Knight26

Hanks is not my first choice either, I liked the book, and hanks is a good actor don't get me wrong but he really doesn't fit the role in my eyes. Ed norton definitely seems more the part or, man I can't remember the actors name, oh well.

That model while nice really doesn;t do that design justice, kind of like the Yammie YF-19 only more so.

The thanksgiving date I got off a poster I think, but I've heard rumor that the release date keeps moving back and forth. The production standards and quality on the original may seem crude by todays standards but the story is still great, sure there is not a lot of ethnic diversity, or any women, but that didn't matter, it would not have added anything to the story. The bandit attack seem sout of place to me, plus it ought to be interesting to see how they handle the relationship between Dorfman and the pilot. In the original it was tense because it was suppossed to be in the 50s, early sixties at the latest and the pilot was a WW2 vet, so he had a dislike of germans. There is no way they can really do that now with a modern movie, unless they made Dorfman Arab or Russian, and even then it would be doubtful. Like I said before I really hope it will be good, but am trying not to get my hopes up as it may be a letdown.

Ok, I finished the forward fuselage and cockpit exterior tonight, I will start on the anti-matter cannon tommorrow after work and then move onto the missile pod before going to the engines. I will wrap it up with the easy stuff, the stub wings, canards and verticals, as well as the engine mounts, landing, gear, weapons, etc... The weapons are just a matter of converting the textures from other models. Well let me know what you think. Oh yes and the one picture is before I did the cockpit.

Man Alpha could you find a worse pic of the Movie VF-1A head? Check the lineart, or the pic of the cannon fodder that gets nailed outside the observation bubble in the final battle.

I started texturing this bad boy and except for some clean up, especially on the sides of the torpedo packs, I have finished the aft fuselage. I will start on the forward fuselage later and then move onto the anti-matter cannon and stub wings before tackling what should be the very hard to do, engines and missile pod. Let me know what you think.

What do you mean you were doubtful?

I really want it to be good, FotP is one of my all time favorite movies, a total aero engr's wet dream. I want this to be good so bad, it comes out around thanksgiving I think, so when I go home my Dad and I will go see it. If my nephew is there I will make him watch the original first, maybe. The thing I know I will be disapointed by in this one, is that I am sure they did not resurrect the original phoenix, and I'll bet they did not even build their own, just a static prop and a CG bird. The Phoenix in the original movie actually flew, they built two of them, one crashed, killing the pilot, but the other flew just fine.

last one, now to start on the 3000.

flight test crew

Ok, the texturing is finished, hope you all like it.

Heidi Klum is like a fine wine, she is getting so much better with age.

Looking nice Gammera but can you crank up the anti-aliasing on your renderer?

Do door knobs qualify? I can't wait for people to crack Verizon DSL jokes once Ep 3 plays in theaters... huh?

Congrats man, hopefully his older sibling Optimus and the Valk's don;t get jealous of all the attention he gets.

Yeah but Agent One would hit anything with an open orifice, lol.

Not sure if there is still interest but here is the latest update. I couldn't do a rotational texture on the engines like I did the guns last time, just too much going on on them and too much of a pain figuring out all the angles. So I went to the old method, there were some breakdowns but for the most part I think they came out well. One thing, the textures look a little blurred in some areas so I may fix that later. Man I looked at the file size since I made the modifications, dang, 195MB for the fully paneled/textured version, I need to figure out where that is coming from and try to decrease that. Anyway here are the pictures.

Ok, I have started the texturing on this beast. Hoepfully tomorrow I will get the engines done, but that will be a pain to do no matter how I approach it. Let me know what you think?

Very nice but you need some VF-1s and a 19 in there.

Portman is an anorexis little skank.

Vader mus tbe thinking, "Thank God I ditched that little skank on Naboo, now to use the dark side to get me this hotty."

Holy shreg I had a sex change: <a href="http://www.liquidgeneration.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.liquidgeneration.com/quiz/images/ellen_ripley.jpg" border="0"></a> Couldn't they at least have made me hicks?

I think we have all toyed around with the concept, but I doubt it would happen. If it did happen though I think people would want to see the missing two years between the final battle with Boldolza and the rebuilding effort on Earth. Unfortunately that can definitely never happen. If, big if, we could find enough dedicated and talented fans to do it I'm sure it could be done, but would be very hard and expensive.

Very Nice, I like it alot, the next one looks hilarous. One thing, since they are VF-1D girls, shouldn't it be two girls per costume, lol, jk.

I know ywhere you are coming from Lynx, but it only has to be mentioned once or twice, but people are all but harping on it. I will admit that even I was guilty at first of calling some B5 fighters star wars rips, but as I watched it i quickly dropped that thought. Back then I was still hardcore in SW, I have since learned better, lol.