Max - a Trimaxian Drone Ship

Artwork Works in Progress
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I got flight of the Navigator on blu-ray last week and it inspired me to have a crack at Max, the ship.

I have never seen an accurate mesh of this ship - which is weird considering its such a classic. Seemingly very simple in design - the shape is actually quite complicated to get right.

I grabbed some poor quality screen caps from the version of the movie that is on youtube (particularly the images from the computer screens in the hospital showing a wireframe schematic of the ship) as a reference. I only wish my computer had a blu-ray drive - I would have loved to use HD screencaps from my blu-ray - but no matter.

Its starting to come together - although it is nowhere near “there” yet. I have still got a lot more tweaking to do. but I thought i’d share my progress:

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You must be as old as me. Nice!

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Great effort so far, looking forward to see you do the steps and open entrance to the ship :slight_smile:

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After some tweaking - still not happy with it though.

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Looks very good, if I remember correctly the craft had a bit more shine on it, kinda like a liquid silver metal

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this is great! But I remember it being a little more reflective

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The material is temporary - whilst i’m modelling. I’m not going to worry about getting the material right until i’m happy with the shape.

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Another update - starting to come together.

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Well the shape looks really good

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Ah yes. the Flight Of the navigator!