[Deepblue]

Bah, Vasudans are such whiners ever since their planet went Blamo.

[Taristin]

You're just jealous because the Vasudan economy is so much stronger than the Terran one.

[Cabbie]

Nice work! I hope you'll finish it soon! Focus on one craft first before you go for the other !



Edit: Man, we have a ton of Apollo fanboys here eh?

[Taristin]

Too many. It was such a crappy ship... but I guess, it's their first... and you never forget your first...

[Goober5000]

It's not crappy at all.  It's one of the most well-balanced ships in the game.  It can hold its own against even FS2-era fighters.

[Taristin]

It's a heap of crap.

[pyro-manic]

Heathen!

And you don;t want a Thoth, you want a Horus...

[MicroPsycho]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Athena, biotch.

Or Artemis, both are nice ships.

Originally posted by Goober5000
It's not crappy at all. It's one of the most well-balanced ships in the game. It can hold its own against even FS2-era fighters.

No it can't.

[Corhellion]

I just finished a rough 'outline sketch' based on the proportions of the cockpit.

She'll be 88 studs long...THAT'S HUGE! that's like...the 2nd largest thing I've built!

As for the Valk, I'd estimate it at about 65+ studs long, so...I think it'd be pretty much to scale...I hope...almost...

[pyro-manic]

Heheh. I built myself a big battleship thingy back in the day (I was about 12) that was over a metre long. Now that was big. It did have a tendency to sag in the middle when picked up, though.

Wish I had a picture of that....

EDIT: Micropsycho - yes it can. It turns just as well as any FS2 fighter, and can keep pace with many of them. Give me an Apollo and Prometheus guns, and I could beat up all over any FS2 fighter...

[Skippy]

Good start for now

[Primus]

Perseus, ofcourse!

[Night Hammer]

im gonna agree with raa, forget the terrans, go with an Astaroth

[wolfdog]

Wha..? how do you do that..? I never get something that looks better than a.. cube...

EDIT: Micropsycho - yes it can. It turns just as well as any FS2 fighter, and can keep pace with many of them. Give me an Apollo and Prometheus guns, and I could beat up all over any FS2 fighter... [/B]

guess that's against ai?  because you can even out-turn a dragon with an ursa agianst ai:p

[Corhellion]

Wolfdog: They're both built using a technique called 'SNOT' which means: 'Studs Not On Top'

The Valks Cockpit has studs on almost all the sides: top, bottem, left, right and front sides have studs, the rear does not.

The Apollo is made with hinges, plates and wing pieces. And the cockpit is actually 'floating' where it is, pinned between the two sides of the ship.

It takes a while for things to come together cause you have to invent new ways of joining things with very few pieces (I don't have that large of a collection, just about...5,000-6,000 pieces...which is small compared to other collections.)

Good news too, The Valk is almost done! I can safely say that given the night I can complete it or get a 'rough draft' of the ship done.

Pics forth coming.

[MatthewPapa]

Originally posted by Goober5000
It's not crappy at all.  It's one of the most well-balanced ships in the game.  It can hold its own against even FS2-era fighters.

Why I love the Apollo. It is my favorite ship in the game. The last time I played the freespace2 campaign I beat almost all of it using the Apollo. That thing has like the best reactor out of all terran ships.

[Cobra]

I vote for Apollo. Before I discovered the Herc, Apollo was my fav fighter. I liked the design.

[Corhellion]

By the looks of the votes so far, it looks like it'll go as follows for the first batch of ships.

Apollo
Valkyrie
Perseus
Herc Mk1
Herc Mk2
Myrmidon

I'll try and get them finished in that order...but the Valk will be done before the Apollo...so...no one gets to see it till the Apollo is done!

Then you get a double wammy!

As for the Perseus...it'll be interesting to see if I can build it...if I can get the cockpit built...I can do it

[Corhellion]

WHOOO!

I know I said I'd do the Apollo first, but...well...with the Valk almost finished...I decided to put up some pics..here's two (low quality) pics to tempt your eye buds.





It's not done yet...I'll get the Apollo up then I'll post the finished Valk

Enjoy!

[Night Hammer]

wow, badass