Knight26

This redesign caught me by surprise. Originally it was intended to be purely cosmetic in nature, to change a few faults in the design, replace the turrets, fix the CG, etc... Instead it turned into full tear down and rebuild. I reused most of the parts, just chopped them up, resized them, repositioned etc... The redesign was actually mitigated by changes to the size of the torpedoes it carries, making them smaller then they were before. That was done because the the enemy torpedoes have become so small, so I decided that the more advanced race really needs to have the smaller more advanced weapons. Anyway this size change allowed me to toy with the idea of adding more torpedoes giving it an equal number to the enemies vampire bomber, 12 plus any extra in bomb bay. I think the bomber that has resulted is hundreds of times better then the original. The design is almost done, just needs a few tweaks like the thrusters and other details. Anyway onto the pictures, first off the original version:

nah, because then Val Kilmer would be Max. Hey Val Kilmer wouldn't be a bad Max, and his WSO/RIO was kind of a big not so bright lumox, hmm its Kakizaki. Holy Shreg, that's it Top Gun copied its characters from Macross, lol. That would make Tom Skerrit's Character Breetai and Jeremy Iron's Kamjin. Obviously then Kelly Mcgillis is Misa and that blonde what's her face is CLaudia, obciously they made her white to cover up the conspiracy and not make it too obvious. Lol. man I crack myself up.

Just in case you are wondering all four sets of engine rotate independently of one another, I was just too lazy to rotate them to show that prior to rendering the images.

Now the Osprey, the GF tactical dropship. This one may never proceed much further beyond where I have it now becuase it is being a pain in the rear. FOr some reason I can't shell it to make it hollow inside and make the cargo bay. I will keep experimenting to get it to work if I can, but for now this is good enough. THough I really should add the landing skids. ANd yes before anyone jumps on me for it I do see the resemblance to the SA:AB dropship, that wasy not intentional, it just came out that way.

Man I really should have added a second light source under the ship to illuminate the bottom, oh well. Here is the registry picture:

Ok I promised you the Brekhov, and here she is. I think I may have gone a little nuts with all the anntennae on it and I still think that it is lacking something, any opinions? It's hard to see but the underside does have a small hanger for dropships and docking points for a full squadron of fighters along with shuttle docking ports along the rear. I think this design is far superior to the original but I don't know it still seems to be missing something.

Well Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards might be the appropriate heights to play Hikaru and Roy Respectively, lol.

Probably just a perspective trick, or may be the bow fork sticking out there that makes it look twisted up.

I am all over that set, that and the Lost Boys DVD release, gotta love the Peter Pan References in that cool vampire movie.

I will probably keep the engine nacelles, but have been considering beefing up the connecting arms, giving a much more solid connection to the hull. If you look at the old thread you will see that those are basically the last hold out of the old design, guess they are goners now. Besides, its a carrier not really designed to be pulling hard Gees.

lol, I;m contemplating signing up my sister and a few girls I used to date, lol. Nah, I'm evil, just not that evil.

Not sure I know what you mean Ewilen, its just a standard perspective shot using a 25mm camera lense.

Yes yes something of mix between the two, this is one of my few through deck carriers, most have seperate launch and landing areas that are not immediately connected. Aargh, I keep forgetting to update the registry template, need to fix that, thanks for point that out, bugger. ANy comments on the designs though?

Here's a nice little render I did just for kicks, a Tenrack, two Mosquitoes and a pair of Solaars Mk-3 launching off the redesigned mitchell. The redone Brekhov came out pretty nice but needs something in my opinion, will post pics tomorrow. THe redesigned GF tactical dropship is coming along nicely too but needs a lot of detailing work, mostly it needs an interior and doors at this point. ANyway here is the pic:

Next up the five view registry shot:

Next up the Tenrack bomber. THis one was not a full up redesign but instead was more of a tweaking of the old design to make it look far better IMHO. I haven't textured it yet but really I don;t think it needs it really at this point. I still need to add more details to the landing gears and the landing gear wells, as well as the bombbay, buy the landing gear and the doors are all there. I am also going to redo the cockpit interior. Right now my biggest concern with the bomber is not its design but its name, Tenrack has never been a good name and now no longer even fits as the redesign added two more torpedo mounts. So any suggestions right now I am leaning towards Valkyrie or Vampire.

Next up the five view registry shot, as always any comments/critiques are welcome, oh and after I made these renders I changed to a different texture, no pics of that yet, oops:

SOme of you may remember this thread from a few months back before I went underway on the USS Reagan for a couple weeks. Well I finally got around to doing some of those redesigns. I will post more pics of the changes and new designs later but my home internet connection is down right now until I get my new DSL hookup. I have pictures of two of the redesigns that I feel came out really well. First off the new Mitchell Class Light/Escort carrier. Its now about twice the size and mass off the original design and IMHO looks a hundred times better. I may do some more work on this one to add details and such, which all of my designs need really. ANyway a few hardcore BSG fans may recognize the overall configuration. I drew insipration for this design from Ralph McQuarries original BSG design concept. I thought it was such a cool design and perfect for a small carrier design. First shot is my customary four view: Edit: Added a link to the original concept I drew inspiration from.

I liked that 90's batman series, very gritty, very dark knight, and approaching the frank miller sytle, a little bit. As it progressed it got darker and darker, which was good, but I think that turned some people off. I like that dark dreary look, really shows what Batman was suppossed to be like, no all bright and colorful like super man. Give me the bat any day over the flying alien, at least he uses his brain to solve mysteriesm not just his super powers.

COngrats man, she's a doll.

MMM Linda Carter as wonder woman, no current actress could play that part as well as her. Come to me my 70's super hero amazon.

Happy Birthday Neil, will need to tip one later in his honor.

Give me a 2 seater any day. I think the main problem with making a 2 seat 1:48 is making it perfect transformable. THe heat shied and swing bar design currently in use will have to be revamped in order to allow for the transformation because of the added length.

There's your problem then, heightwise, the average zentraedi is only about 40 ft tall. Lengthen the thighs a little and you might get a 1:48 zentradei

Interesting but the legs look way too short, especially the thighs, make it look more apelike in proportion.