2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
This is a general update and not project specific. To start, I've been pretty sick the last couple of weeks. That nuked almost every end-of-the-year plan and goal I had for 2023, including the Yamato project. Even as I write this, I'm only just 'recovering.' There's...
Okay so the Cosmo Messers aren't 100% compatible with the Yamato, so I wanted to modify one to be close to spec. I somehow wound up making a full-blown Cosmo Falcon. There I go, makin' replicas again I also did some side by side comparisons on an old request and Good...
Oh my goodness ... well, things may have slowed down exponentially compared to the first 24 hours of working on this thing, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been major progress. Check this out. The exterior is nearly finished (minus coloring) The catapults work...
One of the most annoying things about fleshing out these World War II inspired factions is that there isn't enough territory in the setting to go around. I mean we've got America, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, etcetera. There are only a handful of habitable worlds,...
I took a break from the Seydlitz to try and work on a few ships from some other factions. So far things are looking decent, but with ships like these, the PCU count is going to be a whole lot harder to deal with. USS Yorktown WIP The main one I'm focusing on is the...
Uh … yeah, I’m not sure why I started making this yesterday. I’ll do ‘inspired’ builds, but I never attempt actual replicas.
For some perspective, this is sixteen hours of work crammed into about a day and a half. It took me a year to get the Admiral Hipper slapped into shape.
I started with just a conveyor tube and a turret and now barely a day and a half later, I’ve got a nearly finished main grid hull. We’re just missing some details on the ventral side, some hull retouching to better match the 2199 version of the Yamato, and the top of the command tower (sensor suite, Captain’s cabin, etc).
Unfortunately, to meet my own standards, a ship like this is going to need a lot of subgrids to look right. They’re hard to see with full ship shots, but there are plenty of little cutouts and inset areas where I’m planning to attach some of the more angular or small grid components.
It really scares me how quickly I can build things when I’ve got reference images to work with. I went from almost nothing to one of the largest practical ships I’ve ever built, and I was severely sleep deprived for half of the actual work. Maybe I should do more of these. It’d certainly bring more attention to my workshop page … not to mention P.R.
It’s still going to take weeks to completely finish the build since it’s going to have a fleshed out interior, full crew accommodations, and some programs for basic operation … not to mention my experimental 5.0 hangar carousel which I’m designing specifically for the Yamato. All of that’s going to take a while to figure out and implement. It’s big news though, so I’ll keep the blog updated on my progress.
In other news, Z23 is nearly finished and is likely to be the next workshop upload!
I think I might have insomnia. Send help.
2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
This is a general update and not project specific. To start, I've been pretty sick the last couple of weeks. That nuked almost every end-of-the-year plan and goal I had for 2023, including the Yamato project. Even as I write this, I'm only just 'recovering.' There's...
Okay so the Cosmo Messers aren't 100% compatible with the Yamato, so I wanted to modify one to be close to spec. I somehow wound up making a full-blown Cosmo Falcon. There I go, makin' replicas again I also did some side by side comparisons on an old request and Good...
Oh my goodness ... well, things may have slowed down exponentially compared to the first 24 hours of working on this thing, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been major progress. Check this out. The exterior is nearly finished (minus coloring) The catapults work...
M.A.S.S. Builder - What’s Next 0.11.0 - Steam NewsFirst of all, before anything else, we must announce that we’re shifting our development engine to Unreal Engine 5 for the next version. Now now, we must ask that you don’t panic and assume the game is going into a...
Project Wingman - BETA BRANCH UPDATE #1: Platform Update 2.0 - Steam NewsProject Wingman Beta Branch Major Update This is big news, but it didn't show up in my feed until well over a week ago. Toss in how busy I am and I'm only now getting around to writing about it....
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