Since I've been extremely lazy about posting this, I guess I should finally get it done. For those of you who have not seen it yet, here's the link to the album of the final screenshots in its pretty-much done state ( Read more... )

This will be my second to last planned entry on the Hyperion's construction, because I have finished most of the planned work as of today. I have a few detail things here and there that I'll be doing probably over the next few months, but I'm not going to be focusing nearly so much effort on it as I have to this point. The interior remains ( Read more... )

Once the wings were filled in, I began to add some more detail to the wing engines and add the top of the engine block. The intake of the wing engines needed a little greebling to make it match the reference images a bit.

At this point the wings themselves were essentially complete aside from a few details on the top.

( More Hyperion pics! )

The next step was to begin filling in the wings and adding some of the details to them. I started this with the wing-engines that could be seen on the reference images. It took me a little while to figure out how exactly I wanted to do them. I knew I wanted them to be filled with lava, which would mean glass walls for at least part of it, but I ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I've been trying to do these on a once a week basis... so much for that, eh ( Read more... )

Went for a while without posting because I got busy with buying and moving into a house. Anyway, continuing on with the build log ( Read more... )

I neglected to mention in my last post the approximate scale I'm using here. I had to guesstimate from the images I was using as reference about what size the Hyperion was. I figured that a single deck (approximately one line of windows on the reference image) was roughly the equivalent of 2 blocks tall in Minecraft terms-- 3 if you include the ( Read more... )

I've been considering putting up a construction log for my current project in Minecraft, since I've been taking periodic progress screenshots, so I decided I'd go ahead and get started with it. You can see our map here, with the Hyperion behind Barad-Dur in the south-central region of the map (note the compass rose in the top-right corner ( Read more... )

Recognize the ship under construction south of Barad-Dur? (compass rose is in the top-right corner)

http://www.neromir.net/minecraft/map

I'm thinking about posting a making-of journal showing the in-progress screenshots I've been taking.


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This, my friends, is why Minecraft is awesome. It's not quite finished yet, but it looks pretty good already.

( Castle Greyskull )