Halo - Marathon Heavy Cruiser

    Lancake

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    This is my third big project and it is going to take weeks (maybe months) to finish it.

    It is 1200m long and I pretty much finished the most basic shape. The length and height proportions are good but unfortunately the width seems too small, atleast according to the wiki. Don't be mistaken though, the ship looks like the real deal but for some reason the width doesn't seem to be accurate...

    Since it's going to be a full scale ship, I made some full scale stuff too :)

    - 2 mac guns of about 700m long that look like the ones on orbital platforms.

    - 1:1 scale pelicans with warthogs docked at the back, still wondering how many i'll dock inside the ship.

    - 1:1 scale longswords, here is the problem though, in halo 2 and 3 and everything after that the longswords were scaled down to like 30m long, but in reality they are 70m long so they look a lot bigger than I originally thought...I managed to find a dock where I could fly them in and I might dock 6 or 9 of them in it but not 24 like the lore says so. I might scale them down to like 60m width instead of the 70+.

    -Turrets! Turrets everywhere. The point defense turrets are normally not visible but I made them anyway, they are not that fancy but there numbers will make up for that. No pics yet because I forgot to blueprint it and the server is still down.

    -Interior: I want it, and It's going to take a while. Most interior will be hangars and a decent reactor + engine room.

    Keep in mind that this is made on a server and since that one is offline/broken atm I can't work on it :(

    Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/OVzbL

    I already made 2 other projects, some kind of a warm-up for the big one and I want some advice, like what features you like (and don't like) + features you want to see in this ship, like a huge reactor room.

    UNSC Everest (based on a mod) without interior:

    -http://star-made.org/node/12760

    UNSC Pillar Of Autumn with interior:

    -http://star-made.org/node/13492



    PS: I made a skeleton of the Normandy SR2 once and a lot of progress on it has been lost due to a server reset, I don't want to rebuild it anymore so if anyone else wants to have it, just ask (can't remember the specs but it was above 300m long, so around a scale of 3:1 because I wanted to fit the real interior in it)
     
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    Its nice to finally see a Halo ship that is actually to scale and not laughably small.
     

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    server is back online so I took a picture of it: http://i.imgur.com/kh0i6bq.jpg

    (The left one is a tryout, the right one is the real thing)
     
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    i do like the contour lines, cant wait to see it finished, keep up the good work
     

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    http://imgur.com/a/DzWEk

    Well most of the hull is now complete, only the engines and the belly remain to be done (i\'m talking about the basic shape here, not details). I already started adding details at the front and on some parts, kinda experimenting atm to see what fits and should be removed.

    I also started at the interior a bit, just the basic hangar in the middle that will house around *starts counting* around 20-30 pelicans and 4-6 SMALL Longswords (longswords that will be 1/2 of the actually size otherwise they don\'t fit in the small side hangars) Those will be the fighters and the huge top hangar will have the 1:1 longswords, won\'t be able to get more than 4 in the ship though.

    I also found a good spot where to put hundreds of ODST pods, I\'m pretty sure this ship held more than 100 pods in the halo universe (a destroyer has around 100 ready to launch and this is a cruiser) but i\'m still not sure if I really should dock 100+ small ships or just make them not functional.

    You can also see the 2 main mac guns in the inside, keep in mind that i have yet to add detail to it (basicly brown and black blocks). You won\'t see them on the outside and probably not from the inside.

    If you have any idea of what to add more, please comment ^^
     
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    this is incredible were you get the patience for something like this i don\'t know.

    every body seams to make frigates and cruisers why can\'t someone make a carrier?
     

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    I might make one after this ^^, The halo universe doesn\'t really have dedicated carriers though. We don\'t have any ingame footage of them atleast...Most ships have a mac gun and hangars to hold some spaceships so I guess this is a \"carrier\".
     

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    but like i said, it\'s basicly an oversized cruiser. It has a mac gun and lots of archer missiles with a bigger arsenal of longswords (and also shitty armor, doesn\'t really matter against plasma though). Besides we have little information about them and almost no idea how they look like.

    This guy makes a lot of good 3d fan-art models including his take on carriers: http://annihilater102.deviantart.com/art/UNSC-Athens-Carrier-365861991
     
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    You are hands down, the best Halo starmaker that there is. I say this confidently, having seen a LOT of Halo creations in this game. In my opinion, you even best the great ImperialDonut. That Everest Class is some top notch superb shit, and I would love to tour either it or the Pillar of Autumn. Give us a download or just let us know where we can view this magnificent beast.
     

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    Small update: Added more detail at the sides (no screenshots, will do when finished). Finished the engine exhausts and made the 2 reactors. I lost a lot of progress due to an unexpected server reset so I had to redo some stuff, also explains why it took me so long for these minor things. It\'s all still WIP. There is no hull detail at the back yet and the reactor room has yet to be made.

    http://imgur.com/a/dC09r#0