Knight26

I will probably keep the engine nacelles, but have been considering beefing up the connecting arms, giving a much more solid connection to the hull. If you look at the old thread you will see that those are basically the last hold out of the old design, guess they are goners now. Besides, its a carrier not really designed to be pulling hard Gees.

lol, I;m contemplating signing up my sister and a few girls I used to date, lol. Nah, I'm evil, just not that evil.

Not sure I know what you mean Ewilen, its just a standard perspective shot using a 25mm camera lense.

Yes yes something of mix between the two, this is one of my few through deck carriers, most have seperate launch and landing areas that are not immediately connected. Aargh, I keep forgetting to update the registry template, need to fix that, thanks for point that out, bugger. ANy comments on the designs though?

Here's a nice little render I did just for kicks, a Tenrack, two Mosquitoes and a pair of Solaars Mk-3 launching off the redesigned mitchell. The redone Brekhov came out pretty nice but needs something in my opinion, will post pics tomorrow. THe redesigned GF tactical dropship is coming along nicely too but needs a lot of detailing work, mostly it needs an interior and doors at this point. ANyway here is the pic:

Next up the five view registry shot:

Next up the Tenrack bomber. THis one was not a full up redesign but instead was more of a tweaking of the old design to make it look far better IMHO. I haven't textured it yet but really I don;t think it needs it really at this point. I still need to add more details to the landing gears and the landing gear wells, as well as the bombbay, buy the landing gear and the doors are all there. I am also going to redo the cockpit interior. Right now my biggest concern with the bomber is not its design but its name, Tenrack has never been a good name and now no longer even fits as the redesign added two more torpedo mounts. So any suggestions right now I am leaning towards Valkyrie or Vampire.

Next up the five view registry shot, as always any comments/critiques are welcome, oh and after I made these renders I changed to a different texture, no pics of that yet, oops:

SOme of you may remember this thread from a few months back before I went underway on the USS Reagan for a couple weeks. Well I finally got around to doing some of those redesigns. I will post more pics of the changes and new designs later but my home internet connection is down right now until I get my new DSL hookup. I have pictures of two of the redesigns that I feel came out really well. First off the new Mitchell Class Light/Escort carrier. Its now about twice the size and mass off the original design and IMHO looks a hundred times better. I may do some more work on this one to add details and such, which all of my designs need really. ANyway a few hardcore BSG fans may recognize the overall configuration. I drew insipration for this design from Ralph McQuarries original BSG design concept. I thought it was such a cool design and perfect for a small carrier design. First shot is my customary four view: Edit: Added a link to the original concept I drew inspiration from.

I liked that 90's batman series, very gritty, very dark knight, and approaching the frank miller sytle, a little bit. As it progressed it got darker and darker, which was good, but I think that turned some people off. I like that dark dreary look, really shows what Batman was suppossed to be like, no all bright and colorful like super man. Give me the bat any day over the flying alien, at least he uses his brain to solve mysteriesm not just his super powers.

COngrats man, she's a doll.

MMM Linda Carter as wonder woman, no current actress could play that part as well as her. Come to me my 70's super hero amazon.

Happy Birthday Neil, will need to tip one later in his honor.

Give me a 2 seater any day. I think the main problem with making a 2 seat 1:48 is making it perfect transformable. THe heat shied and swing bar design currently in use will have to be revamped in order to allow for the transformation because of the added length.

There's your problem then, heightwise, the average zentraedi is only about 40 ft tall. Lengthen the thighs a little and you might get a 1:48 zentradei

Interesting but the legs look way too short, especially the thighs, make it look more apelike in proportion.

THis post needs pictures, you have to be a member fo the other site to view whatever pics you have up there.

Nice job, but its takes more then navy blue with yellow markings to make a plane a blue angel. Most if not all Angels arifract have had a yellow arrow on their underside. IMHO the angels color scheme would be a pain to reproduce on the valk simply because of the variable bits.

Very Nice Man, what altitude did it reach?

How much did that set you back?

I think its Minmei from the last episode, illuminated in some weapons flash, at least from her hair it looks like something late in the series.

Thanks DH, sorry I did not clarify that before. RAM (Rolling Airframe Missile) is based off of the Sidewinder and stinger missiles and fires out of a launcher that borrows elements from Phalanx, Trident, and a few other systems. THe biggest failing of Phalanx is its high fire rate, becuase it makes it have only enough ammo for 5-6 shots. Were it more accurate that would not be a problem, but Phalanx works by putting out a hail of ammo such that one of the rounds will hit the incoming missile. NATO Launcher, like DH said is the NATO Sea Sparrow Launcher, a development off the of the old BPDMS and AIM-7 Sparrow missile for use in ship defense, it is a long to mid range ship defender. It carries eight rounds per launcher and typically fires one or two rounds per target. RAM has 21 rounds per launcher and typically fires two rounds at each target, just in case. AN interesting little side note, a while back Nanashi posted an info sheet on something labelled the missile phalanx on the Prometheous. When you really get down to it RAM is a missile based Phalanx weapons system instead of a gun based, kind of funny, especially since the picture he showed also looked a little like a RAM Launcher. What makes this doubly interesting is that RAM had only started development and the launcher design was no where near set at that point.

Most of them are too stupid to know about it, plus many are not going to tungston rounds.

Graham- Most Carriers, have 4 Phalanx guns and 2 or 4 Nato Launchers. RAM typically replaces one Phalanx and one NATO launcher. The Reagan is solely a NATO/RAM ship, plus the fifty cals. All weapons have interlocking fields of fire, and the missile systems have shoot around the corner capability. Goalkeeper is not going onto any US ship, Goalkeeper right now is strictly a european weapon system, americans have too much invested in th 20mm Vulcan to go away from it at this time. Phalanx typically fires a Deplete Uraniam Sabot round, shreds missiles nicely. When dealing with ASMs (Anti Ship Missiles) which are usually seaskimmers it does not take much to knock them out of the sky. SOmething people need to realize is that missiles only rarely strike its target they just get within kill range, explode and pepper the target with shrapnel, tearing it apart, even aircraft. When dealing with Seaskimming missiles that are inbound at Mach 2 plus typically it does not take much force to knock them into the water. Even diving targets just need to get a glancing blow that damages their control surfaces to send them tumbling out of control. I've grown up around missiles so I know alot things that most people don't realize. Also, of all the test firings I have been witnessed or seen the results of for RAM have only had about a dozen rounds that did not make a skin to skin hit of the target.

Sorry DH, I must have missed that post, read the thread right after I woke up from partying last night with old friends. They will never find the crew members of that Dhow, they're chum. They would have been pulled under the carrier and then caught up in the screws. I'm surprised anyone even noticed they hit somehting, though the sound of hitting the boat was probably pretty noticable when it happened. Also like I said before, if it was a dark moonless night, and the dhow had no lights on I doubt anyone would have seen it. There are watchstanders who stand at the bow of the ship to look for small boat threats, but if the Dhow had its sails pulled and and there were no lights then they probably did not see it until it was too late. So in typical naby fashion the two poor shmucks taking watch at the time will likely be the one who get in trouble and get court martialed. Its sad but true but the little guy will get screwed long before anyone officer, except maybe the OOD, who will get a slap on the wrist.