Knight26

Interesting choice for the doctor, I just hope he is more like the Tom Baker version of the doctor.

Mine is a little over halfway there, won't be done for another hour, but I am off to bed soon so will leave it open all night.

Ok, the anti-matter cannon is completed, including a new barrel, which actually has multiple barrels, they all fire at once though to make sure that the anti-matter does not react prematurely. The mechanism fully opens and closes and all the panels are on as well as a few more vents, and interface ports. I look forward to your comments. BTW the lighting is bad because I did this at work, I will make a render later with it attached to the rest of the fighter and hopefully get the barrel lights to work, they are not cooperating. Also if by 600 views there are no more comments I will stop posting updates until the end when I post the final WIP pretexture. Oh and those little holes on the side of the main unit right around the pivot joint, those are where the maintenance crews insert their manual hand cranks.

I'm debating the same thing Graham, maybe when I go to costco tomorrow.

Looks good but I think a more "human" face would look better then the anime face, but still very nice. BTW what software package are you using?

Jeez Gray, horny much? I really admire your skill man.

Very nice, the pilot looks excellent, what software are you using?

ACtually I knew a guy who used to do things like that every year: Used tampons, pads, condoms, diaphrams, dildos, etc...

Great work DB, can't wait to see the finished product.

I believe the primary reasons behind the navy's decision to go with the F-4 above the SUper Crusader were: 1) Twin engine for better survivability 2) Two man crew, which was considered essential, and was, for using the Sparrow and other medium to long range ordnance 3) Looks, the Super Gator was not a pretty plane, almost made the PHantom pretty 4) Carrying capacity, the super gator did not have the carrying capability, IIRC, of the phantom 5) Concerns about the ventral fins striking the carrier deck 6) The navy, and all US fighter forces in general, were trying to get away from the gun fighters and wanted strictly missile birds, until that proved a bad idea, so an interceptor based off of a gunfighter would not have been acceptable to the admirality.

is that 19 variable?

"Open wide and say ah" Sorry for the lack of updates, was a budy weekend, I finished the wing stubs and fins but there is not much to see there so I will wait until later to show them. I did do significant work today on the anti-matter cannon though. I figured out the openning mechanism and modelled the forward arms of the weapon. The arms are actually both the same piece just revolved 180 degrees, in that way they are interchangeable, nice feature I think. Well it seems that interest in this one has peatered off somewhat so if there is no further interest I will hold off on updates until the end and just show the finish product. Well I hope you all like this and look forward to your comments.

Very cool

Very nice, as for surface details, man that will be a tough one, no idea how to help you there, sorry, love to see what you do though.

Actually I believe that Kawamori has stated that Reaction weapons are nuclear in their warheads but because of the general dislike of almost all things nuclear in Japan, gee wonder why, they have always refered to them as reaction weapons in macross.

Barb Wire (1996) [Never saw it looked like garbage, Pam Anderson makes me ill] Batman Returns (1992) [Could have been better, but not terrible] Batman Forever (1995) [Done way too over the top, had potential with a good cast but way too overdone.] Batman & Robin (1997) [Terrrible, complete garbage] Blade (1998) [i actually liked it, may nto have been a great adaptation but I liked it.] Blade II (2002) [see Above] Blade Trinity (2005) [Haven't seen yet, but will] Brenda Starr (1989) [Never heard of it] Captain America (1978) [it was made in the 70's of course it was a bad superhero movie] Captain America (1992) [Yes very bad] Catwoman (2004) [Never saw it have no intent to, looked carp] The Crow: City of Angels (1996) [The original was ok, but the sequels never saw all lookd bad] The Crow: Salvation (2000) [see above] The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2004) [see above] Daredevil (2002) [Very bad, totally miscast] Elektra (2005) [No interest] The Fantastic Four (1994) [This actually was released, I saw a really laughable trailer but that was it] The Hulk (2003) [Never saw, no intent to either] Mystery Men (1999) [i thought it was funny] Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998) [Ok David Hasslehoff as Nick Fury the coolest sercret agent since James Bond, do I have to go on about what else makes it terrible?] The Phantom (1996) [i liked it, guily pleasure I know] Popeye (1980) [Loved it as a kid, haven't seen it in so long I have no idea how it was anymore.] The Punisher (1989) [Guilty pleasure of mine, I liked it] The Punisher (2004) [Haven't seen it yet, haven't had a chance] The Shadow (1994) [Wasn't terrible, but from what Grandpa says it was pretty close to what the character was supposed to be.] Spawn (1997) [it was fun, but again horribly miscast in several places, could have been much better.] Steel (1997) [shaq tries to act, sorry but no thanks] Supergirl (1984) [Yes very bad] Superman III (1983) [pretty bad if memory serves] Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987) [see above] Tank Girl (1995) [fun movie, but no idea how well it was adapted] X-Men (2000) [i liked it, with a bigger budget could have been even better] X2: X-Men United (2003) [again I liked it but somebody please feed Famke she looked horrible in this one]

Most of the gulf war vets who got sick were near where there were orders to blow up Saddam's old ammunition bunkers, which were filled with chemical and bio weapons. That crap then got thrown into the air and precipitated down onto our troops, or they breathed it in, ingested it, etc... That is what caused the later illnesses, not the handling of DU rounds.

Sweet A-10b NA/AW, I want screenies of that baby.

"Climb Aboard, We're expecting you, the gun boat...." Sorry i couldn't resist, anyway the full undercarriage, including interior of the gear wells are in as are the boarding ladders, one on each side. I will start on the wing stubs and fins next and work my way in and forward, not sure why I go that way but what the heck.

that was cool, probably just a lifting body flying wing with all those greeblies stuck on. The handle probably also has control or lifting surfaces, all in all very cool to see.

It can't be the gun...not that it is a death ray or anything. But back in the late 80s/early 90s A-10s were in fact offered to Turkey and South Korea. Both got the F-16 instead but yeah the A-10 was export marketed. That was when the Air Force brass (fragging morons) were doing everything they could to ditcht he A-10. The export version would have had the gun removed though as the gun cooling system is still consider classified, plus even if they had been sold it with the gun they would not have been sold the DU ammo. The countries would have had to have bought it from other vendors, beside the US is one of the only countries to use DU ammo.

Congress won't allow A-10s to be sold outside the US armed forces, mostly due to the gun and becuase they are no longer in production, Fairchild-Republic, the company that made them is out of business.

Also I was thinking about it on the way home and I decided to make a number of varients for this design: 1) The standard varient, the one seen here. 2) The Gun boat varient, mirroring the right side to the left giving two A/M cannons, and the torpedoes but no missiles. 3) The missile boat varient, mirroring the left side and giving it two missile packs. 4) The ECM varient, strip off all the weapons except for a couple missile packs for defense and pack it full of ECM gear, this one would be a four seater. 5) The shuttle varient, similar to the ECM varient possibly with additional personnel carrying pods in place of the main weapons pods.

As you can see the nose gear is the standard Splicer nose gear I have been using, what can I say, I like it. The mains are all new, based on one of the concepts I rejected for the S-5000s undercarriage. The fold down and rotate the pad since they are otherwise angled. I think i might have made them a tad too big as they come close to impinging on the engine mounting pylons, so I moved the pylons a little to compensate. So, any comments?

Ok, the landing gear are in, one more feature, the boarding ladders, and I can start the detailing process. Of course with the addition of the landing gears that heralds the return of our flight test crew to start the inspection process and Graham's favorite rendering trick the mirrorplane. Sorry Graham I know you hate it but its a nice way to show off the top and bottom in one shot. Onto the pics.