Knight26

Actually the one with the gray fast packs isn't too horrid, now the purple fast packs, nasty.

Very nice T-hawk, looks like he might have gone a few rounds with a zentraedi, but he still keeps on fighting, go destroid man!

I've just been having fun, but this thread really has taken a dive, so rather then get sucked back in I will be ignoring it from now on unless something new about this piece of scrap movie is actually brought up. I too am getting tired of the idiocy that has started to infest the boards, not sure what caused it but I can understand why many of our long time members have left these boards.

Rod you are the man, you too datterboy. I want to see these two models head to head, valkyrie death match.

Yes I believe that is the concencous, that for various reasons (some foolish) we all agree that this movie is/will be complete and utter garbage, may it never be spoken of again.

Wow feels like the 50's again on this thread, so what other narrow minded views of yours would you like to share with the class?

Tell me you are joking

I just care about the source so I know where it comes from, not for grading purposes. I sometimes pick up random quotes and use them in various things, mostly unofficial, but its nice to have the source in case someone asks.

Interesting quote in your sig, where does it come from. YOu know maybe its me but when people have a quote in their sig they really should put the source.

Let's clear a few things up regarding my last post a few following: SHin you were just a little off on what I do for a living: I am the Resident Aerospace Engineer assigned to the Rolling Aiframe Missile Guided Missile Launcher In Service Engineering Branch, of the Port Hueneme Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Or the RAE-RAM-GMLS-ISEA-NAVSEA-PHD, but that is a really ugly accronym and most people don't get it, nor understand why a few letters change and change position. In regards to the design of the "stealth" plane. From an aerodynamic standpoint, it is garbage, from a stealth standpoint it is garbage (it has greeblies [useless adds just added to the model to look good] for god's sake). From an astethic standpoint, well I've thrown up chunks of stomach lining that looked better then that. Now in regards to the virtues of female pilots. I base my comments on a good friend of mines master thesis on flight physiology on the differences between the sexes when it comes flying. He had a really cool title for it but I can't remember it, that same paper got him his PHD before he went on to get his MD. His paper did prove that women can pull G's better then men, mostly this due to how their lower abdomonal muscles are constructed. Being made to push out babies the muscles can deliver blood to the brain better when excuting the good old M1 manuever. Women have long been proven to be better multi-taskers then men and in a combat cockpit this is essential with the flood information a pilot recieves. Target tracking comes from the multi-tasking ability. As for keeping their heads better in a crisis, believe it or not most women, who are not coddled and forced in little girl roles, actually do keep their head better and tend not to target fixate. Note I say most. This is primarily because most female pilots, aside from those out to prove themselves and their sex, tend not to let ego get in the way of their accomplishing the mission. I helped him with some of his research, which included work in simulators, actual aircraft, and centrifuges, only time I ever G-locked was when I went head to head in the 'fuge with my ex-gf. I have also dated two female pilots, one who is now the in the air force as a First Assignment Instructor Pilot, and has been rated their top instructor for the last year and a half. And, the other who is a hornet driver down in San Diego. I also have many male pilot friends, and I myself am a civilian pilot, and most, once the egos are set aside will admit that women tend to make equal, if not at times, better pilots. And Panzer your idiocy regarding adding women to the roles of action films is just flawed beyond belief, especially in this case. Current projections show that in the next 20-30 years 1 in 4 or 5 (depending on the study) combat pilots will be women. So for a movie that takes place near future it would not be surprising that a trio of ace pilots would have a woman as one of their number. Overall the movie looks like the typical driven by the special effects POS that hollywood loves to turn out. It looks like at its core it once had a decent, maybe even good, storyline that was lost once the moron who made the Fast and Furious (another POS movie) came onboard, at least Vin Diesel isn't in it. There I have said my piece for now, you want to make personnal attacks on me Panzer take it off the boards.

You are a complete idiot, reverse both your statements and it might make sense, the plane is garbage, poorly designed, and FYI women actually make better combat pilots then men, better able to pull G's, better multi-taskers, can track more targets visually, and tend to keep their head better, need I go on?

Registry

Reverse thrust, just need engine effects now.

cockpit

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Hand me the Fork, the Mk-1 Solaar is Completed: Here are the pics, fully textured, with the units for the the 36th Attack Squadron. Enjoy, comments are still welcome, trying to figure out whether or not to put colors and unit marks on the missile packs. Oh and yes I noticed the texture error on the top of the fins, I will correct it. Also the pic of the upper aft right quarter you can see the vector paddles in the closed position, where they act as thrust reversers.

So, do the craft have cockpit views or are they strictly over the shoulder?

underside

Update: Well my machine is back up and running and I have cranked out some textures for the fuselage. These have no flight colors at this time, I will have to figure out a color scheme for these this week. Appreciate any comments.

What is up with those X-wings, they're all messed up, why can't Lucasarts ever make a proper X-wing?

Actually, the pilot can set the cannon to auto fire on the MiG-29 and Su-27 when using he GsH-301. When that happens the laser range finder data determines the best shot and when that occurs it will automaticallty fire a 5-10 rounds burst off the gun. The gun has something like an 80+% chance of hitting the target in such cases and testing shows that it only takes between 3-4 hits to take down an F-16 if it hits the fuselage.

Update: Well I finished the upper wing, but the pics of that are at home, sorry. But I was bored so before I went to lunch I rendered the following image, later retouched in photo-paint to give it a line art look. It's the new Solaar on the ground with a Lodran, basically a 7.5' tall shark man standing next to it. Really gives the thing a sense of scale when you see this. The Lodran was created by Exo, based off a description sheet I sent him. Comments are appreciated.

Dead link CObywan

Um, I'm not entirely sure how I should take that, as a compliment or a dis, *scratches head furiously.* Really those designs just look like they took the old Mospeada capships, did them in CG and maybe added a few bits. The only one that looks signficantly different is the dropship and cockpit of the Shadow Alpha. I mean come on why not come up with new designs? @Shin, thanks for standing up for me bro, also sorry for the lack of updates on my latest, trying to get my desktop back up and running, ugh, going to have to do a complete wipe and restore then reinstall all my drivers and software, I hate microsoft.

Stover wrote it in first person, the whole thing or just that part?