The outer hull paneling is starting with the bottom first. Spacers made of small pieces of plastic cut to the proper width are glued in place to separate the two profiles. Now both side-view profiles have been cut out. More progress shots as it begins to take shape. This will give me a surface I can plank on the outer hull to bring the dimensions back to full size. Using Illustrator's Offset Path tool, I was able to get another line, drawn inwards of the outer line, displaced exactly the thickness of the plastic I'll be using. The centerline diagram has a double line thickness.the outer line is the overall dimension of the ship. The four pieces to the left are the top render, side render, Illustrator side view along centerline, and the same again, only cut out from the plastic. I will be building a double spine which will not only be structural support, but also a segment of the ship's outer structure. More was just pouring over any pictures and screen captures I could find from the game.Īfter getting some line diagrams printed to full model size, I used Illustrator to draw what would be the internal spine for the ship. Some of that involved many hours of having the Master Chief running around on top of the ship as it was docked with the Cairo space station. The model started out with extensive research. Where the Autumn is about 46' in length, the In Amber Clad will be shorter at almost 19' long. It will also be built to the same scale, 1/1000. This model will be made in the same way as the in-progress model of the Pillar of Autumn I have underway. The frigate is commanded by Commander Miranda Keyes, daughter of the late Captain Jacob Keyes, of the UNSC cruiser Pillar of Autumn. This is a rendering of the UNSC ship In Amber Clad as seen in the video game Halo 2.

Unsc frigate 3d model