of the process is genuinely such a treat to see. You really went above and beyond for this build and it looks amazing!
This is why I would to like model kits for homeworld, very good job sublight you got the ware and tear of a homeworld setting down very well. Also make me what to take up styrene models to do more homeworld ships
First of all, this might be one of the coolest hobbies ever. Second, your skills are impressive AF. Third, I love your editing and humor style. Makes your videos extremely entertaining. The ship is super cool too!
Glad to see you use solvent as well. Weld bonds are the best. I use ethylacetate for my styrene builds. Tamiya is asking 3-5 bucks for it, for a tiny bottle. No sir!
I love your videos! They make me jealous! You're very skilled and I hope to be able to make my videos as straight forward as yours. I love the content and execution!
One of best games and a great tribute to it. Great work. I built a few of the paper / card models from homeworld and plated them with styrene. But the painting nearly destroyed them.
You should use Tamiya brand modeling putty, it is as white as the polystyrene and it dries up quick. You can sand it and paint it, it is great! The only thing is it smells like oil based paint. Other than that, it is awesome.
Dude homeworld designs are a kitbasher's dream come true and you absolutely nailed this display. I bet if you do a crawler from deserts of kharak it would do big numbers for the algorithm as well
Love this! Thanks for putting this together and showing us your process. I really learned some good techniques and appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge. A great build.
Astounding job, pratically the templates for such a model could be made from a paper model such as with Pepakura designer. It's incredibile the details' level you achieved on it👍
Converting it to papercraft would be interesting. I have to take into account the fact that the styrene has some dimension to it when I make the templates, but I do sometimes test them in paper to make sure they line up right.
It is called styrene, a lot of modelers buy theirs from a company called Evergreen. But I recommend just calling your local sign printer shop and asking to go through their trash. They often thrown tons of scraps of this stuff out, and in all kinds of thicknesses.
I seriously need a new hobby to get my head clear... with roughly 40 years experience in 3D modeling (yeah, i built my first 3D models on my Commodore Amiga) and a couple of years working in package design - and a huge thing with anything space related - i might have just found the perfect thing... thank you very much for the video, i left a like and a subscription... i will test building a model for sure... Looks like the perfect zen stuff to me...
Outstanding scratch building, man! I've not played the game, and I'm curious about something. Since it resides on the end of a docking arm, how does the crew get in and out of that thing?
Any chance of us seeing some of the other ships from the franchise? The new mothership is begging for some love. Oh and have a sub. These models are fun to see built.
Damn that was awesome, you actually inspire me to try this some time. Thanks for showing all the steps that's epic. I just wonder, what makes you do a Homeworld diorama if you never played the game?
I love your work. Why not release build plans for some of the other models that are created from artworks off the internet? You wouldn't have to charge for the artwork, but for the time it took to create the model part drawings and instructions. While still giving credit to the original designer for the artworks. Just a thought I had while watching your awesome build videos .
Love your videos! I am brand new to spaceship model building and, so far, have only watched your channel, and Adam Savage over at Tested. I am really excited to get started and was wondering what app you're using to import the ship model and create your templates?
It looks like Affinity on Mac, but you can do the same thing with Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape etc. General process is to import an image or several images and trace the major shapes. Just make sure the images are as close to orthographic as possible (no perspective distortion). It's easier to trace them as vectors as it's easy to adjust the positions and line thicknesses afterwards and can be scaled to any size without any issues, which makes printing easier. If you have access to a 3D model file like the video, you could use Blender or some 3D model viewer to take screenshots of it at different angles for creating templates, or if you want even more accurate templates import it into 3D modelling software and unwrap the mesh into a UV map, but that's pretty advanced and is probably overkill if you don't already know how to do it!
This is it exactly. I don’t know anything about 3D modeling programs so I just use the default Mac picture viewer which can handle .obj files just fine. There’s a little bit of perspective distortion, but since I clean up the templates to match with each other it’s not an issue.
Hey just a thought here. maybe you should Collab with someone who makes Terrain pieces. you could do even bigger scenes that way, and they'd get to work with custom models.
thoses bits of wood used to make the back boards, were those huge lollipop sticks? if so where can i fing them i have some many uses for them and projects that help me finish soooo many of my projects plus would help out on the film sets in the props dprtment, we are always looking for new products. any help is appericated.
I have templates and instructions available on my Etsy for the builds I’ve made that are my original designs. www.etsy.com/shop/SublightDrive Unless something dramatic changes, I only plan to do this for ships that are 100% original by me.
love ur project. Tho ii dont know if it is the case, but it seems like you use a very glossy paing, giving ur builds a plasticy look what i feel detracts from the scale, tho it might just be the camera
I would love to see a video where you go to a used book store and check out all the absolutely sweet 70s Sci fi covers on the novels.
Pick your favorite, and build it from scratch.
A lot of work I know, Prototyping and all that, but still it would be cool to bring some of those under rated Cover art pieces to 3d life.
This is actually a great idea, I might have to try it. There's plenty of used book stores where I live so lots to pick from.
This paint job really shows how much work the weathering does
Nice, Homeworld is a good fit for your scratch builds, thanks for sharing!
This was awesome! I'd love to see more Homeworld builds, maybe the Vaygr Carrier (HW2) or Hiigaran Interceptor (HW2)
There was this drawing of a Hiig interceptor. "10 years of Homeworld" or something. Looks pretty slick.
I would also love to see more Homeworld ships. Homeworld is always number 1 on my favourite games of all time. Such fantastic games with great story and atmosphere.
The model looks great but I have to say that the hanger really makes it look special and brings the whole model together. The weathering brings a lot of interest to the whole diorama. Thanks for sharing this.
This was awesome! Please make more homeworld ships! Also you’ll have plenty more inspiration now that HW3 is coming out soon!
This model is just so cool. There is something about the whole diorama that makes it so esthetically pleasing to the eye. The space port docking pod just adds to the whole scheme and makes this diorama look like it really could exist somewhere.
Have you ever considered taking the concept of using proper blueprints even further and creating something instantly recognisable ? May I suggest a rather excellent book by Graham Langridge called "Alien: The Blueprints" (approx £22-£26 depending where you get it from), which has extremely detailed complete scaled drawings in all angles of things like the "Nostromo", the Caterpiller P5000 Power Loader, the M577 Armoured Marine Troop Transporter, the "Prometheus" and other iconic machinery and spacecraft from those worlds. It may take longer than your current builds , but it's an option for you.
THAT is COOL. Helped me figure out a display for my giant robot.
Great skills and a pleasure to see a ship from one of the greatest fleets ever designed brought into the 3D world.
This channel is criminally underrated.
Man I love Space Goose. Those ships based on everyday objects got me hooked on his art.
Amazingly pleasant work to watch. Only note I would offer is that, if you ever decide to revisit this wonderful piece, perhaps consider adding a spray of starlight or the curve of a dust cloud onto the bottom of the diorama to impart the idea that the ship is cradled above an open bay - like in the inspiration picture. Technically, I think the stars would be very unlikely to be visible from withing a properly lit launch bay - but they would be there to tell the story, not be realistic.
I think this is my favourite creation of yours.
Excellent work, well done. I make up toy soldier sets to give away so I have two issues: A) The rule of threes, one ship is a ship, two is two ships but three is a fleet (works the same with toy tanks), so I have to make three identical copies. B) Some of the sets go to 3-7 year olds, so cannot have anything they could hurt themselves with or break-off and choke on. There is a third issue as well, some things are likely to end up in the bath (although I have made some specifically for that). What I need is a glue that sticks uPVC (plumbing fittings) to styrene, no luck yet but still experimenting (for the moment drilling holes and using drawing pins.thumb tacks backed with Milliput to provide a gluable surface). Look forward to your future builds, I need ideas for sci fi sets.
You are a master of styrene, good sir! :) I love the Home World games. It is great seeing your attention to detail and amazing talents pay appropriate tribute to a legendary franchise.
I love Homeworld designs. Great model and great video, thnx.
Also great color schemes.
That looks really great. I can't believe this is your first exposure to it. Some of Homeworld's general aesthetic was inspired by the ships from the art-book / future history "Terran Trade Authority - Spacecraft 2000-2100AD". It's like reading a wiki-page describing the histories all sorts of civilian and military ships with beautiful full color artwork. Take a look and I'm sure you'll see some similarities.
man homeworld was such a cornerstone of RTS, thank you for uploading
Absolutely superb.
The relaxing energy of these videos coupled with your attention to detail at every step of the process is genuinely such a treat to see. You really went above and beyond for this build and it looks amazing!
In the process we trust!
Good job man
This is why I would to like model kits for homeworld, very good job sublight you got the ware and tear of a homeworld setting down very well. Also make me what to take up styrene models to do more homeworld ships
First of all, this might be one of the coolest hobbies ever.
Second, your skills are impressive AF.
Third, I love your editing and humor style. Makes your videos extremely entertaining.
The ship is super cool too!
OOOOOH! hell yeah homeworld! more of this please! well, if you feel like it ofc.
Glad to see you use solvent as well. Weld bonds are the best. I use ethylacetate for my styrene builds. Tamiya is asking 3-5 bucks for it, for a tiny bottle. No sir!
Nice work! Technically this is mostly scratch-building, with only a bit of kit-bashing, but I love it!!!
Best build yet!
I love your videos!
They make me jealous! You're very skilled and I hope to be able to make my videos as straight forward as yours. I love the content and execution!
One of best games and a great tribute to it. Great work.
I built a few of the paper / card models from homeworld and plated them with styrene. But the painting nearly destroyed them.
Great build. Thanks
Using the uvw-map for your templates is really nifty! :D
Cool build, would like more Homeworld related builds.
Would like to get my hands on the pattern for this ship
this is beyond awesome really makes me want do my favorite ship from HW1 Kushan Destroyer
Homeworld builds always make my week. Awesome build!!
I grew up playing the series. Super recommend them to you!
I picked up the remastered edition recently and started playing around. I’m pretty bad at it so far lmao
@@Sublight_Drive Just keep at it, and you'll get it! c:
If all else fails, Salvage Corvettes are your best friends lol
Beyond cool!
You should use Tamiya brand modeling putty, it is as white as the polystyrene and it dries up quick. You can sand it and paint it, it is great! The only thing is it smells like oil based paint. Other than that, it is awesome.
Discovered you on reddit the other day and i've learned so much about modeling already from your content. Thank you so much
Glad you like it! I feel like I perpetually think of myself as a beginner, so it’s always nice to hear that I have stuff to teach people.
Dude homeworld designs are a kitbasher's dream come true and you absolutely nailed this display. I bet if you do a crawler from deserts of kharak it would do big numbers for the algorithm as well
Really like it, good job!
amazing love homeworld. You can have a total niche all to yourself if you did some homeworld 2 builds.
Just stunning work as ever, more of this please
Love this! Thanks for putting this together and showing us your process. I really learned some good techniques and appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge. A great build.
Beautiful build, gives me the desire to try building something myself from pictures of ships I've downloaded. Great job!!!
these always make my day! thanks for being awesome!
Astounding job, pratically the templates for such a model could be made from a paper model such as with Pepakura designer. It's incredibile the details' level you achieved on it👍
Converting it to papercraft would be interesting. I have to take into account the fact that the styrene has some dimension to it when I make the templates, but I do sometimes test them in paper to make sure they line up right.
very relaxing to watch after work. nice job!
Awesome video!
Where do you get those white plastic sheets where you build your models with from/what are they called? Also, great video!! Loved the build again.
It is called styrene, a lot of modelers buy theirs from a company called Evergreen. But I recommend just calling your local sign printer shop and asking to go through their trash. They often thrown tons of scraps of this stuff out, and in all kinds of thicknesses.
Well done!
Genius!!!
Massive win. I'm a homeworld nerd so already biased.
"A secret tool that will help us later" cracked me up. 🤣
I seriously need a new hobby to get my head clear... with roughly 40 years experience in 3D modeling (yeah, i built my first 3D models on my Commodore Amiga) and a couple of years working in package design - and a huge thing with anything space related - i might have just found the perfect thing... thank you very much for the video, i left a like and a subscription... i will test building a model for sure... Looks like the perfect zen stuff to me...
Love to see you build a Vulture Mech
Amazing as always!
You make it look easy but that’s deceptive, the geometry of what you’re doing is somewhat complex. Nice work.
Yeah, this one was a bit of a humdinger, it’s got a lot of different shapes going on.
This got me to subscribe. Nice build. Would love to see some more Foss-type stuff.
Outstanding scratch building, man! I've not played the game, and I'm curious about something. Since it resides on the end of a docking arm, how does the crew get in and out of that thing?
Any chance of us seeing some of the other ships from the franchise? The new mothership is begging for some love.
Oh and have a sub. These models are fun to see built.
Now that you've gone and done this, you've got to do a Kushan Interceptor.
Damn that was awesome, you actually inspire me to try this some time. Thanks for showing all the steps that's epic. I just wonder, what makes you do a Homeworld diorama if you never played the game?
Recommend starting research on plasma bomb technology immediately.
Would love to see some based on the new ship designs in Homeworld 3!
Wonderful work! I'm curious, where do you buy your magnets?
K&J Magnetics all the way
Now I’m wondering which crawler you’d pick if you did a Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak scratch build.
Amazing. Your skill set does you proud. Now. Teach me how to do a Warhammer 40K Sokar Class Stormbird attack ship. (Please!!)
I love your work. Why not release build plans for some of the other models that are created from artworks off the internet? You wouldn't have to charge for the artwork, but for the time it took to create the model part drawings and instructions. While still giving credit to the original designer for the artworks. Just a thought I had while watching your awesome build videos .
Why do you put the tape down before scoring the styrene?
I really like your work I’m sad it seems like you don’t make videos anymore
Absolutely beautiful work. Is that template available anywhere?
Love your videos! I am brand new to spaceship model building and, so far, have only watched your channel, and Adam Savage over at Tested. I am really excited to get started and was wondering what app you're using to import the ship model and create your templates?
It looks like Affinity on Mac, but you can do the same thing with Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape etc. General process is to import an image or several images and trace the major shapes. Just make sure the images are as close to orthographic as possible (no perspective distortion). It's easier to trace them as vectors as it's easy to adjust the positions and line thicknesses afterwards and can be scaled to any size without any issues, which makes printing easier.
If you have access to a 3D model file like the video, you could use Blender or some 3D model viewer to take screenshots of it at different angles for creating templates, or if you want even more accurate templates import it into 3D modelling software and unwrap the mesh into a UV map, but that's pretty advanced and is probably overkill if you don't already know how to do it!
This is it exactly. I don’t know anything about 3D modeling programs so I just use the default Mac picture viewer which can handle .obj files just fine. There’s a little bit of perspective distortion, but since I clean up the templates to match with each other it’s not an issue.
@@Sublight_Drive Thanks!
@@Kooozer Many thanks!
Hey just a thought here. maybe you should Collab with someone who makes Terrain pieces. you could do even bigger scenes that way, and they'd get to work with custom models.
thoses bits of wood used to make the back boards, were those huge lollipop sticks? if so where can i fing them i have some many uses for them and projects that help me finish soooo many of my projects plus would help out on the film sets in the props dprtment, we are always looking for new products. any help is appericated.
This might be a stretch to ask, but can you make Archimedes? Its the ship of Nite Owl from Watchmen. I think it would be a cool build.
Do you have guide build? Or website?
Where did you get the 3D model for this ship?
This website right here: www.models-resource.com/pc_computer/homeworld/
Please return those scissors to my house
No
If your looking for the OG inspiration for the art style of the Homeworld games, look up the artist Chris Foss.
Do you share your blueprints for these anywhere i would love to have a go at building this.
I have templates and instructions available on my Etsy for the builds I’ve made that are my original designs.
www.etsy.com/shop/SublightDrive
Unless something dramatic changes, I only plan to do this for ships that are 100% original by me.
get a nice high res image of a planet and stick it below the ship. Looks like its in low orbit about to deploy
love ur project. Tho ii dont know if it is the case, but it seems like you use a very glossy paing, giving ur builds a plasticy look what i feel detracts from the scale, tho it might just be the camera
Modelling putty, or, T H E F O R B I D D E N M A Y O N N A I S E
Where can we find your plans?