Corellian Corvette (Tantive IV) (Part 1)

Tantive IV

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Initially I had decided to build a freighter or smaller civilian ship however my original idea of making the Royal Naboo Starship turned out to be to difficult at this stage to get the insane amount of curves correct so instead I found myself working on creating a model of the Tantive IV. This ship i choose as it has many different lines and shapes built into it which would give me experience in merging all the different curves and shapes together to form 1 ship, as well as the different weapons and radar that can be seen in the reference photos i used. 

Base shape:

The basic outline of the ship was built using sever cylinders and a cube that was shaped and attached at points to form the general shape of the main body of the ship.

The front nose shape i used the multi cut tool to create rings around the cyclinder so that i could then select the faces and extrude then to create a sort of nose shape at the top front end of the ship.

 The section below is the middle of the ship behind it would be a end cylinder section with engines attached at the back end. This end of the ship as shown in the reference images has extra lines and curves moving towards it at the corners so i tried to build those in. However I decided that these were extra details that could be added later.

 Below i used a cube which was extruded and then resized to create a smaller version of itself to give the engine the current shape that it has, with a cylinder again resized and positioned inside of it to make the exhaust section of the ship.

 As there needed to be 11 engines on the ship, 8 of which would be identical in design I added basic details to them such as hatches and boxes that would be made into electrical boxes and pipes during the texture phase.
To create the 4-3-4 layout of engines I had to re-scale and then position the engines before duplicating and mirroring them to fit on the underside of the ship.