Knight26

Baby Got Back: Finished the Ventral hump, you might be able to make out a couple more nods to the VF-1 in the panel lining, anyone guess what they are?

Got some tail: The tail planes are finished, including a couple extra antennae, position and formation lights.

very cool

The red eye lense on the Kakizaki looks evil, I like it.

Nice pic Exo, a little overdone on the motion blur but not bad.

Last pic for now, tomorrow I will do the empanage planes, and start on the dorsal and ventral surfaces. I am so not looking forward to starting on the engines and cockpit. Before I start on the cockpit though i am going to experiment with the canopy, also with the main landing gears, find a way to extend them and angle them out, without cheating.

Now the wing, the panel lines show up best from these angles.

Update time: Finished building up the missile packs yesterday, that will be the first pic. Today I panelled the wings, including adding control surfaces and access panels. Here are the pics.

Man this looks too cool for school, who thinks the monster is going to either: 1) blast the Aphos? 2) blast Nora? 3) blast Ivan? (sory I can't remember if that is the right name) 4) step on Mao? lol

Congrats man, now if only the rest of us could be so lucky.

Dude, gen 1 monster, sweet.

Man the things people do while imbibing tainted Yoshinol.

Ok, busy day at work so I couldn't work on the model, lol. ANyway the wingtip bio cannon is finished along with the remodeled wingtip itself, which has a de-grav generator on the underside. I appreciate any comments on the design, especially the colors.

I said all, but really I would just want the high detail and 2-seaters. If you need a valk to experiment on, provided it gets modded for me I will donate one of mine.

Interesting, the show wasn't half bad, not as good as the book but a damn sight better then the horrid movie. Still, I would have prefered power armor that looked more like the one in the anime version, at least then they would have looked like apes.

update: New PLASER Cannon and Boarding ladder are in.

Plasma LASER, aks PLASER Cannon updated. I added many things to it that it needed, heat sinks, emergency vents, reserve plasma tanks, mounting nuts, quick release latches, etc... C&C are welcome. I should mount it tonight and also model the boarding ladder, I have design in mind, I just need the model to make sure it will fit. Oh yes, it also an 8 barrel gatling weapon, thought I would mention that.

I am strictly a GI Joe Comics continuity guy, the cartoons screw it all up.

I may get it, looks very good, but I am still waiting for the last Medal of Honor Expansion to hit the PC.

*crosses fingers* Rogue Squadron TV show, oh please a Rogue Squadron TV show is all I ask.

Not really an update, just a joke picture. Looks like Grunt isn't pleased to have me in his seat, lol.

Good comments Opus and in reply. I will have to put up a pic of the underside of the "skids" They all have de-grav generators in them, self powered or powered from the fighter that basically make the fighter float about 1/4" above the surface of a 1G planet when activated, thus eliminating the need for wheels. The canopy is still not final and I may make some modification, even debating multipiece canopy instead of a one piece like now. It may become something like the original canopy again, I just need to figure out the whole shape and everything. As to crew access I am considering a fold down ladder similar to an F-14 then a walk strip on the "canard." Man this beast is getting complex, lol. Yeah Shin those are old buddies of mine I used to work, some of my best friends. I agree AUTOCAD isn't the best modeler, but I like it and it gets the job done. Also, little know fact but the renderer is the same as the old 3DS renderer, maybe two or three releases behind the 3DS renderer.

A quick shot of the first test pilot crew with the design to date, the pilot will by buddy Peter C. "Rambler" Hantelman, marine corps aviator, certified flight instructor, Instrument... (I'd go on but his full intro if a full paragraph, hense the callsign). And the WSO is Phillip "Grunt" Grissom.

Right Rear quarter:

Update time: I attached the redone energy cannon, namewithheld of security purposes, lol. I also installed the overhead docking mounts, the latching mounts may look familiar, the small indentations are the umblical hook ups. I then changed the left wingtip, I may or may not keep it that way, any thoughts? Basically it is that way just to make it easier to redesign that wingtip bio cannon mount, the angled one is a pain. C&C are welcome.