Just a late night update on some 3D modeling I have been doing on some warp nacelle flux chiller grills. I have been focusing the past several weeks, when I can, on working out the very subtle compound curves for the chiller grills.
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Duranium Spare Ribs
While I wait to see about a line on possibly obtaining some long-sought after workbee filming miniature reference photos, I have been doing some illustrating and 3D modeling in order to help out a Facebook friend’s project. He and few others have been working on blueprints for a “refit”-era, i.e. within the timeframe that Star Trek: The Motion Picture (ST:TMP) is set, Federation-class dreadnought.
Getting Back To It
Well back in December I had a motherboard and drive issue with my iMac, and after that, was my son coming home for the holiday, then I took a slight break from the workbee while I still try and get better reference material for the aft view of it as well as the enigmatic bottom view.
Recovery
Well, I was waylaid back on December 21, when I had a cascading failure of the solid-state “fusion drive” and the logic board on my home iMac. This has prevented me from doing any substantive work on any of my workbee/Enterprise 3D modeling (and printing) this past 10 days.
Engineering a Spine
I have spent the past few evenings, when not battling driving during a snow-storm that shut down the Portland metro area, working on 3D modeling some of the parts of the workbee spine.
D’deridex Class Romulan Warbird Filming Model
On a trip to Seattle on October 1, 2016, I visited the Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, 50th Anniversary exhibition at the Sci-fi Museum which is part of the Experience Music Project Museum (EMP). While there I took a series of photos of the D’deridex Class Romulan Warbird.
Cargo Pod Insanity
I got a little side-tracked over the weekend in that I began working on some preliminary cargo pod illustrations. These will eventually be part of the cargo-train attachment on a few of the workbees.
Things are Taking Shape(ways)
This past weekend, when coming back from Sisters Oregon, location of turkey consumption at the home of my better-half’s dad and his wife, I was excited to see the initial test 3D printed pieces of the workbee upper shell in the mailbox.
Onward Shapeways
A big step forward last night and today. After working on some test 3D models to do some 3D printing for the workbee parts, I uploaded the initial upper hull piece to Shapeways, and it is now in production.
Making Headway in 3D Modeling
After purchasing the Moment of Inspiration (MoI) 3D Modeling software the other night, I have managed to make decent headway into finally getting a hyper-accurate outer shell for the workbee drawn up.
Third Wave Design 