[Assignment Models] A-Wing: Part 3 - Finishing Up

The final update for this model involves me finishing off cutaway details, adding the cockpit and guns. To begin, I extruded the border faces at the back of the ship and then bevelled them to create a curved edge. Next I made some cuts in the side of  the ship panelling to prepare a face for extrusion for the gun mounts. Once the cuts had been made and shaped into a curve I deleted any unnecessary edges and faces and inset the newly created face for the gun mounts.

Next I turned my attention to creating the cockpit. The shape shown in the image below was created by making a sphere shape, stretching it out and cutting it into a quarter by deleting faces. Next I extruded the back edges of this shape out reach the back of the ship, scaling it down slightly to match the shape in the schematic.

Next, I bridged the edges together for this shape and then grabbed the newly created face and extruded it inwards to create an inset face.

To make the next bit of cock pit detail I had to create a series of cuts around the cockpit shape, matching the lines on the schematics. Once these cuts were created I then deleted any unnecessary edges, selected all the faces that make up the "ring" shape around the cockpit and extruded them out slightly to give the cockpit some detail.

The final bit of detail on the cockpit I had to create was a small node on the top. To make this shape I began by cutting the basic shape from the top of the cylindrical shape at the back of the cockpit, selecting the appropriate faces and then extruding them upwards. After having extruded this face upwards I then created some more cuts across the shape in order to create a curve.

With the cockpit detailing finish, the final part I needed to make were the side mounted guns. To begin, I created a simple cylindrical object and began extruded and scaling faces out to create curves that matched the barrel of the gun in the schematics and reference images.

I then duplicated this process to create a second, smaller gun above the original gun.

Next, I made a series of small cuts on one of faces at the top of the bottom gun and then extruded the newly created face to join the 2 guns together. I then repeated this process a second time further up the gun barrel. Below is a picture of the finished gun barrels connected together.

Next, I made few cuts on the gun mount face that I created earlier, making a small square shape, deleting any unnecessary edges. I then selected this face and extruded it outwards to connect to the guns at the side of the ship. I repeated this process on both sides of the ship and then duplicated the 2 gun barrels and moved them to the other side of the ship. Below are pictures of the completed guns on both sides of the ship.

With the guns completed, the ship has been completed. Below are pictures of the finished ship from both of the front and the back. While making this ship I found that making the curves to match the schematics was much harder than I expected. I also made use of the techniques I used during the first model to easily and more quickly create gun barrels. Going forward I will polish these techniques even more when creating the final assignment model.