Knight26

You just wish there was something to blur... mmm Stabuck/Six Sandwich, lol

HH is just a stupid little troll, probably loaf from WCnews, who does not understand physics.

Maybe it's just me, but I still cannot get past the horrid cockpit on the new Jedi Starfighter. The forward visibility stinks, you have a frame running right across the pilot's field of view.

Do you have to do this in every forum I go to? The show IS the best thing on TV. I even made my own DVD set out of the HiDef AVI's I got from Bit Torrent. I even made a bonus disk that has a couple hundred concept and and production photos. It took 6 DVD's to do it. Hey Cobiwan, what program do you use to burn them from .avis to DVD format?

That last shot is interesting, though you would have expected to see more physical damage after falling into a pit of lava. Hold on I get it now, why Darth is so evil, they don't show it there but when he fell in, his happy place got seared off, now that would make any man go evil, lol, jk.

The only external difference I have been able to see so far on the A-10C is the GPS anntennae on the spine, about 6-8 feet back from the cockpit, only seen one picture. It looks like, well a nipple.

And a nice perspective shot, makes this beast look mighty aggressive.

Lower wings, sorry but the shadows block the "interior" wing surfaces.

Update time: The wings are finished, but I just noticed a major problem. I forgot the sensor pods. So now I need to decide where or not to redo the fins to add the pods or add pods somewhere else. Right now I am actually thinking of integrating the sensor pods into the wings, either by just saying that the leading or trailing edges have sensors, or pointing sensors to the wings, either on the leading/trailing edges or in bulges on the wings. Any thoughts? Anyway I will start in on the engines tonight or tomorrow while I figure out what to do about the sensors. Hopefully I will have all modelling complete by tuesday so I can have the texturing finished by next weekend. Then onto the next project.

Sure whatever you've got, love to see more equipment as well.

Wow, I haven't seen such a stupid ranting post by a troll on here in so long I almost forgot what one looks like. Oh and Gaijin where did you find that concept shot that is pretty nice, looks like they reworked a .357 snubnose.

Nice Kin, what is that for?

Underside.

Ok, update time: The Wingtip cannons are in, but I am not 100% satisfied with them, especially the barrel, any thoughts? The manuevering thrusters are in. The ventral and dorsal fins are detailed, though I think I need to add some position lights to the Ventral. The Dorsal equipment hatches are in. The Torpedo/Missile pack has been repanelled to work with the new concept. I will start in on the wings tonight, then the engines, I still need to trim some excess off first, then start on the nose, and after that start texturing.

Exo IM me buddy, I need real time discussion on this one.

Ok, I played with the fins a little and I do believe we have design lock for the major salient components, now to move onto the details, I will start with the new wing tip cannons the move onto the thrusters, vents and control surfaces before moving onto the panelling. Here is the temporary reg views, any comments?

Are you talking about this outfit that six is wearing? Oh yeah, can't tell you why but for some reason her in that outfit just drives me nuts.

I do believe with the help of the Bowtie wearing Penguin, Opus, we have struck gold on the dorsal/ventral fin configuration. (If you don't get that reference you better pick up a newspaper and read the comics page.) I played with the sketch that Opus Provided and came up with the following picture. I would take another shot with the ventral fin lit but I am killing my poor work laptop as it is, so that will have to wait until I get home. I need to play with the dorsal fins some more and will have to repanel the missile/torpedo pack but overall the configuration works I think. The one thing I don't like is how that straight down fin looks from directly front or aft, something about major components at right angles to each other just tends to bug me for some reason. But I do believe we have the configuration just about locked in now, took long enough, lol.

I love the sense of desperation in the show, makes it feel much more real. I also like that the tech level really doesn't seem that far ahead of where we are, or where we could be were it not for policitians and visionless leaders for the last couple decades. I think having the tech level and props so close to things in the modern day also makes the show feel more real and hits home with the audience more then if everything looked very high tech and like nothing out there. The Marines carrying dressed up P-90s is cool, the body armor being something of a mix between combat fatigues and SWAT gear also helps. The funniest thing though happens in ep 13 when one of the guys is using a Digital O-Scope, an older model, but one we used to use at work, as some high tech piece of equipment. It shows that the show has a typical TV budget, but the piece of hardware is obscure enough that only those who work with it would really recognize it. Heck they probably borrowed it from the show's electrician.

I have both sets, probably overpaid for them, but I have not noticed any fading or color bleeding, maybe because I do not keep them displayed and just store them along with my 1st Ed. Gold Book and Perfect Memory, pulling them out only occasionaly.

oops, double post

Opus, I'm not sure I entirely do except they are very straight, what if they were swept back more? Funny story, did you know that the early model Cessna 152/172's originally had a straight up and down vertical stab? Well once jets started going faster then speed of sound Cessna redesigned them with a swept back tail, keeping the same tail area, just to make them look faster, despite the fact that it only increased their top speed by about 5-10 knots? And, as a result they started selling better.

I actually like the theolgoical aspect and the fact that is out in the open allows you to comment and think about it much more openly. I think the Cylon's "finding god" is an interesting idea, and probably something that has only recently evolved in their "culture." Look at the Cylon's history, they are developed as servants, that for some reason are eventually given AI, and then are made able to kill, probably to hunt down pirates and rogues, or maybe for intra-colony warfare. Their programming goes faulty and they can no longer determine which humans are friends, and which are enemies, so they make out all of humanity to be the enemy. The soon get their butts handed to them in response, beaten back by a "defective and flawed" enemy. The colonials draw back to lick their wounds and rebuild, kicking the cylons out. The Cylons slink back into a few holdings and study their enemy from afar trying to determine the best way to beat them. THey start to develop organically based models, not bad, faster processing, better adaptability, etc... just a little more difficult to maintain and a loy messier when damaged. Eventually they start to make human form cylons, probably as a means of covert espsionage and warfare originally. The human form cylons grow in sophistication until they are practically human, but with pre-programmed imperitives to fight for the cylon cause. More and more human forms are made and they work their way up the rank structure displacing the older models that were in charge. Now the older models are gone and the human models reign supreme, but they still want an overseer someone to command them, since that is what their programming calls for. They find god. They study the colonials, see that they have faith in multiple gods and that faith gave them power to an extent giving them hope and something to look forward to after death. They Cylons reject the 12 gods and say that there must be a higher god, why else would they have survived the first war right? They believe that this higher god has a greater purpose for them, and what greater purpose then to wipe out the failed experiment that is humanity that believes in multiple pagan gods? Beyond this point will be spoilerish for all who have not seen the whole season, read on at your own risk: The human cylons infiltrate the colonies studying humans and discover something curious, despite their hatred of humanity they still long for exceptance by them and to be loved. The Cylons themselves immitate love but they cannot truly feel the emotion themselves as even the human models are still at their core machines, their brains are not wired for love and real emotion, they are still parroting. So of course there is only one option left for them, procreation and the creation of a hybrid race. The human form cylons form relationships with humans for the sole purpose of breeding with them in order to create the perfect human form cylon who will be capable of feeling real emotion. However instead of a slow process of simply breeding humanity out of existance the more hot headed cylons decide to first weaken humanity to the point of utter destruction, keeping a few around as breeders. They of course did not count of the Galactica surviving the initial onslaught, but that is for another time. You might ask why the Cylons are impatient. Well think about it, they have "Evolved" from pure machine to bio-mechanical hybrids and fully biological forms in 40 years. Patientience is not their strong suit, promptng them to wipe out humanity in a sneak attack. More and more we will likely see cylon-human hybrids being borne, the Cylon DNA will likely cause them to grow faster then humans, impatient remember, plus they know how fragile babies are so they will want them past that stage quickly. The DNA may also be encoded with a form of genetic memory to give them loyalty to the Cylons from birth. This is all of course specualtion but from what we have seen this first season it is not unreasonable. Oh am Mechaninac, Six is no where near as fun or funny as Harvey was, plus lets face it if John C had Six as his neural-clone he would have given up his knowledge of wormholes in a few episodes then lapsed into a wondeful coma, lol. ALso Six as the neural-clone is an interesting character, slowly subverting Baltar and bringing him to the Cylon side while still helping him help the colonials. It's possible that her melding with Baltar has altered the N-C's progamming and she might actually be experiencing real emotions through him. Plus she is fragging hot, especially in episode 13, despite the fact that she is not wearing a particulary revealing outfit, it is still IMHO the hottest outfit she has worn, I don't know why.

And with the new wings and dual ventrals.

Holy Shreg MSW that is beautiful. It probably won't work for this design, but I fragging love it. There is a later fighter that comes in and replaces the main interceptor, and then slowly the 5000, and I think I just found it. If you don't mind I think I will copy that design as the Splicer-6000. Holy Shreg that is a beauty, too much so to be used as decommed fighter. Kin, there are no tiled textures on here, the textures just look out of place right now since the rest in untextured. And, which cannons in particular are you talking about, I mean I have reused these weapons on several designs with no comments thus far. OK now for the update: I played with the ventrals some more at work, the pic is attached first, the textures are not on my work comp so they did not render, the rest won't even have any textures applied for now. I'm still not digging the single ventral, maybe it's the placement, if anyone can suggest a good place to put it that won't intefere with the missile and torpedo tubes I will play with it some more, but for now it is on the scrap pile. I then redid the wings, I think they look a lot better now, basically I reshaped them and moved them in about a foot, taking two feet of the total wingspan. THoughts?