Knight26

Ok, it's off to the publishers, went over the page count a little but no big deal. I don't know why but after I sent it off this time I felt more nervous then after the initial send off. Infact after the initial send off I felt great, like a big weight was lifted off my shoulders. This time I got butterflies afterwards. Well, I guess it's back to waiting have to see what they think of the next pages and wait to hear back from the others. Wish me luck.

Very Interesting.

What plane has reversable controls? Last I checked all fighters are laid out the same, throttle on the left (thinking hand), stick in the mid or right side (action hand). I have never known any southpaw pilot to have that much difficulty using the right handed control scheme. However, when flying a plane like a Cessna right handed people, like me, have a hard time transitioning to having the throttle on the right. It is something you get past though, and after a few flights are fine with it. I've actually known a few southpaws who had the same problem I did transitioning to the Cessna, it's just a backwards scheme to waht you are used to.

Well, it wasn't scotch but SuperO and I had a couple hefeweizens last night to celebrate, and some fresh brewed off the tap root beer, good night.

It's Sara, what do I win?

Hey Everyone just wanted to share a little news with you. I recieved the following e-mail from one of the publishers I sent my manuscript to: Needless to say I am to totally stoked it isn't funny. Wish me luck all, maybe we'll see my book on the shelves in not too long, and my designs gracing the covers.

The pilot is very close to 1:48 scale, I had some posts about this before, right around the time of the Con sicne I had stuffed my pencil sharpener pilot into my 1:48. If the pilot is 1:48 scale he comes out to around 6'6" if I remember correctly, need to find the old thread. For it to be Hikaru it is around 1:43 scale I think. Like I said find the old post either here or on the old forums and all the calcs are there.

Ok here's a brain teaser for you, is there any kind of adapter plug out there that would allow you to plug a PC gamepad or joystick (standard connection or USB) into a PS2? I just think it would ten bars past cool if I could use my Saitek X-36 HOTAS on a console flight sim, like the new Macross game.

My bad Fulcy, and I actually knew that, it was more for the sake of folks who don't have any material science background. I should have rephrased it as, will it be of a hard resin, or a more rubbery flexible grade? How's that?

Rohby, what material are you casting it out of, resin or rubber? If you can post it out of rubber that might be better so that people can put them in the cockpit of their valks, like I did.

If you get a laptop from the store, get it from Circuit City, not Best Buy. It might cost a little more but the service department is heck of a lot better. And, get the extended warranty, I know from experience that this is a good idea. Best Buy has really crappy service work, they always ship it out someplace else and it can take up to a month to get it back. Circuit City's for the most part do it all in house, only send them out when they are in super bad shape. But, if you get the extended warranty it can die the day before the warranty is up and as long as you bring it in they will likely replace it, if it is no longer worth saving. Trust me on this, happened to me once, two days before the warranty was up my computer fell off my bike while ont he way to school and was severely damaged, got a brand new model right off the line as a replacement, for no cost.

Two Corvettes on the upper pad, still need to name both these classes. At this point I'm thinking of naming them after either anime characters or creators, any suggestions?

Stern shot.

Bow Shot, big beam cannon array.

Another new Yamato shipyard ship. This time a corvette/Gunship. It's armed with four single gun HyperPLASERS, 14 dual gun anti-fighter turrets, 10 torpedo launchers, and an advanced bow mounted beam cannon design. The beam cannon is unique to this class and is extremely powerful, but causes a massive energy drain during prolonged use. These corvettes are used mainly to escort the larger Battleships, two can dock to each of the Battleships extrenal landing/docking pads. More can then dock to other docking ports near the flight decks. The ship is based off of old submarine designs. I think it came out pretty nifty myself, may add some anntenna and such later, what do you think?

The pilot doesn't go in, you get to help make him, the cockpit expands to fit the newly developed pilot.

I can think of worse ways to go.

sweet man, ought to be pretty cool to see

And now for something completely different, three examples of the new textures I've put onto my Splicer 1000s. Three models shown here, from left to right, recon, fighter, trainer.

Chase camera view, them's some big engines.

The Captain's view, impressive amount of firepower eh?

Ok, they're hard to see, but the two lower brudges are visible in this shot.

Next One

Finished, well not really, need to add some details, but will back burner for a while. I also did not add the smaller defense turrets right now. The reason being, I did a test fit and well, i couldn't see them unless I zoomed way in. They are pretty small in comparison to the rest of that behemoth. So I've decided to say that they are retractable, and then when I make a shot that needs them I will insert them. I know its lazy, but when I added them the model size got huge and my computer did not appreciate it, lol. Anyway here are the pics.

Sounds cool Cobywan. As for building them myself, my modeling skills are no where near good enough, in my opinion, plus limited building space.