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Published: 2018-03-11 23:27:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 20493; Favourites: 517; Downloads: 271
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Maybe it's from doing all that work on the Cirrus (tekka-croe.deviantart.com/art/… ) but I've had a fierce hankering for space art these last few days. This was an experiment in building and using 3D reference meshes for drawing spacecraft. I was strongly inspired by 's wonderful space art.An Orndun-Class heavy cruiser of the Saldean Home Fleet, accompanied by a frigate escort. There is no pretension in the way that Saldeans design their fighting ships: the ship is a gun. It is extremely rare to find a Saldean military vessel without the muzzle of at least one colossal centerline railgun peeking out of the prow (the ships do, of course, also possess the lasers, beam cannons, and missile batteries that one would expect to find on a military ship).
Unsurprisingly, Saldean space has an extremely low incidence of piracy.
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Comments: 15
TippexArt [2018-06-18 17:14:10 +0000 UTC]
Are the Saldean another human faction or an alien race like the Corrupted?
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Tekka-Croe In reply to TippexArt [2018-06-21 01:54:45 +0000 UTC]
Saldeans are not human, but are so strongly humanoid that they are believed to share a common ancestor.
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TippexArt In reply to Tekka-Croe [2018-06-26 01:23:57 +0000 UTC]
thanks for the information, loving every part of the Novus Imperium lore! keep up the good work.
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Savoretti [2018-03-15 20:40:50 +0000 UTC]
I absolutely love the idea of ships that are guns. Of course it goes back to Halo for me, but man... What an idea.
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Jin-Ghi-Lives [2018-03-14 10:51:26 +0000 UTC]
Legends of Galactic Heroes, is what this reminds me of.
The box structured ships is kind of reminiscent to that used by the Alliance.
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icekatze [2018-03-12 21:31:10 +0000 UTC]
hi hi
Do you have any tips or tricks you figured out on using 3D reference meshes with drawing? It looks like you've got a good workflow figured out, judging by this anyways.
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Deuce777 [2018-03-12 15:51:14 +0000 UTC]
one-shots Tiidaan Battlecruisers 10/10 would get shreked by again
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DBrentOGara [2018-03-12 07:06:38 +0000 UTC]
Superb! I can feel the 'Dae' leaking through... and the 'Homeworld' behind it. Lovely art, really elegant designs and a great bit of space art overall!
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TheGreatMuzzles [2018-03-12 05:24:15 +0000 UTC]
What a refreshingly simple take on large starships. Like this a lot.
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Daemoria [2018-03-12 04:33:04 +0000 UTC]
Oooh. Now this is a cool image to wake up to see in my inbox. I'll have to post a full detailed comment once I pull my brain out of the fug'.
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Tekka-Croe In reply to Daemoria [2018-03-14 03:39:54 +0000 UTC]
...So, how's that brain doing?
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