Blender 3D: Characters, Machines, and Scenes for Artists

Chapter 5. Spacecraft - Adding Details

In this chapter, we'll finish modeling our spacecraft. As we do, we'll cover a few new tools and techniques. Mostly, however, we'll be expanding on what we have already learned, and applying things in different ways to create a final, complex model:

• Refining our ship
• Adding detail with pipes
• Finishing our main objects
• Do it yourself - completing the main body
• Building the landing gear
• Adding the cockpit
• Creating small details
• Working with Path objects
• Finishing touches

Refining our ship

We'll work though the spacecraft one section at a time, adding detail until it's finished.

 

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Let's start by moving everything but the main body to another layer. Then, we'll select the portions of the body that we ...