Knight26

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.

Looks interesting and for once SMG doesn't look totally annorexic, she actually looks hot again.

No shin that would require some massive rengineering to accomplish, the engine replacement for one thing would be a nightmare, the F-8 IIRC uses a much longer and smaller diameter engine then the F-110, which is shorter but fatter. Remaking the wing might be possible but then again the change in mass would throw off the CG something fierce and there would have to be changes made. In order to give it AMRAAM capabilities, well that would require completely replacing the whole avionics suite including a new radar. All in all you would no longer have an F-8 when you were done, better idea would be to design up a whole new plane around the F-110 using the F-8 as a starting point, make a more modern day gun fighter.

Yeah the JRs are still out on the JFK, they should be returning soon. More then likely what you saw was one of their backup aircraft that they left behind just in case. Since they are on their way home from the gulf they likely will not recieve anymore aircraft even if they accidentally lose one.

I'll agree with that. It is refreshing when the hero is a simple grunt, like in Quake3, or how about Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City. He was just a nobody. Ok any character is those stupid GTA games is not a hero, not even anti-hero in my book, you play a villian a bad guy plain and simple from what I have seen, sorry no interest there. Now Gordon Freeman I like engineer/scientist in a cool techno suit forced to become the savior of the world, my kind of guy, not some stupid musclebound tough, but someone with brains. Must be one of the reasons why in my books so many of my characters have technical degrees, even the strongest most muscular guys.

Oh yes I also added the sensor pods and ECM pods to the fins. Comments?

Hand me the key: Ok the design is just about locked in, and I am now going to start the detailing process, which will result in some modifications as I go. ANy suggestions for areas that need work are greatly appreciated. ANyway, the updates are as following, I reshaped the aft end made it no quite so flat, though there is still a big flat area. I also recontoured the front of the "Wings" extending them forward and shriking the size of that front drag magnet. I plan to add some hardware to that flat area, maybe even an array of cooling vents. Aside from that all I did was hollow out the engines and give them a new front end, makes them look a lot more like the A-10's TF-34s. I may move them a little though because the connceting pylons look like they may not match up properly now, will work on that later when I start detailing the engines. THe next step is the landing gears, once I have them figured out and intigrated I will start the detailing work.

Veyr nice but what the does Mise-en-scene mean?

Wow AgentOne actually someone other then his fantasy lover Arnold for a movie part I'm amazed.

Reeves was good as an 80's superman don't get me wrong, but I did not like his Clark Kent, portrayed him as bumbling dork, which he was not, he really was fairly competent, just a nieve especially when compared to Lois Lane. Now comes the big question, who will play Lois Lane, needs to be some raven haird beauty who is also tough as nails and smart.

Very nice, now can you limber up the knee and hip joints to give it a better gerwalk, guess we will have to wait and see.

THe underside, I would have doen this work last night, but was hunting around for a new fridge, mine went to pot, well rather it vented all of its freon in a freak accident and I was told to just scrap it by the repair shops. SO now I have to take off from work early and trek out to Northridge to get a new fridge because that is the closest strore that has one that will fit in the space in stock and a $100 less then anywhere else.

The Dragon has Teeth: OK I bit the bullet and buried the Plaser cannons in the nose, with only about 1/3 of the barrels and the main heat sump still visible. I will add doors around the cannon though for easier replacement. I then recountered the nose and ventral surface forward of the torpedo pack, still needs a little work but looks a bit better and is much cleaner. I then relocated the Narfics onto the angled area created by the recontoured ventral surface, gives them excellent field of fire and freedom of movement without impinging on other weapons, and makes them look like little arms tucked into the belly. I then added some vertical stabs onto the aft end of the wing stubs, they look great from straight on forward, but not as good from other angles, will play with them a bit. THere is still plenty of room in the nose of sensors, but the terrain following sensor array will have to be moved because of the guns, no avoiding that. I will also put sensor pods onto the fins I added. After that I will recounter the aft end and those flat surfaces at the face of the inboard "wings." Onto the pictures: