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    I was looking at the new X-wing and I realized what it is about hte new wings that bugs me. Yes I have some issues with the fact that they didn't improve pilot visibility but the wings are biggest issue here. The way they split halves the chord of the wing and they still placed the same sized laser at the wing tips. If the lasers were shorter it wouldn't bug me as much. However, putting a long cylindrical moment arm out there like that is just begging for a bad wing torsion effects. It's worse then whey they first pit AMRAAMS on F-16 wingtips, and why you still don't see AMRAAMS wingtip mounted on any other platform. Even the F-16 has issues when carrying AMRAAMs out there, G limits, wing torsion stresses, etc... The original X-Wing, even with its flaws always looked solid. By changing the wings like this, making them shorter like that, it makes them appear spindly by comparison.
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    Experimenting with fighter arrangements and a combination of the two armor colors. Will do some kind of outline around the fighters, but all of my early experiments look like crap, IMHO. Will post those later.
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    Latest revision, thoughts?
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    I am working on that for the fighter re-render. I will post some various versions later. I also tried placing a slight gold overlay on the tactical character color scheme and that made them pop more for the cover.
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    It was cool walking the factory floor, you could fit a couple carriers in that place, sheesh. I never saw so many 787s, 777s, 767s and 747s in one place before. You can see the various ways they are built too, very cool. I can see why the place has its own microclimate.
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    Updated cover, some small changes, and the alternate armor color scheme based on the fighters.
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    So Herman's Head animated and in multiple heads then?
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    Eh, I don't live there anymore, sorry other SoCal MWers but get to high ground and let it sink, lol.
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    Latest update, shifted things about a little bit and recolored the characters, the are looking a little more tactical now. I may still go with the blue scheme, but the whole cover has a lot of blue at this point. And the individual characters:
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    hmm, a slightly different take on the westworld concept
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    Check this out, Tenjin 3-D printed life size VF-1 controls, you should see if you can get hold of them for this project. https://www.facebook.com/groups/macrossUSfans/861364377228048/?notif_t=group_comment_reply
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    Guess who gets to visit the Boeing 787 plant on friday.
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    I am loving how well DC is handling their TV properties, they have always seemed to do better on the small screen, when given a movie they tend to try and tell too big a story and it all goes tits up, *cough* man of steel *cough* In some wild fantasy of mine these remain separate from the movies except possibly fitting into the Nolan'verse, since WB/DC has said that the Nolan movies do not play into the new films. Of course I realize that won;t happen since Neeson is not playing Ra' Al-Ghul, le sigh.
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    I'll take that into consideration RL1, but I do plan to make another pass or two on the coloring and shading of the characters, this was mostly a composition pass to check on general colors and configuration. Now I have taken some other suggestions; moved and scaled some stuff around.
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    First mockup of the book 2 cover. Will probably raise up the trio and enlarge them, and group the fighters closer together. Thoughts on the composition?
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    SO who wants to place bets on the ID of Reverse Flash in this universe? I am still going with Dr Wells, I am Harry Wells, HG Wells? He is either reverse flash or a time traveler, possibly even HG Wells himself.
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    One of the reasons that certain sequels work is they either continue a story down a well laid out path or attempt to tell a wholly different story in the same universe as the first. Go to the Alien example: Alien was a sci-fi survival horror with great mood, pacing and an ambiance that still makes me jump sometimes. Aliens was an action flick in the same universe and upped the ante by making it an army verses an army. Both of these worked great. Alien 3 tried to rehash the original Alien but with prisoners fighting a single alien again, and honestly, it didn't work. Alien R was just an unholy mess that even Whedon couldn't save and in a lot of ways became a parody of itself. In the Terminator franchise: T1 was again a sci-fi survival tale, man vs super advanced cyborg, with an emphasis on action rather than suspense. Crud need to go will finish later.
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    Too bad there was no crew onboard
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    Thanks, the sales of the novel have not been as good as I would like, but then I have not been able to do much marketing the last few months, and have almost no budget to do so either. I've gotten most of my sales from Amazon, a little off itunes, none of B&N or the others that I have seen. So book 2 will start out as an amazon exclusive, will consider putting it onto kindle unlimited. What is really hurting sales right now is a lack of reviews. Reviews sell books and without them I am kind of up a creek.
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    T1 was the best terminator film, period. T2 was a fun movie, but a bad sequel, it broke the rules established in the first film. Had they not done the whole "stop judgement day" thing I could have forgiven more of its flaws, in terms of being a sequel. T3 was horribly miscast and ended up more an action comedy then anything else T4 had great potential, showing us the future war, and having a good cast, but the writing and direction (sorry McG is not a good director, Charlie's Angels, bleh, any director that destroys a Shelby Cobra is dead to me) T-G: I dunno, will probably watch it on netflix unless the reviews are just spectacular.
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    The flinching while firing annoys the heck out of me too. The CG Arnold didn't look terrible, but I could excuse those things. What I can't is the idea of stopping Judgement Day, that was the worst part of T2. T1 was a perfect causal loop story and all the sequels have ruined that. Why couldn't they keep the loop intact? Kyle doesn't need to know that Sara was a badass, JohnC could have lied. People always say that T1 had such a bleak ending, but htey forget the part where Reese tells Sara that they won the war, that time travel was Skynet's last gambit, and without him knowing, that sending Reese back was part of the loop that allowed that to happen. Sara's surviving and getting pregnant is what allows the war to be won.
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    So bets on who will play Amanda Waller? Will they go with the old school, fat oprah route, or the new 52 skinny b!itch?
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    Thanks to Greg Lane for providing the character lineart for the next Spiral War Book, now I am working on the coloring and shading. I wish I was better at this and had more time to work on it. Any tips would be well appreciated. Blazer gets the cover again: This time Chris gets some cover love, and is actually dressed: And of course Gokhead, a Drashig with reverse hinged knees: oops had to fix the link ANd the first test of the trio together:
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    For an immediate future look the man-amps were fine. My biggest beef is that with exception of what, one or two guys, none of them were suits with armor. Those were not mobile suits or power armors, but straight up man-amps. COngrats WMC, any hints as to what movie, has it even been announced yet?
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