Knight26

I think most fans and non-fans would rather see the OT left alone, and the PT redone.

Sorry but this is the stupidist thread in a long time, the original trilogy cast was perfect the way it is, don't touch it. Beside Kiera Knightley, sure she has a cute face but no body, Carrie Fisher was hot back in the day.

Ok this one did not come out too well, I may do some more work on it putting in the crewmen, but I think for now this is just too complex a composition. Thoughts?

As if we should believe anything you said, oh wait you think you're some kind of all knowing God, lol.

I think of an ex-A-10 female crew-chief who I wouldn't mind seeing do that, mmm.

Seen it, isn't it in the Sci-tech mega thread already? Of course the first uses will be industrial and military in nature, but it is still a ways off, the power requirements are probably fairly prohibitive right now.

I'm learning as I go, lol.

Some F-15 crew chief has been out in the sun a little too long, lol.

One more for the road

Update, two Splicer-3000 going in on an attack run, notice the leader has his anti-matter cannon open already.

I'm in for at least 1, have any leftovers from last year too?

that is as an awesome shot sithlord but a little too advanced for me right now to try and reproduce, especially with all the crew and shock cone, but I might be able to try something similar.

aaarrrggghhhh, ok before I can do the A-10 shot with the craft I originally intended I have to make low poly version, I tried doing it and it crashed the program, used too much memory, for some reason that design is super large in memory

I know I am in a minority on this but I said Luke V. Vader (ESB) I might have gone with Obi V Anakin (ROTS) except for how it ended was just stupid. I'm sorry I would much rather have seen Obi-Wan kick him into the lava, only to see Anakin claw his way out, then to have him leave him burning on the sand, I wouldn't even leave my worst enemy to that fate.

There are still dialupers on here? I will try the feathering thing tonight, I may also do that A-10 one next, the multiple transports would be interesting, but the dusty C-130 would be a serious pain, but I will try.

thanks for the comments guys, constructive criticism is what I need to make these better. First question how do you "feather" the selection in photoshop? I didn't notice the angle error until I had the pictures next to each other, doh! I will try and do better in the future. As for the missile carrying, I decided to go with craft of equivalent roles and this one is an interceptor and one of the few that carries any external ordnance, most carry their weapons internally.

thanks for the comments guys, the more photos I get the more I will recreate

approaching a clouded gas giant

second test, still atmospheric

Ok here are my first attempts, getting the lighting and angles to match up was a pain and I know they are not 100% but I think it works well with the given composition. Comments?

Well I finally saw Ep-3 while I was in Tucson on Vacation and these are my observations and comments: It was better then the last two, but still not as good as the OT, except in terms of most of the effects. The whole thing felt hurried, especially the openning battle, which if you read the book is like the first 1/3 of it, so I was expecting something much much bigger, especially with the saber duels. The attitude of the characters in battle, if you looked at ANakin and Obi-Wan in the battle they treated it like fragging game, there was no tension or emotion, just calm like it was no big deal. The saber duel with dooku had no emotion behind it, and I'm sorry Hayden can't act, there was no emotion in any of performances in this one. Portman never looked full term at any point in the movie, especially not with a pair of healthy twins onboard, and even her acting was horrid this time around, I think everyone just wanted to be done and leave it all behind so they were not presenting their A games. I never really got the sense that ANakin went evil, other then the dark brooding looks and the statement after the fact that he killed the younglings it seemed more like he was a guy who got trapped in the corner. You never even see him kill another jedi, only chop off Windu's hand. True he slaughters the sep leaders but so what, they were his enemy anyway, you never see him turn on his friends until the very end. If anything he is a pupper whose strings just got handed over to a new master. The Sidous battle against four jedi masters, ok come on these four are suppossed to be the baddest sword fighters and mofo jedi there are and three of them go down like wimps. I can accept one or two going down in surprise, but not all three, maybe if Sidous pulled a few more darkside tricks, but only then. The grevious duel, interesting but could have been better. The jedi purge was one of the best montages of the film, I just wish we could have seen more of that, and maybe seen a few jedi escape and go to ground, bloodied, beaten but alive, and not all caught completely off guard like a bunch of punks. The final duels were good, with lots of action, but once again no real emotion, you never really saw Obi-Wan attempting to bring Anakin back around. And, the way it ended was crap I'm sorry, I wouldn't even leave my worst enemy to burn to death like that. It would have been far more merciful to kill him right then and there. In the novelization of ROTJ and the Radio show, Obi-Wan clearly says to luke that he knocked Anakin into the molten lava and that somehow after he left Anakin clawed his way out. The very end wrapped up nicely but still I would have liked to have seen some early model ties or x-wings or y-wings. The Guy who played Tarkin looked spot on from what I could see, but Hayden just couldn't fill out the Vader Armor, I guess Vader gets some more enhancements over the next couple of decades. Overall opinion the movie was a good as it could have been given the two that came before. Had the first two been handled better this one could have been the super but kicker we all wanted to see. And, had the first two been handled better then someone who had never seen the original trilogy and watched them Ep-1 to Ep-6 sequenceially could still be caught by surprise with the Vader, "I am your father," line, if the movies had been written right in the first place. Imagine this if you will. Ep-1 features a teenage Anakin, a force sensative young warrior,say 15, never discovered by the Jedi but living on Naboo as one of the Queens guards. A trio of Jedi come to assist with the trade dispute, Qui-Gon, with his newly knighted Padawan Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan's first apprentice. We skip Tatooine all together, but ANakin mentions that he was originally from there, or that he has a half brother there, maybe they even visit. Darth Maul kills both Qui-Gon and appears to kill Obi-Wans first apprentice, kicking him down a shaft, he disappears, body never found. Anakin is made a Jedi apprentice becuase he has already been honing his skills on his own, though the council disagrees with this becuase of his age, but Qui-Gon initially wants to train him. Midi-chlorians are explained not as the cause of the force but rather as like anti-bodies that concetrate in the force sensative, if they are even left in. Ep-2 starts the clone wars, Anakin is a Jedi Knight now, maybe still an apprentice, but his relationship with Padme has grown over the intervening years and show more of his relationship to palps. The clone wars start earlier in the movie, keep Dooku but expand the character and have him make reference periodically to the fact that he will not be Sidious' apprentice long, that he is grooming another. Really show ANakins start down the dark path with him leading some major slaughter which Obi-Wan witnesses and confront him about. THis leads into their battle on Mustafar where OBi-Wan kicks Anakin into the lava, the movie ends with Padme revealing she is pregnant to Obi-Wan and a single mechanical hand clutching the volcanic sand. Ep-3 starts a few months later. Padme is nearly full term and believes ANakin to be dead, only Obi-Wan and a few on the Jedi council know of her pregnancy. Obi-Wan defeats and kills Dooku, Dooku saying that another is already there to take his place. A new sithlord appears, a proto-vader, not quite the vader we all know and fear but an earlier suit. The clone wars are coming to an end an the jedi are being slaughtered, show that the Jedi have been set up in numerous battles into accidentally killing innocents, ruining their image. Palps can then more easily declare himself emperor and when the Jedi come to arrest him, after coming up with evidence he was behind the whole thing, Vader comes in and slaughters the lot of them. Keep Palps a manipulator not a fighter, having others fight in his place. Palps then declares himself emperor after revealing the Jedi tried to kill him and introduces the man who saved him, Darth Vader, announcing he will lead the Jedi purge and end the war. Vader goes out and kills all the Jedi and the Sep leaders. Obi-Wan recognizes his moves as those he taught his own apprentices, Anakin and the who died in Ep-1 so naturally assumes that he is one of them, but is not sure who at first maybe his figures it out but leaves it unstated. He and Yoda escape and go into hiding, show a few other Jedi also escape. Padme goes into hiding on Alderaan, but say she is injured and dies a few years later and that she married Bail Organa in order to cover up who the true father is. In this way Obi-Wan really never lies to Luke either, he never knows for certain that Vader is Anakin, this allows for more surprise when he reveals the truth to Luke. Mind you this is all rough and just coming out of my head with no real work put into it, but from the few people I hace desribed just a scenario to it works much better. Perhaps if Lucas had written all three at once before starting filming on Ep-1 and had asked for help from better writers it may have come out something like this and we all would have gotten a better prequel trilogy.

Well as some of you know I have been on a redesign kick of late, redesigning many of the fighters and ships from my books. Now I have pretty much finished it, and think I want to make renders of these craft again, but what I want to do is try to recreate some famous or interesting avaition photos. I have done a couple already, but need some source material to make additional shots, so if any of you have some interesting pictures laying around your hard drive or know websites with interesting shots please let me know.

Right now it looks like I will be able to make it unless something comes up, I will PP the money tonight, but I need to be PMed with directions.

cool, what carrier do you operate off of when the squadron goes out?

I am a civilian I just work for the navy, I am regarded as an officer when I go aboard ship though. I work mostly with the Fire Controlmen, FCs, you in, if so where are you stationed?