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War Basestar MkII BSG B&C

War Basestar MkII from Battlestar Galactica Blood & Chrome

Where do begin with this one...

This one was by far my most challenging build, so much so that I don't consider it finished yet. Will probably work on it some time more, but not as of yet, I'm sick and tired of it and need a break, will probably chill until 2.0 releases.

It took me months to finish this, since there are no orthogonals of this ship and no dimensions.

Made out of Trinium, lots of it, 15 slots, up to 120 large fighters, it has everything you need.

It turns slow as hell, Cylon Basestars never were known for their manuoverability.

It has the bare minimum to get you though and more than half of the ship is hollow so you can customize it to your needs.

Its not painted, the details are admitedly lacking. The ship is already 18700 blocks, so no way I'm detailing that sheet.

If someone wants to edit it to make it look nicer, please do, feel free to upload it, but at least mention me in some way, it took too much work. Also you can message me and I'll send you a hollow quarter of the ship so it's easier to customize and/or detail.

How did I make the model?

Well first I had to get some element I can compare to to get an estimate of the size of the ship, at first I wanted to use the Osiris, but the size was too inconsistent from shot to shot (check the pics I uploaded), so I used the War Basestar Mk I (The TOS one) as it very much looks like it but with the TRS' hull merged.

Then I had to make a 3D model, so i made an estimate on how long the wings were from shots from the movie, which as I said earlier were very inconsistent.

After that I made a template of the 3 wings and the profile and extruded it to make out the general shape of the wings and superpossed it to the original Basestar.

Thus the ship came out to be 3km long (largest ship so far in BSG).

Then with a voxelizer I turned into avorion format. Which returned the general shape made out of 100k+ 10m^3 cubes.

The next step was use slopes to make it smooth, and boy oh boy did the troubles begin...

I had to make the wings over and over again, because even though it looks like an easy straight shape the truth is way more complex than that.

Months after, and many failed attempts I finally struck with something that resembled the ship, so I stuck to it. With a month or two of on and off work I finally completed the shell.

Lastly I filled the insides with modules and this is the result.

Tags: Battlestar Galactica, BSG, Cylon