Knight26

Update, I redid the rocket packs, moved the Heavy Plaser down, adding mounts to them, the barrels were free floating, and slapped the old thrust vectoring plates back on. YOu'll notice that they have opennings in them, basically when they slap together and close those opening duct the thrust out to slow the fighter down. Also I redid the rocket packs to carry fewer, but much larger and much faster rockets, Kinetic Kill Weapons, gotta love it.

This one is so fake its not even funny.

And we thought Harmony Gold was destroying these animes enough already. http://www.robotech.com/news/viewarticle.php?id=215

Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians? WTF is that? Was it an 80's attempt to make what they are now doing with Justice league or just a rename of the old JLA/SUper Friends? Interesting that the ship has the SDF-1 bridge section and all of the race was minaturized, hmm, oh my god it's a true macross crossover those people are the Protoculture!!!! Please ignore me right now I have a cold and evil blind drunk monkeys are telling me what to type.

She actually looks somewhat approaching attractive in that picture, someone must be feeding her.

What the heck is that from?

Good thing this isn't a Fox show. Fox is now known in the industry as the most impatient network in all history of television. Cancelling good shows is a Fox specialty: Family Guy, Firefly and the most recent glaring one being Wonderfalls. Which is Ironic when you look at the shows that launched the network, Tracy Ullman, ALien Nation, etc...

Does size matter? Just kidding, but in this case yes, I scaled down the cannons by 25% and rearranged them a little bit, I also added the Heavy PLASER cannons over the wings, though i may stick them under the fuselage. I then added a set of preliminary rocket pods, which I may change and or move around, possibly under the fuselage. Thoughts?

The Pegasus will probably come in around middle to late season two if they keep going the way they are now. Of course now the question is, who will play Commander Kain, who will play Sheeba, what will their Battlestar look like (hopefully more tech advanced then the Galactica), what model vipers will they have onboard, and most important, how did they survive? My thoughts on how it would survive, it was out on pirate hunting patrols towards the edge of colonial space and therefore was unable to recieve its software upgrade along with the rest of the fleet. Believe me this happens a lot, we are still trying to nail down the schedule of one ship we have to perform a software ORDALT on. Of course the Cylons would probably wait until the whole fleet had the software upgrade with their vulnerable lines of code. But, what if the Pegasus was the last hold out, and had it scheduled but had to surge deploy before it could be installed? Or, I would laugh at this and love it, what if the ISEA installing the software had a corrupted programmer and therefore had to purge the program and reinstall the older version? Depending on how they load their software it could be that they realize what was going on and had time to reinstall the old software before getting wiped out. I just hope their explination isn't some corny POS though, and would love to see another model Battlestar and maybe see a few mk5 and mk6 vipers fly off her decks. Of course if they are out pirate hunting during the attack why not join up with the pirates, last hold outs of humanity after all, and the pirates will likely be using old hardware, so we can see some of the intermediate viper designs possibly. Ok I've run on enough,

Opus, it might be possible to have twelves habitable planets in a solar system depending on how their orbits interact, but it is unlikely. Anyway, I believe they refer to it as a star system, which is different then a solar system. A star system is typically defined as all stars within a set distance, about five or ten light years IIRC. So, depending on where in the galaxy they are having twleve habitable planets inside of a ten light years sphere of space is entirely possible depending on how close the different star systems are.

SCHWEET!!!!

DO you mean Option 1, with the two cannons? Please be more descriptive folks.

Option 3:

Option 2:

"Bigger guns, we need Bigger F'ing Guns!!!" Just kidding, but if you think you need bigger guns then these you need help, oh and 2 points to whoever can tell me what movie that's from. Anyway we are a decision time. I have put together three possible configurations for the Mass Drivers on this fighter. Option one is two large six barrel rotary cannon pods, and I do mean big. Option two is four smallers three barrel rotary cannon pods, makes the design a bit more symetric but takes up a lot of space and limits over the shoulde visibility. Option three, burying the cannons in the twin six-barrel cannons in the wings. We could run into some structural issues here, but I can take care of that. Right now I am leaning towards options two or three. Anyone else care to comment? Also yes I realize the design similarity to the Macross GU-11, that may or may not remain, I haven't decided, just a nice little nod at this point. No matter what the pods will be fixed up.

My thoughts for the weapons packs are this: Missile Packs (2x3): The two triple missile packs will stay but will be moved around to find the optimum placement. Rocket Packs (2x70): The rocket packs will be completely redone and I am considering either making them into traditional rocket pods on extended hardpoints, or flush mounting them to the vnetral fuselage. MDCs: I am thinking here of podding the cannons into two tri-barrel rotary cannon pods. THese pods would be attached to hardpoints and could be ejected once empty to allow the fighter to return for Refueling and Rearming (R&R) faster. Plasers: I think I may ditch the large caliber Plaser cannons and instead go for a quartet of wing or chin mounted cannon instead. This would give the Mk1 some self defense capability. I will post pics of what I am thinking later.

I think Kin might be right, no reason to completely reinvent the wheel here. So I have scrapped the full redesign and instead am now going on a design optimization course. To that end, and to make my life easier, I have started redoing the ship, just using faces instead of elliptical cylinders everywhere. In this way it will stay true to the original concept, but will make detailing far easier. Here is the first render of the new concept. Something I am considering is eliminating the aft dorsal engine hump, keeping the ventral hump though, any thoughts? I'm also going to rearrange the weapons a bit and redesign them a bit as well. COmments, thoughts, opinions?

recon buzzard, I will replace the EPCs with sensor pods and the missile hardpoints with a large recon package.

Recon model preview.

buzzard shot

Combat model, very old and dirty one.

preflighting the MSPs

Buzzard

Someone hand me the fork, except for proper squadron markings and adding the recon equipment to the recon model this baby is done.

Very nice, did you color the picture or did you get your hands on the model and make textures?