Update 1.4 Part 1 It has been a long time
Not as long as the last time I was away but not posting for two months was certainly something I had no intentions for. It has been an incredibly busy time the last two to four moths which limited the free time I hade to work on the models. However that is all behind us now and progress has been made on the fleet. In fact there has been so much progress that I am going to do it in two posts after each other to keep everything that has happened more clear.
There have been some changes
I had started to develop an electrical system which would light up certain parts of the CAS 3.0. However due to under extrusion in the model this led to massive problems with light distribution. Due to the under extrusion I had to fill this up with filler which led to darker spots on the supposed to be lighted parts(Some photo`s will illustrate the problem). Because this is a problem that occurs inside the entire ship I have decided to scrap lighting plans for now but leave enough space for when I change my mind. Although this looks like a step back it offers me more time to do more surface detailing.
Current status of CAS 3.0
I have designed and build a new bottom plate for the ship with main laser device. I had to do this as the old on was on four separate parts that didn`t Alline due to warping of the print. I have also taken a look at these weird little details on the ship.
There are 24 of those details on the ship. Halopedia says that the CAS has a lot of armament including the following: ‘
24× Mictix-pattern heavy plasma torpedo silo`s’. This looked very obvious to me so I assume they are some kind of launchers or canons on the ship.
Later iterations of the CAS like the one in Halo 2, Halo wars 2 or Halo fleet battles have some kind of cannons in place of the black dots with a silver dot in it. So after some designing I have made my own guns to add to the ship.
It is funny to see how many details align with the lore once you really start to study a ship model and question why the developers put certain parts or details on the ship. I am already wondering what I will find on the CPV and later models!
At the moment the ship is about 95% finished. The parts have all been assembled and seams have been filled up. The model has been sanded, painted with primer and painted in its livery according to a combination between the Halo 3, and Halo fleet battles version.
The only things that remain to be done are some surface details. Paint edges and other minor details. The next update(1.6) on the ship will be concluding the construction of CAS 3.0(Which from then on will be the Shadow of Intent).
Current status on the fleet
Progress has been made on the SDV Heavy corvettes and development on the CPV Destroyer and the Orbital Mac Station are also far underway. More on this in the next update
Something different as well
I have also bought two spruces from Halo fleet battles. I have done this get better views from the CCs Battlecruiser (Something in the workings) and the ORS heavy cruiser. The CCs battlecruiser from Halo fleet battles also serves another purpose as the ship model is almost as tall as a covenant light cruiser on the scale I use (1:5346). The crs on scale 1:5346 is 56,12 mm long and the one from Halo Fleet battles is about 89,5mm. This might seem a large difference but when you compare it to CAS 3.0 which is 1 solid meter long these details start to matter les.
Now you might already know where I am going with this… I am planning on cast moulding the ccs to make a large supporting fleet for the ship. This is something however that is at the bottom of my list of things I’ll be doing. Expect the CAS 3.0, SDV`s and CPV, MAC station to be finished first,
To wrap up the update
A lot of work has been done and there is still a lot to do before the ship is finished. Although the lights are
temporarily scrapped I do still have space inside the ship for if I change my mind in the future. For now I am focusing on production and just making great models! The Next update will mostly be about the SDV Heavy corvettes, CPV and the Orbital Mac station.
For now this is the first part of the update and I hope you guys like it
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As always, Enjoy!
