Orthanc's Creation Thread

[Orthanc]

Yep! But before the mastead, I have this stern design to finish up (it just needs it's 'nose' which is actually the rudder, which will basically be a wing):

In the water, the face will be suberged up to a little bit below the eyes, the plan is to show this part of during the death animation

 

[Goldflash]

ITS THE ROCK DUDE FROM LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE!

ON A SHIP!

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[Orthanc]

Somehow, I think you're just gonna love what I've put up on the bow Goldflash:

Yeah, those are cannons in it's eyes and mouth

 

[Partizanac]

O man this unit will be awesome!!!

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I like it already...

 

[Stormrage]

Oh my, thats very imaginative.. In other words, OMG!, OMG!, its soo kewl!

 

[Quinzy]

awesome!

 

[Spacer One]

wow...looks great...

where is the civ color?...I think it would look cool on the feathers...where its green now...

 

[Orthanc]

While I'm modelling, Civ-color is ALWAYS red, because the first thing I make once modelling's done is the civilopedia entries, which use civcolor red. Currently, the eyes of the skull and the face at the back are civ-colored, as well as the design wrapped around the hull, and the center of the small yellow feathers are also red. Once the sails are up, the design on them will be civ-colored as always.

 

[Goldflash]

I'm pretty sure this should win ana ward for the most nautically unsound ship ever.

 

[Plotinus]

I've got to agree with Goldflash there. Unless it's all polystyrene painted to look like stone, of course. But that's one of the most imaginative unit designs I've ever seen.

 

[Stormrage]

What if the temple was made of wood?

 

[Goldflash]

Its really the figurehead and the.. stern. There have been ships with big marble temples on their decks before. One of them Roman emperors had one. Of course, that one stayed on a lake, I think.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Actually there are various stones (of the porous lava variety) that do float on water if they're not too big. The samples i have seen were dark red in color. An imaginatively inclined MesoAm civ might very well decide that the psyops value of a stone war god attacking enemy navies would be worth putting stone facia on a balsa core or some such.

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

Don't forget that ancient Egyptians used barges to transport giant chunks of limestone and granite up and down the Nile.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Or the temples could be made of white pumice, a volcanic rock that, due to many air pockets actually floats. There are two varieties of pumice; a black and a white one. I have a small piece of black pumice in my rock collection (which I've floated to verify that there was, indeed, such a thing as a rock that floats), but I've seen white pumice in various places....

Or, as Blue Monkey suggested, the temples could be stone-cased wood (much like many modern "stone" houses).

 

[mrtn]

...or it could be made out of witches...

 

[Orthanc]

Yeah, I thought of the pumice thing too, it would make this thing bob like a cork with that much at the back. I actually have a tiny bit of white pumice somewhere around here, beginnings of the first real Mextlii? I think so.

By the way, TABLET'S RULE, AS DO PARENTS FOR GETTING ME ONE.

Merry Christmas!

 

[Orthanc]

Mextli is done! Board here.

Now onto that Solaris (yet another fictional Meso-American ship But now form the FUTURE), I'm hoping I can time manage to get that done while working on my portfolio before the holiday ends. I'm back at college by Monday, but depending on how fast the courses start up again, I might squeeze a little unit making time in there.

 

[Spacer One]

is it gonna be a space ship or a futuristic boat?...

good luck with school...