OK, got all excited, because I finally got a decent fusilage of a space ship, and it's all because of what this thread said. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=107&Form.ShowMessage=2496863&Form.sess_id=55609692&Form.sess_key=1134332792 This is great stuff. Thanks to all who shared their thoughts on this and for the great Lightwave site. Special thanks to garryts, Kai and pakled. The model is an existing Wings model I had, though it hardly resembles any of the original renderings now. Cool tuts and advice, all.

Great picture, I would hate to pay the bodyshop bill!

damn! the reavers are coming! cool texture and cool ship :)

For Sale: One slightly used spacecraft, needs work, a real fixer upper. Cheap to good home.

Could also be used for one tha tis under construction make a orbital dockyard and a few small vehicles pusing parts around. Maybe an astronaught floating nearby.

"See? I told you we were too close to that Solar Flare.." Great modelling!

Hey Waldomac, glad you found the thread useful - looks like you are having lots of fun there! Great modelling - post an update when you have developed the scene. Garry

No fair, no fair! I wanna do dat! Love the effect Waldomac.

FranOnTheEdge: You are kind. However, as much as I hate to say this, I have to say it is really easy. Using the advice on visiting the Lightwave site for the textures was step one; downloading the textures was step two; matching, as the previous thread suggested, color and transparency and tweaking just a little was a pretty easy step three. The model was panned by everybody I ever showed it to. It's about two years old, and it was a Wings model. What it did have was a little topography to it, so I thought would show the texture to its best advantage, and it definitely did that, I think, so that was serendipity. When I first created this model in Wings, it was a dual-purpose vehicle, a space ship and a submarine. Nobody liked it, it seems, and they all thought it was a bad design, so it was logical to send it to the scrap yard. :) This is definitely a case of "If I can do it, anybody can."

Hanging by a thread eh? Lol! Fun!

See, I told you you could do it.

Yeah, but a "Bullet Bus" isn't quite the same as your spaceship. I'm a bit busy with my dome at the moment - gotta make some contents for it... I seem to have slipped into making interiors rather than exteriors - I may use it on the dome later.