Some ship redesigns I made

[hard hinge]

Hi there! Here I made some tweaks to ships on photoshop, I used the images on the manual.
Here some kind of "changelog":
-Made the shade of blue darker
-Interceptor has 2 wing so it looks more different from the recon
-Added more blue for collector/controller
-removed the bridge tower on most frigates
-more turrets on assault frigate/removed pdc's
-added radars on minelayer frigate(those were on original concept art of that ship), added also a rear hangar bay. I've always thought of that ship more like a drone frigate or baserunner equivalent, being able to build probes/turrets
-more turrets on the destroyer
-more turrets on battlecruiser/bigger ion turrets and extended barrel
-extended main hangar on carrier
-removed text on mothership/added more strip colors

Now on the Incarnate:
-new fighter, edited colors from a HW2 screenshot from the Pirates mod(https://www.moddb.com/mods/pirates-mod)
-more turrets on assault frigate
-removed frontal "holes" on missile frigate, missiles would come out from those squares on the sides that look like VLS's
-made smart missile frigate more beefier, removed dorsal missile boxes to look more alike an AWACS radar

-New hiigaran corvette, just slapped a corvette cockpit on a WIP frigate on game files found by @quiet bone, could be either some kind of repair or ECM corvette

[mossy pier]

Beautiful work! I like all of these changes, especially the carrier. Good stuff!

[hard hinge]

omg thank you very much! Funnily enough, I just moved the hangar bay forward and filled in the gaps

[mossy pier]

You filled the gaps, very skillfully, and I do think it baöances the whole model out quite a bit.

[hard hinge]

Thank you again, I did it copying/pasting nearby pieces and then changing saturation and contrast in order to make the jagged edges more subtle

[hallow mirage]

I like the idea of removing text from mother ship

[dusty igloo]

god the battlecruiser is sooo much better

and the classic candycane warning pattern makes it fit in with the other games

[hallow mirage]

Actually where suppression frigate?

[hard hinge]

I actually tried to make a suppression corvette but I couldn't make it look good

[woeful chasm]

That is super sexy

[leaden chasm]

So, the Defender Corvette? NICE

[turbid cloak]

good work, kinda likes the mini bridges on the frigates but good job of the H-cruiser and carrier( love the orange colours)

[hard hinge]

Thank you, the orange was mostly a byproduct of tweaking saturation and contrast lol

[turbid cloak]

Right blue opposite of orange. Will you be doing any more corvettes ?

[hard hinge]

I don't think so, I mostly edit images and I'd like to make them something more distinct than just "railgun corvette with more/less stuff on it"

[turbid cloak]

Why don't you do so your work is very good for now. Besides it would give at alt designs

[hard hinge]

Hello there! Some time passed on and I gathered some new redesigns worthy enough for sharing, as before, here the "changelog":
-minor tweaks on the hiigaran destroyer, added a second bridge like depicted on earlier versions of the ship
-another turret layout for the hiigaran battlecruiser
-Incarnate heavy cruiser, a cropping and recoloring of the Vaygr Defense cruiser from the FX:Galaxy mod
-Incarnate titanship, rather than the reskined hiigaran dreadnought, now they have a mothership clearly showing progenitor references, cropped and recolored screenshots from the progenitor carrier in the FX Galaxy mod as well

for this latter update I'd like to thank the 9CCN team for their magnificent designs, really hyped for what they could do modding HW3

[dusty igloo]

Way better design philosophy

[hard hinge]

They not differ that much from og hw3 designs, they feel lame because of lots of flat surface with little greeble/detail but overall there's really good design there

[hard hinge]

Another ship, hiigaran "lancer", just edited a prototype ship @quiet bone shared yesterday, I wanted to give it a try on hiigaran colors

[mossy pier]

Beauty!

[hallow mirage]

Ah yes lance fighter but hiigara

[turbid cloak]

That looks very nice, Lancer is ???

[hard hinge]

Since we already have hiigaran defense field frigate, it doesn't sound that weird

[turbid cloak]

Dreb lancer fighter right forgot that

[heady briar]

these are awesome. i appreciate that you fixed the obvious problem of the turrets being behind elements of the hull blocking a lot of LOS.

[hard hinge]

Editing ships on photoshop wasn't in my hobbies' bingo card this year but boy I'm having fun with it, and I'm thankful that you people like those as well! Here I'm experimenting with adding some accent/tertiary colors, which imo is what these ships originally lacked and made them look weird in comparisson with former HW releases, at least BBI got it right with Somtaaw ships

[heady briar]

wait so your not even actually modelling. that makes this a bit more impressive. what is your process?

[hard hinge]

I've just extracted the images from the HW3 manual, put them together for each ship and just tweaked colors, cut and paste some pieces

For the FX ships I've took screenshots and cropped away the background

Its not difficult, but it can get time-consuming, I don't have neither the pc specs or patience for modeling lol