Knight26

Interesting, the show wasn't half bad, not as good as the book but a damn sight better then the horrid movie. Still, I would have prefered power armor that looked more like the one in the anime version, at least then they would have looked like apes.

update: New PLASER Cannon and Boarding ladder are in.

Plasma LASER, aks PLASER Cannon updated. I added many things to it that it needed, heat sinks, emergency vents, reserve plasma tanks, mounting nuts, quick release latches, etc... C&C are welcome. I should mount it tonight and also model the boarding ladder, I have design in mind, I just need the model to make sure it will fit. Oh yes, it also an 8 barrel gatling weapon, thought I would mention that.

I am strictly a GI Joe Comics continuity guy, the cartoons screw it all up.

I may get it, looks very good, but I am still waiting for the last Medal of Honor Expansion to hit the PC.

*crosses fingers* Rogue Squadron TV show, oh please a Rogue Squadron TV show is all I ask.

Not really an update, just a joke picture. Looks like Grunt isn't pleased to have me in his seat, lol.

Good comments Opus and in reply. I will have to put up a pic of the underside of the "skids" They all have de-grav generators in them, self powered or powered from the fighter that basically make the fighter float about 1/4" above the surface of a 1G planet when activated, thus eliminating the need for wheels. The canopy is still not final and I may make some modification, even debating multipiece canopy instead of a one piece like now. It may become something like the original canopy again, I just need to figure out the whole shape and everything. As to crew access I am considering a fold down ladder similar to an F-14 then a walk strip on the "canard." Man this beast is getting complex, lol. Yeah Shin those are old buddies of mine I used to work, some of my best friends. I agree AUTOCAD isn't the best modeler, but I like it and it gets the job done. Also, little know fact but the renderer is the same as the old 3DS renderer, maybe two or three releases behind the 3DS renderer.

A quick shot of the first test pilot crew with the design to date, the pilot will by buddy Peter C. "Rambler" Hantelman, marine corps aviator, certified flight instructor, Instrument... (I'd go on but his full intro if a full paragraph, hense the callsign). And the WSO is Phillip "Grunt" Grissom.

Right Rear quarter:

Update time: I attached the redone energy cannon, namewithheld of security purposes, lol. I also installed the overhead docking mounts, the latching mounts may look familiar, the small indentations are the umblical hook ups. I then changed the left wingtip, I may or may not keep it that way, any thoughts? Basically it is that way just to make it easier to redesign that wingtip bio cannon mount, the angled one is a pain. C&C are welcome.

That's sad that you can't enjoy reading for the sake of reading, personnaly there are few things better that don't involve a woman then kicking back and relaxing with a good book.

Ok, worked on the forward energy cannon today at work, I need to bring the rest of the weapons with me tomorrow to work on. I went in and detailed it, still need to texture it, just call this one factory fresh and super clean, lol. I will mount it tonight after I do some work on the main model first, mostly just cleaning out the unused textures, which can sometimes be tricky with ACAD if any inserted parts have not been exploded yet. Oh and the gun is a partially deployed position here.

OK, since I can't work on the design at work because my machine is not powerful enough I have worked on side projects, that are still related, like the landing gear and weapons. THis one however are the warning signs, not just for this fighter but for all fighters and ships. Let me know what you think they are as follows: Top Row: Self-Starting Machinery, Open Machinery, Flammable, Explosive 2nd Row: Bio-Haz, Corrosive, High VOltage, Radiation, Normal air Pressure, High air pressure 3rd Row: Laser, P-Laser, Electro-Mag, Sensor, Hard Vacuum/Open to Space, Low Pressure 4th Row: 1 Grav, 2 Grav, 3 Grav, Null Grav, Reverse Grav, Variable Grav Please excuse the poor pic quality, best translation I could make from ACAD to Jpeg at work. I used current international/universal warning signs as a reference and went from there. As always C&C are welcome, are there any I missed BTW?

Best scene in the show, sent my Dad giggling, which is rare for a cartoon to do, except maybe Lupin, When they fix the power core with Duct Tape. LOL, if you can't duct it chuck it.

Despite the lower budget I am looking more forward to the Pendragon release now that I know about it. If it really is a faithful adaptatation I am so behind it. THis kind of reminds me of when the two TOmbstone movies came out around the same time. I would laugh my arse off if Pendragon's does better at a lower production cost, and then they release on DVD just as the Spielberg (updated) version comes out in theatres, just like TOmbstone did to Costner's Wyatt Earp movie. Man Tombstone was far superior to the Costner movie, I mean for one thing the actors looked like the people they were portraying, Kurt Russel was a dead ringer for Wyatt Earp.

And a rear view, sorry the lower tail is blocking the landing gear view, I still need to add the interior of the landing gear wells.

Ok I fixed the landing gear.

yeah it stinks that there is no Tomcat, but the Patriots, A-10 demo, and Super Hornet Demo should make it pretty fun, too bad Vandy-1 is gone though.

Standing view on the mirror plane.

skids down, the reason the mains are so far back is becuase, well that was the only place I could fit them, the area right before them are the missile packs, which are removable, so taht is no place to put the landing gear.

Ok, landing gear are in, with some slight modifications. And yes before anyone asks I do realize that the nose gear skid is too long, I will cut it in half and turn the other half into a door. I still need to add a couple small details, but overall the landing gear are in and done, let me know waht you think.

Man LGs are a pain to design. I had an idea becuase looking at the first concept I realized that in a particularly rough landing they could collapse pretty easily if there is a pressure loss in the system. So I put together the following. Upside it should keepe mains pretty well locked in place, downside, it will take up more interior volume, something I want to try and avoid. The pics from left to right show, fully deployed and locked, deployed, not locked, and retracted. And haterist, the color scheme is temporary and the fighter can be repainted in a number of schemes, and hey even microfig scale is fine, though I admite 1:18 scale would be cool, shakes that off. Just be sure and give credit where it is due, I would lvoe to see what you can come up with, and like I said if it come out well I would be willing to buy a copy.

Haterist if you can make a good rendition of it out of lego, then I will pay you for one, I would love a good physical model of this design.

Preliminary nose gear concept, basically I just swapped around the parts and made a couple small modifications. Of course since I do not have the model on my work computer this is about all I can do until I get it home and install it, rescaling, adding details, etc... ANy comments?