Knight26

Very nice, reminds me that I need to redo my HDDs

But there is still daily maintenance that needs to be done on any large ship and or weapon system. Let's face it a ship needs an engineering crew to keep the engines running if nothign else. Maybe it's just a lack of technician class zentraedi that kept things from getting repaired quickly on zentraedi ships. i.e. there were so few technician class that they were always down in engineering just keeping the ship flying and couldn't be bothered to make minor repairs, like those needed on Breetai's bridge. Which also jibes with Nied's theory, as the SA would have been the ones to make major repairs, i.e. downtime in the shipyards.

The whole not being able to maintain their gear thing is just stupid. Even if the their ships are in some way biological you still need at least technicians to do the day to day maintenance. Now maybe the frontline Zent grunt was not built to be too technically compitent, but then there are mutliple zent classes so their had to be technicians and engineers just to keep the ships and equipment running.

Battle 7 would only be cool if it did not transform

ack canopy reflection way too much

He's doing the series version of the SDF-1 which is what was used in rowboatblech

Belay my last all, I did some more searching and man it is a good thing I did not sign a contract with these bozos. I am going to wait on my other submissions, but these guys seem to me to be a bunch of scam artists, sorry for getting peoples hopes up, especially my own. Mods feel free to delete this thread.

Reminds me of these cheap transformable jets my wife just picked up for the boys, one is an F-14 and the other an F-16, she got them at big lots, I will have to take some pictures of them.

Open up the picture in an editor and resize it there, I do not remember what the size limit is on pictures, you would have to ask a mod, but just get the file size down and it should attach.

Yeah that was just a rough idea I came up with based on a single scene out of the book. I plan to send in many concepts for the cover art, and if allowed will see if I can get a friend or family member (my wife is an artist) permission to do the coverart. I can think of a couple of MWers that have stuff for me over the years who I would like to see if they were interested.

Was just f'n around with paint a couple pics I had on hand, how does this look for some cover art?

Exciting news all. After resubmitting my book it has been picked up by a publisher for review and publishing. Now nothing is final yet I still have to review the contract, go through an editting review, get cover art made, etc... but it looks like inside of a year my book will be published. Also due to the copyright issues with Marvel still owning my original title the book's title has been changed to Blazer Force, as of now, who knows it may change during the editting process if the Editor thinks of a better one. The publisher is a Print On Demand publishing house, so the price may be a little higher then normal, but it will be getting an ISBN and will go on store shelves. As things progress expect me to put up a website about the book giving links to where to buy it as well. I am very excited as you can probably tell and hope that my fellow MWers will get to enjoy finally reading the book who designs I have been subjecting you all to for so many years. And yes after it comes out I will sign any copies that are brought to any MWCon I attend from then on. I am also going to try and negotiate allowing a friend to do the cover art, any takers?

Not loving the head fin, but to each his own.

Cramped seats, what makes you say that the seats are cramped? The column between the legs is to hold up the main console in front of the crew members, it also has additonal screens on it, I just don't have anything on them right now. 1) Again, how is the seating arrangment uncomfortable? As a pilot I have no problem with a column like that between my legs. It also serves as a place to attach the rudder pedals, otherwise I would have to attach them differently, so that means either seperate arms for each rudder pedal, or some kind of adjusting foot rest, since the seat slides forward and backwards. 2) That was just me being lazy, but the seats can rotate so they do not need to face forward, but their range of motion is limited. I may revisit the rear seats to make them face outwards towards the walls later. 3) Oops, forgot to delete the ejection handles.

shouldn't this be in toys?

decrease the image size, if it is too large a file it won't let you upload it.

Update: Cockpit interior is in, though some textures are strictly placeholders. Will start in on the bay interior next then finish up the exterior details, though I may just use a basic texture on the exterior.

The Phalanx may have been out of ammo, or have been prioritized on fast movers. IF they are Block-0 or Block-1A Phalanx they wouldn't be able to engage the slow moving/hovering SV-51s. That is the province of the 1B.

Nice coverage image for the weapons. For the missiles though, like RAM, you are forgetting shoot around the corner, but at that range shown it wouldn't matter much. As for the fit of the Phalanx, yes most are sitting up on a 5-6" barbet if they are on top of any manned workspace.

Yeah that is a nato sea sparrow launcher

I used to know a great tutorial for that, it was on scifi-meshes, but they are currently down. As for the anntenna, you have a couple aegis style phased arrays there, the others, nothing real, something made up for the ship.

Seen it before, cool design though, would make a nice addition to the Macross universe, maybe CAS valkyrie

Update: I remodeled the seat, this will be replacing all of my current crafts ejection seat. It will also be modified for use in the different craft. ANy comments? Oh and the pilot/copilot seats for this one will be based on the attached lineart.

Nice but I would get rid of the original vertical stabs and maybe play with the legs a little more.

Are you sure that isn't the VF-11C gunpod?