Knight26

I try and stay away from the typical sci-fi magic explinations, if you look at the incredible cross sections for AOTC Curtis Saxton does his best to try and explain why the engines on Padmes mini-cruiser and jedi starfighter were so low. Basically he uses the extremely dense and massive component in the belly explination. The engines are massive enough to lower the CG, but even that does not lower the CG enough, so it would have pitch up issues. Really the only fix would be to lower the central hull and or add another engine to the top. I don't see the BSG look you mention, except that is has the same general layout as the BSG itself. One possible redesign would be to take that BSG look all the way, putting the engines in the main section with smaller sidemounted weapons pods. As for the tie-bomber influence I really do not see that. The wings don't flap, they fold up for landing, I will add structure to the point where it mounts to the fuselage. Though the wings may or may not stay, at this point the design is still pretty fluid. Those "struts" joining the main fuselage to the weapons/engine nacelles also act as airfoils, this is a tranatmospheric bomber so has some aerodynamics built in, but atm flight is mostly dependant on anti-grav and engine thrust. And Drad, like all my designs, these are for the books I am writing, I design most if not all the ships and vehicles in the books. Maybe someday I will try to port them into a game to fly them, that would be fun.

Well it is intended as a long range heavy bomber, probably most akin to a B-1B. I still like the old design, but its biggest failing was the high CG. I try to keep the designs somewhat realistic design and with the low slung engines and high CG would cause it nothing but problems. I was contemplating another engine on top to compensate for the high CG, but decided against that.

Oh and the registry of the landed configuration. Those four lights on the back are the emergency grappler beam projectors and have an airlock between them. This is to allow for emergency SAR (Search And Rescue).

And of course the registry view: I'm having a little bit of problems with the textures but that be resolved quickly, plus I need to add control surfaces to the wings, sensors, anntennae, etc... you get the picture. Well what do you guys say?

Fore View:

Landed configuration:

Now onto the new design, as usual any comments or critiques are welcome. Ladies and gentlemen without further ado I present the newly redesigned ASF Model 524 Feral-F.1 Bomber. I'll do the five subvarients later.

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.