It's Not Easy Being Green (March 10, 2006)

Bandit LOAF · 03-09-2006, 16:00

... but wait, there's more! Remember Marc's WC2-style Coventry-type Destroyer (details here) and Victory-type Light Carrier (details here)? Well, they've been joined by the obvious third: a WC2-style Ajax-type Cruiser! Check it out below. You can also find a spinning animation of his Ranger here. Awesome stuff!

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Original update published on March 10, 2006

Bearcat · 03-10-2006, 17:48

Wow, they really do look a lot better that way. Especially the carrier.

NinjaLA · 03-10-2006, 17:52

hehe.. now it feels like there should be a wc3 mod just to add the green

Lt.Death100 · 03-10-2006, 18:31

Maybe there could be some wc2 style capships from wc3 in Standoff.

Bandit LOAF · 03-10-2006, 18:33

I reckon' Standoff already has its capital ships planned out.

Quarto · 03-11-2006, 01:31

Quite.

Tarquinn · 03-11-2006, 03:15

Someone please recolour the Paradigm this way.

Please.

Delance · 03-11-2006, 11:05

Very nice. A WC2 Durgano would be cool.

Marc · 03-11-2006, 13:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tarquinn

Someone please recolour the Paradigm this way.

Please.

Happy to oblige

I made a really quick model of it (there isn't anything modeled on the underside of this thing)
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/511/paradigm012tt.gif

and then I gave it the WC2 paint job... nothing exceptionnal about it though.
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/7...adigm024gj.gif

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delance

Very nice. A WC2 Durgano would be cool.

...... oh boy.. does anyone have some reference material on the shape of the Durango?

Delance · 03-11-2006, 13:23

The Durango is the Intrepid, of course.

Marc · 03-11-2006, 13:27

ok... let me put it another way. Does anyone have any reference materiel on the Durango-Class destroyer named Intrepid that was featured in WC4? (profile view, top view, anything that is other than those innacurate angle views that always mix me up)

Bandit LOAF · 03-11-2006, 21:58

Crap, I made five views of the Intrepid and the Tango last week...

... and left them on my computer in Texas. If no one else has anything, I'll post them when I get back next week.

Tarquinn · 03-12-2006, 01:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc

Happy to oblige

I made a really quick model of it (there isn't anything modeled on the underside of this thing)
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/511/paradigm012tt.gif

and then I gave it the WC2 paint job... nothing exceptionnal about it though.
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/7...adigm024gj.gif

Awesome! Thank you very much, Marc!

I'm fascinated with the Paradigm, the design still looks too alien for a terran ship.

Quarto · 03-12-2006, 02:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc

Happy to oblige

I made a really quick model of it (there isn't anything modeled on the underside of this thing)
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/511/paradigm012tt.gif

and then I gave it the WC2 paint job... nothing exceptionnal about it though.
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/7...adigm024gj.gif

Very pretty... I think it might be better, though, if you retexture it completely. I mean, right now you've just swapped blue for green - but I think it might look more WC2-like if you make most of the hull green, Gilgamesh-style. Additionally, the glowing green strip should really be glowing red on a WC2 capship.

Bandit LOAF · 03-12-2006, 04:27

Worth noting, perhaps, that the Origin FX 'TCS Paradigm' screensaver is set in 2664... and that Paradigm looks like the ones in Privateer. So, perhaps the Privateer paint scheme *is* the WC2 Paradigm.

Marc · 03-12-2006, 07:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quarto

Very pretty... I think it might be better, though, if you retexture it completely. I mean, right now you've just swapped blue for green - but I think it might look more WC2-like if you make most of the hull green, Gilgamesh-style. Additionally, the glowing green strip should really be glowing red on a WC2 capship.

Good point...
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/1...adigm033xw.gif

Found it! took me a while but I managed to find a CIC-News thread on fan-made WC4 models released a couple of years back. Was so exited I closed the window before reading the name of the modeler- dam.
But the important thing to remember is that it's not mine... but I can get to work on making mine

Quarto · 03-12-2006, 07:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bandit LOAF

Worth noting, perhaps, that the Origin FX 'TCS Paradigm' screensaver is set in 2664... and that Paradigm looks like the ones in Privateer. So, perhaps the Privateer paint scheme *is* the WC2 Paradigm.

Sure, but this isn't really about which paint scheme is appropriate where and when - it's more a question of what the Paradigm would have looked like had it been made specifically for WC2, with a paintjob matching the rest of the WC2 ships.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc

Good point...
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/1...adigm033xw.gif

Looking better and better. There's just one issue left - this ship has no windows

. I know that's how it was in the original, but it is pretty crazy nonetheless

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TopGun · 03-13-2006, 14:33

Man they look great

Shades2585 · 03-14-2006, 06:40

WOW great work.

I know most people are doing it with the old WC I and II model but the one thing I don’t like is the width of the panel lines. In the past it was necessary to have them that wide because of the low resolution but that’s not necessary now and I think it detracts from the details you’ve made. My 2cents.

Great work though. Wish I could do that.

Mjr. Whoopass · 03-14-2006, 18:02

I'd be interested in seeing a model of the Durango from before it was converted to a carrier. It should look different than it did in WC4. I think The Price of Freedom book says it looked like a destroyer that had a launch bay welded onto it (or something along those lines).

Delance · 03-15-2006, 06:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mjr. Whoopass

I'd be interested in seeing a model of the Durango from before it was converted to a carrier. It should look different than it did in WC4. I think The Price of Freedom book says it looked like a destroyer that had a launch bay welded onto it (or something along those lines).

I don't know what that could mean, unless the original didn't had the middle part. I suppose you could simply remove the launch bay from the model.

Bandit LOAF · 03-15-2006, 08:12

It comes from the game's script, IIRC, which claims the bay was 'slung under" the ship.

Marc · 03-15-2006, 14:46

Now that I modeled my own version of the destroyer (that original model was a very good starting point), I've only started to play around with the colors. I haven't given it the WC2 treatement yet.
http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/6...rango010de.gif

But about the original configuration, if one did remove the middle part, the one "slung under" the ship, it still doesn't look half bad...
http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/1...rango022uo.gif

Mace · 03-15-2006, 15:52

wasn't it two obsolete destroyers welded together through the bridge and the launch bay?

Bandit LOAF · 03-15-2006, 16:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mace

wasn't it two obsolete destroyers welded together through the bridge and the launch bay?

It was not.

AD · 03-15-2006, 17:57

Shouldn't there technically be a section on top of the middle? In wc4 the top decks including the bridge had been blown off. I'd say it wouldnt look half bad with a wc2 style tower somewhere in the middle

03-09-2006, 16:00	#1
Bandit LOAF It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly. Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ashton, MD, USA Posts: 23,954	It's Not Easy Being Green (March 10, 2006) ... but wait, there's more! Remember Marc's WC2-style Coventry-type Destroyer (details here) and Victory-type Light Carrier (details here)? Well, they've been joined by the obvious third: a WC2-style Ajax-type Cruiser! Check it out below. You can also find a spinning animation of his Ranger here. Awesome stuff! -- Original update published on March 10, 2006

03-10-2006, 17:52	#3
NinjaLA Drowned Kilrathi Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seward, AK Posts: 738	hehe.. now it feels like there should be a wc3 mod just to add the green __________________ WC webcomic and art galleries

03-10-2006, 18:33	#5
Bandit LOAF It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly. Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ashton, MD, USA Posts: 23,954	I reckon' Standoff already has its capital ships planned out. __________________ Long live the Confederation, Ben "Bandit" Lesnick, LMG. "You go, Loaf! Get some!" -JPG

03-11-2006, 11:05	#8
Delance Victory, you say? Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: São Paulo, Brazil Posts: 4,220	Very nice. A WC2 Durgano would be cool. __________________ "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." -- Chesterton

03-11-2006, 13:23	#10
Delance Victory, you say? Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: São Paulo, Brazil Posts: 4,220	The Durango is the Intrepid, of course. __________________ "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." -- Chesterton

03-10-2006, 17:48	#2
Bearcat Cadet Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 60	Wow, they really do look a lot better that way. Especially the carrier.

03-10-2006, 18:31	#4
Lt.Death100 Colonel Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The heart of all evil, Utah. Posts: 1,162	Maybe there could be some wc2 style capships from wc3 in Standoff.

03-11-2006, 01:31	#6
Quarto Unknown Enemy Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Poland Posts: 9,918	Quite.

03-11-2006, 03:15	#7
Tarquinn Cadet Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 73	Someone please recolour the Paradigm this way. Please.

03-11-2006, 13:27	#11
Marc Captain Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: 3rd Rock Posts: 479	ok... let me put it another way. Does anyone have any reference materiel on the Durango-Class destroyer named Intrepid that was featured in WC4? (profile view, top view, anything that is other than those innacurate angle views that always mix me up) __________________ "Untill you realise that someday you will die, you are useless"_fightclub

03-11-2006, 21:58	#12
Bandit LOAF It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly. Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ashton, MD, USA Posts: 23,954	Crap, I made five views of the Intrepid and the Tango last week... ... and left them on my computer in Texas. If no one else has anything, I'll post them when I get back next week. __________________ Long live the Confederation, Ben "Bandit" Lesnick, LMG. "You go, Loaf! Get some!" -JPG

03-12-2006, 04:27	#15
Bandit LOAF It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly. Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ashton, MD, USA Posts: 23,954	Worth noting, perhaps, that the Origin FX 'TCS Paradigm' screensaver is set in 2664... and that Paradigm looks like the ones in Privateer. So, perhaps the Privateer paint scheme is the WC2 Paradigm. __________________ Long live the Confederation, Ben "Bandit" Lesnick, LMG. "You go, Loaf! Get some!" -JPG

03-13-2006, 14:33	#18
TopGun Vampire Ace Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portsmouth, UK Posts: 3,367	Man they look great __________________ Wing Commander, Alpha Wing, Wolfpack Squadron, TCS William Eisen

03-14-2006, 06:40	#19
Shades2585 none Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 276	WOW great work. I know most people are doing it with the old WC I and II model but the one thing I don’t like is the width of the panel lines. In the past it was necessary to have them that wide because of the low resolution but that’s not necessary now and I think it detracts from the details you’ve made. My 2cents. Great work though. Wish I could do that. __________________ It's not about getting what you want but working with what you get.

03-14-2006, 18:02	#20
Mjr. Whoopass I was going to say something funny about what you did, but looking at this silly robot made me too happy to remember what to write. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bloomington/Normal Illinois Posts: 847	I'd be interested in seeing a model of the Durango from before it was converted to a carrier. It should look different than it did in WC4. I think The Price of Freedom book says it looked like a destroyer that had a launch bay welded onto it (or something along those lines). __________________ "Being a Christian isn't always a cruise ship to heaven. It's often like boarding the TCS Midway surrounded by Nephilim, stationed at the gates of Hell, and getting a refit in Heaven."

03-15-2006, 08:12	#22
Bandit LOAF It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly. Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ashton, MD, USA Posts: 23,954	It comes from the game's script, IIRC, which claims the bay was 'slung under" the ship. __________________ Long live the Confederation, Ben "Bandit" Lesnick, LMG. "You go, Loaf! Get some!" -JPG

03-15-2006, 14:46	#23
Marc Captain Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: 3rd Rock Posts: 479	Now that I modeled my own version of the destroyer (that original model was a very good starting point), I've only started to play around with the colors. I haven't given it the WC2 treatement yet. http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/6...rango010de.gif But about the original configuration, if one did remove the middle part, the one "slung under" the ship, it still doesn't look half bad... http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/1...rango022uo.gif __________________ "Untill you realise that someday you will die, you are useless"_fightclub

03-15-2006, 15:52	#24
Mace Major Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 528	wasn't it two obsolete destroyers welded together through the bridge and the launch bay?

03-15-2006, 17:57	#26
AD Finder of things, Doer of stuff Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 3,067	Shouldn't there technically be a section on top of the middle? In wc4 the top decks including the bridge had been blown off. I'd say it wouldnt look half bad with a wc2 style tower somewhere in the middle __________________ "I saw a monster come with speed, Its face of grimmliest green, On human beings used to feed, Most dreadful to be seen." - Excerpt from Horrors, Lewis Carroll, 1850