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Title: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on April 25, 2007, 06:55:14 pm
Most of my work for BTRL and SoL is classified but ill stick a few things up here of various subjects.  Ill post more odds and ends when i can.

Galactica Related Stuff:

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/690/cmcah72lg8.jpg)

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2714/cvbgcb5.jpg)

(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4301/tankingoffqh9.jpg)

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7024/vipermarkiicrq7.jpg)

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7075/veritechviperyz1.jpg)

Odds and Ends:

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8915/thunderchildga1.jpg)

(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1245/rk98screaminbansheesmalxu9.jpg)

Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Agent_Koopa on April 25, 2007, 10:43:17 pm
Beautiful stuff.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Col. Fishguts on April 26, 2007, 02:57:28 am
Impressive, I envy your drawing skills.

The very first pic... you sure that's Galactica related and not inspired  by S:AaB ?
It looks like a Hammerhead with additional stuff attached.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: TrashMan on April 26, 2007, 04:34:24 am
LOL...Viper Veritech...da bomb! :D
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Wobble73 on April 26, 2007, 05:07:38 am
U.S.S. Thunderchild!!!!!!!!


War of the Worlds/Star Trek Crossover FTW!!!!!!!!


 :yes:  :yes:  :yes:  :yes:
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Alan Bolte on April 26, 2007, 04:43:25 pm
Love that last one. Looks like a cross between the WC movie Rapier and the WC1 Dralthi.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Snail on April 27, 2007, 02:39:33 pm
Bah you suck compared to me.



j/k. of course
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on April 27, 2007, 03:14:39 pm
I can't refute that at this time, not without some research, so i guess ill take your word for it.


I suck at drawing compared to Snail
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Snail on April 27, 2007, 05:58:53 pm
Highlight the message.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: ToecrusherHammerjaw on April 28, 2007, 11:55:34 am
IIRC, there's already a USS Thunderchild, Akira class, appeared in First Contact.  But I think I like this one better  ;) .
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on April 30, 2007, 01:09:20 am
Never say the Vipertech is crappy. NEVER.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Raven2001 on May 02, 2007, 04:03:02 am
Cant believe Ive missed this -.-

Very nice stuff indeed, and excellent drawing "language" as well :nod:
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: jr2 on May 02, 2007, 04:06:55 am
I like sodium chloride



j/k. of course
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Snail on May 02, 2007, 03:26:16 pm
Well I do, so no j/k there.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: jr2 on May 02, 2007, 03:43:58 pm
You don't get it.


Apply sprinkle of salt directly. Seems to eliminate them quite effectively.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Scooby_Doo on May 04, 2007, 05:35:41 am
Ohhhh I love the carrier in the second pic and thunderchild too
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Snail on May 04, 2007, 02:41:34 pm
Well I do like being eliminated.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Ace on May 07, 2007, 03:47:26 am
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4301/tankingoffqh9.jpg)

All we need now is Baltar chomping on cigars in the war room talking about how certain "sacrifices" must be made, Adama screaming about Cavil seeing "the big board," Tigh telling us that flouridation is a Cylon plot, and Gaeta riding a nuclear bomb with a bottle of ambrosia in his hand.

What? No one else gets the Kubrick vibe from this?

Dr. Strange Gaius: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Frak the Cylon...
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: jr2 on May 07, 2007, 01:59:31 pm
Well I do like being eliminated.

:lol: See that's what I like about you.  You can take it just as well as you can give it.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on January 16, 2009, 12:23:35 pm
Something New:


Black Templar Space Marine:
(http://i42.tinypic.com/2z40dhk.jpg)

High Rez:
http://i44.tinypic.com/ndack7.jpg (http://"http://i44.tinypic.com/ndack7.jpg")
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Angelus on January 16, 2009, 12:32:24 pm
That's beautiful! :nod:

Reminds me of a Battlemech from the Battletech universe.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Flipside on January 16, 2009, 01:22:05 pm
Mmmmm.. Chain Flail..... ;)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Getter Robo G on January 18, 2009, 07:08:03 pm


Star Slayer: You're "Carrier" is fraking Brilliant!   :D

I love Space Carriers/Battleships no matter how "impractical" they are...

I found a dozen meshes on Google Sketchup. I just whist tehy would show up in TS3.2 I made them .objs and then .cobs but to TS they are invisible or just NOT loaded (no data)...


Thunderchild?   I.S.S. Wrath poses as the Akira USS Thunderchild vis holo disguise till it can get in striking range...

(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Star-Dragon/FS2%20Trek/trektc.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on February 09, 2009, 07:39:12 pm
FreiTek  E-Wing Escort Fighter

I modified the standard design to be a bit more rakish and more like a stooping bird of prey.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/2qu6feq.jpg)

High Rez:
http://i40.tinypic.com/67od8h.jpg (http://i40.tinypic.com/67od8h.jpg)

Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: peterv on February 09, 2009, 07:42:19 pm
 :lol: ,  :yes: :yes: :yes:
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Scooby_Doo on February 09, 2009, 09:12:56 pm
I like this one.... I might have to model it  :D
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Retsof on February 09, 2009, 09:21:57 pm
*Retsof mumbles something about hate and not being able to draw.*
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Scooby_Doo on February 09, 2009, 10:53:37 pm
Something like this StarSlayer?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/e-wing1.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on February 09, 2009, 10:55:26 pm
Wow that was fast.  Yup looks like you got it
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Scooby_Doo on February 09, 2009, 11:00:38 pm
Your sketch was great, very little optical illusions which make things extremely difficult.

I'll detail it latter when it's turn to be finished.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on February 23, 2009, 06:09:26 pm
GVD Mafdet

A post 2nd Incursion Vasudan Destroyer

Weaponry:
4 BVas
2 SVas
4 AFB
4 Fusion mortars
4 Flak guns
5 Blob turrets

(http://i42.tinypic.com/r0t6ia.jpg)


High Rez:
http://i41.tinypic.com/ixz96f.jpg (http://i41.tinypic.com/ixz96f.jpg)

here is a pic of the engine reference (props to Shade for the idea)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Twin_Linear_Aerospike_XRS-2200_Engine.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Twin_Linear_Aerospike_XRS-2200_Engine.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Retsof on February 23, 2009, 07:22:35 pm
I like the way you made it look like the Vasudans incorporated alot of Terran tech into the ship.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on February 24, 2009, 08:14:18 am
Colonial Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt circa 1st Cylon War

(http://i41.tinypic.com/k3kqz9.jpg)

High Rez:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2a4stfq.jpg (http://"http://i42.tinypic.com/2a4stfq.jpg")
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on March 02, 2009, 09:59:03 am
I took the Cylon for a space marine terminator on the first glance :D

Nice one.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on March 02, 2009, 10:00:55 am
Thanks LTC, i might work on that toaster later

For now I put together a clone trooper.  The pointing arm is a bit longer then it should be otherwise I am pretty happy with it:

(http://i39.tinypic.com/9707tj.jpg)

High Rez:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2yy3w94.jpg (http://"http://i44.tinypic.com/2yy3w94.jpg")
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Rodo on March 02, 2009, 06:29:20 pm
uhh nice one!
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on July 31, 2009, 10:19:55 am
Couple older pieces from a side project, it's in hibernation right now but hey aerodreadnoughts are to cool to not follow up on at some point.

(http://i26.tinypic.com/2i8xg8z.jpg)

(http://i30.tinypic.com/2yzh9vn.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Retsof on August 01, 2009, 04:35:46 pm
Why have you not authored a webcomic yet?  Those are awesome!
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 06, 2009, 01:54:24 pm
Heh thanks,

just for kicks here is a little chicken scratch doodle of a battlecruiser and light cruiser of the same Navy as the aircraft, since aerodreadnoughts are rule of cool.

(http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/1395/aerobczn0.jpg)


cookie if you can recognize Unrivalled 's lines
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 07, 2009, 12:55:12 am
I'm getting bits of Hood from her, but it's closer to the Queen Victoria-class...
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 07, 2009, 08:02:52 am
Cookie to you sir.  I was shooting for the Hood, I hadn't even really looked at the Queen Victorias.  Actually the standard dreadnought class for this faction is based of the interwar era Queen Elizabeth class, after she had refitted with the single stack but before they had done away with the rakish conning tower and tripod masts in favor of a giant brick.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 17, 2009, 10:59:13 am
Hey its a TNG era... um cutdown Galaxy class.  Something a bit smaller and a lot faster.  Sure the symmetry on the saucer is botched but I'm lazy and its close enough for gov't work :D

(http://i31.tinypic.com/qo65hx.jpg)

Some additional views of the KGNFS 2 seater fighter, I dunno big heavy duty biplanes are fun.  A swarm of these peeling out of the clouds on an Maulheld class  super aerodreadnought would be pretty cool.

(http://i31.tinypic.com/20ihnhi.jpg)

And something inspired by VIA.  I really dug the sorta 60-70s look of bbzwbbzw's early stuff and decided to roll with that angle.  If it isn't glaring obvious its inspired by a MiG-21 UM LanceR-B.  I might build a few more if I can be arsed.  Something F-8 Crusader and A-4 Skyhawk based might be nice.

(http://i25.tinypic.com/1zxmixs.jpg)

for those not familiar with VIA consider yourselves informed: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/2d-gallery/45208-vir-inter-astrum.html (http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/2d-gallery/45208-vir-inter-astrum.html)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 25, 2009, 04:03:50 pm
(http://i28.tinypic.com/2lu5ts9.jpg)

A Wolfen concept I did for Shadows of Lyat.  Funny enough I never played Star Fox so my designs for them tend to be a little off the beaten path.

I've got a few more things cooking including a Leman Russ Demolisher MBT and I'm toying with a compiling a set of sketches displaying Langschwert wards.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Stormkeeper on August 25, 2009, 07:30:29 pm
... Leman Russ Demolisher MBT ...
DO WANT!
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 25, 2009, 10:27:30 pm
Demolisher is not an MBT. :P
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Stormkeeper on August 25, 2009, 10:40:03 pm
Eh. S'long as we get to see the Demolisher.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 28, 2009, 10:03:36 am
DO THE ROOSTERSAURUS REX HAVE LARGE TALONS?!!

(http://i28.tinypic.com/2ypkz61.jpg)


And in slightly more serious news, a couple older shots of some aerodreadnought "verse" capital Ships. A von Kliest Zitadelle class carrier and Gryphon Undine class light cruiser.  Neither of these are really final versions though, both have had a bit of refinement here and there especially the Zitadelle which is one of the oldest designs i did for the verse.

Zitadelle:
(http://i31.tinypic.com/250in14.jpg)

Undine:
(http://i32.tinypic.com/35mmtdg.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Aardwolf on August 28, 2009, 12:23:29 pm
[Tangentially-related]Yay, I now have a scifi-meshes.com account, so I can view attachments there.[/tangentially-related]
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Retsof on August 28, 2009, 05:53:17 pm
It's amazing the level of detail you put into these.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 28, 2009, 05:59:47 pm
The design ethic on these wierds me out, openly mixing WWI and WWII styles like that.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Mongoose on August 28, 2009, 07:04:10 pm
Reminds me a lot of the concept, if not the exact design, of the anime series Last Exile.  There's something fundamentally cool about giant flying battleships.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Stormkeeper on August 28, 2009, 08:02:10 pm
I see that.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 28, 2009, 09:50:36 pm
Reminds me a lot of the concept, if not the exact design, of the anime series Last Exile.  There's something fundamentally cool about giant flying battleships.

Design wise I'm riffing as much as possible from real world warships rather then more unique steampunk style of Last Exile, though they are in similar vein.  I certainly wont have Gryphon Royal Marines on deck standing in firing lines the shooting at von Kliest Kriegsschiff Grenadiers like its the Napoleonic era however. 

NGTM-1R You weirded out bad or good? The KGN is the most technically advanced fleet and is based off the inter war look of Royal Navy ships like the Hood and Queen Elizabeth class.  von Kliest, with the exception of the Zitadelle which is driven off the Akagi/Shōkaku, are going to be GHSF influenced specifically the Derfflinger and Seydlitz/Moltke/Von der Tann.  I'm still nailing down the third faction's capital ships, right now I'm waffling between gilded pre-dreadnoughts or really industrial looking ships like the Courbet  or Imperatritsa Maria Class.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 28, 2009, 10:34:02 pm
It's good; frankly WWI ships drive me up the wall with their open secondary batteries and weird designs (not all main battery turrets on the centerline, wtf's with that!?), but the combination of a WWI hullform and WWII armament layout gives me a moment's "whut"  every time I look.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on September 12, 2009, 01:55:40 pm
A few Updates most of these are WIPs and i used a different scanner this time with less capability shall we say.

Dpv.8 Zornhau:
(http://i26.tinypic.com/ibm4ig.png)

The aircraft are named for the master strokes of German Longsword, Zornhau is the strike of wrath.  The tail symbol is a stand in but I am pretty happy with the heraldry.  Basically von Kliest has strong knightly traditions and those Orders saw the aerocraft as the heir to their warhorses and embraced the air service.  Therefore heraldry is a standard part of their aircraft.  The shield is split into three major parts. The top always will have the wolf head, which is the symbol of von Kliest itself.  Behind it is the colours of the particular Duchy the unit hails from, von Kliest only recently coalesced from a bunch of semi independent (sometimes warring) duchies.  In the bottom left is the Ritterorden or knightly order, which is analogous to the parent Air Group.  Finally the bottom right panel is the Jasta or squadron number.

Kingdom Gryphon Naval Flight Corps Pilots:
(http://i29.tinypic.com/2ue5fll.png)

(http://i26.tinypic.com/2nvt3qx.png)

I modeled it loosely on World War 2 USAAF bomber gear.  Flight cap and goggles, heavy turtleneck sweater, thick insulated pilot trousers, leather bomber jacket, insulated boots and gauntlets.  Over that goes the harness for the shoulder armor, flight mask and parachute.  Finally a gunbelt with a Model 58 revolver.

Kingdom Royal Armory Model 58 Revolver:
(http://i28.tinypic.com/67ntrp.png)

Standard sidearm for Gryphon armed forces.  Its a 44 caliber revolver with an underslung barrel.  I basically mated two weapons I really like the look of, the Remington 1858 New Army and Mateba Autorevolver.  The hammer might technically be a little out of place but it looked silly if I adjusted it. 

Knight:
(http://i32.tinypic.com/jt2btx.jpg)

Basically I got irritated with silly ass fantasy armor and decided to draw something a little more functional.  It's still very WIP, and I'll get round to finishing her later.  I'm considerin' drawing up some pictures of the various wards from Hans Talhoffer and I might use her as the model.  As pictured she is in sort of a loose stance for half sword not sorta between plow and fools ward.

VIA inspired fighter:
(http://i25.tinypic.com/14vs12r.png)

Not particularly stoked with how it came out, but I drew it so I figured I should put it up.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on September 12, 2009, 03:22:02 pm
:jaw:

:yes:

Are you a professional?
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: headdie on September 12, 2009, 05:32:12 pm
It's good; frankly WWI ships drive me up the wall with their open secondary batteries and weird designs (not all main battery turrets on the centerline, wtf's with that!?), but the combination of a WWI hullform and WWII armament layout gives me a moment's "whut"  every time I look.

a lot of the WWI battleships experimented with turret placement especially pre-dreadnoughts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship#Pre-dreadnought_battleship
so some novel placments arrived, i believe center line was avoided for many early designs for fear of capsizing on a full broadside salvo
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 13, 2009, 01:36:38 am
You assume I don't know this stuff. And no, actually it was just because the designers were idiots used to having two broadside main batteries. :P
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: bizzybody on September 13, 2009, 10:41:26 pm
Cool revolver. sorta looks like a non-auto version of a Mateba Unica 6.

Here's a plastic replica of a customized one used in some anime. http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/seburo/2F/ithaqua/ith01.html

The Mateba MTR-8 is another weird, low barrel revolver design. It has the cylinder in front of the trigger guard but is not a low barrel design, though the barrel is lower than on most conventional automatics. http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg185-e.htm

Some guns from various anime, some exact copies of real guns, some slightly or highly modified and some total fantasy. http://crimsonsguns.tripod.com/animeguns.html
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 14, 2009, 12:02:53 pm
Not bad (better faces than I can do) but you need to work on your line quality. Try using something like prismacolour col-erase photosafe blue for the initial sketch and then go over it with 2B or whatever you use. That way you final sketch won't have those sketchy lines in it like the one chick's arm.


One thing you might want to try as well is to use Letraset Promarkers to do your shading (or even your initial sketches).  Designs can turn out quite nice that way.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on September 14, 2009, 03:43:02 pm
I'll keep that in mind, tbh I'm just using a .5mm mechanical and occasionally a No 2 pencil to shade things I don't have much in the way of formal training .   Though I suppose it might be worth investing a little effort in getting better :D
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on September 14, 2009, 05:35:59 pm
I'll keep that in mind, tbh I'm just using a .5mm mechanical and occasionally a No 2 pencil to shade things I don't have much in the way of formal training .   Though I suppose it might be worth investing a little effort in getting better :D

Well your anatomy and your detailing are pretty good. I can't draw humies that good yet unfortunately and I'm prone to never doing a finished drawing, I always just do rough sketches. You've also got a pretty good handle on perspective.

But from one artist to another I'd say keep challenging yourself, keep growing.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on September 21, 2009, 04:15:31 pm
Its my baby

(http://i38.tinypic.com/2yjxytc.jpg)

I gotta admit I really love this bird even if it is somewhat over the top.  Tractor/Pusher V12 liquid-cooled aero-engines turning contra rotating props. Two synchronized 20mm cannons in the nose and three 50 caliber machine guns in each wing.  I took elements from the P-51 Mustang, Westland Wyvern, F4U Corsair and Do 335 Arrow putting her together.


You can listen to this while you look at her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDWYOlLA-w&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDWYOlLA-w&feature=related)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Mongoose on September 21, 2009, 04:41:47 pm
The Pushmi-pullyu of planes? :p
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on September 21, 2009, 04:56:39 pm
Erm not exactly.  While I don't think tractor/pusher and contra rotating props were ever put together on the same chassis both are proven concepts:

(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/7/6/7/1162767.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Do335.png)

Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on September 22, 2009, 09:58:11 am
Given the weight of the two engines and double prop mechanisms, the wings should be bigger to make it able to take off from a normal runway :P

Awesome drawing though, as always :yes:
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 22, 2009, 10:04:42 am
I think it's meant to just flop off the end of one of those atmos-carriers  ;)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: bizzybody on September 26, 2009, 05:45:41 am
Very cool concept on the latest drawing. Looks like it'd be right at home in "The Sky Crawlers".

One thing though, no way would synchronized guns be possible with contra-rotating, four bladed propellers. North American couldn't make them work with one four bladed prop on the Mustang, which is why the P-51 versions with that prop only had wing guns.

Search YouTube for Jon Gnagy. There's a few episodes of his "Learn to Draw" show from the 1950's on there. Other good YouTube searches, learn to draw and how to draw, followed by the subject you're interested in, like airplanes, aircraft, perspective etc.

There was another guy with a TV drawing show I used to watch on PBS in the 70's, but I can't remember his name or the name of the show. He used pencils and charcoal like Jon Gnagy.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 26, 2009, 02:50:41 pm
North American couldn't make them work with one four bladed prop on the Mustang, which is why the P-51 versions with that prop only had wing guns.

You got a source for that?
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: bizzybody on September 28, 2009, 02:06:57 am
(http://i28.tinypic.com/2lu5ts9.jpg)

A Wolfen concept I did for Shadows of Lyat.  Funny enough I never played Star Fox so my designs for them tend to be a little off the beaten path.

I've got a few more things cooking including a Leman Russ Demolisher MBT and I'm toying with a compiling a set of sketches displaying Langschwert wards.

I just knocked this out in about 45 minutes. What do you think so far?

I'd like to see what someone else makes out of it based on your drawing, so I'm attaching the model as it is right now.

[attachment deleted by admin]
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on April 19, 2010, 09:00:16 am
Roll out the power carts!  Jump starting the art.  Here is my kick off project, North American P-51B Mustang.

(http://i39.tinypic.com/2e4go01.jpg)

Hopefully this is the start of a new run of artwork.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: bizzybody on April 19, 2010, 08:55:56 pm
Very nice Mustang! Refreshing to see one that's NOT the D model. Very few pre-D P-51 planes exist these days.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 20, 2010, 12:45:08 am
:eek2:

:yes:
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Trivial Psychic on April 26, 2010, 07:18:07 pm
I got a few sketches I made a long time ago, for WWII era, but none of them would come close to the quality of your work.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on June 23, 2010, 09:42:08 am
A Blade Runner inspired sketch i did for work:

(http://i48.tinypic.com/2v7vzfn.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on December 09, 2010, 02:30:40 pm
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2a50uc3.jpg)

Not to shabby for using white board as the medium
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Post by: Hades on December 09, 2010, 05:19:18 pm
nice hat
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Post by: StarSlayer on December 09, 2010, 06:12:26 pm
nice hat

Napoleonic uniforms at their best (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcd1-W3_K5I&feature=related) :)
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Post by: bobbtmann on December 09, 2010, 09:27:35 pm
A Blade Runner inspired sketch i did for work:

What kind of work do you do?
Title: Re: Get your pitchforks and torches it's Heretic Burnin' Time!
Post by: StarSlayer on February 14, 2011, 05:30:19 pm
While Freespace 2 was pretty amazing game I was never to jazzed about the Terran Fighter designs for the FS2 era.  Blasphemy I know.  The Great War era craft where pretty iconic and look like functional bad ass birds but in FS2  :v-old: went a little off the wall IMHO.  So on a whim I decided profane the gods and do my take on some of the GTVA's stable.  I tried to work the functional look of the FS1 designs back into the ships as well as give them a unified F-22/35 texture look.
 

(http://i53.tinypic.com/28akrw2.jpg)
GTF Herc Deuce

(http://i56.tinypic.com/2s7w84m.jpg)
]GTF Ares

(http://i53.tinypic.com/11ltn3n.jpg)
GTF Perseus

(http://i53.tinypic.com/23w9yxd.jpg)
GTF Erinyes
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Post by: headdie on February 14, 2011, 05:45:10 pm
The Herc and the Ares are ok, the Perseus is a bit meh but someone needs to model that Erinyes!!!

edit

All in all they are designs i could live with
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Post by: Nyctaeus on February 14, 2011, 06:10:38 pm
Impressive :yes:. You're master of pencil! :)
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Post by: Thaeris on February 14, 2011, 08:18:25 pm
Not really my cup of tea this time around, Slayer, but I regardless commend my fellow pencil artists.

:)
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Post by: esarai on February 16, 2011, 10:06:49 am
Son, this is ****in' fantastic.

And I'm way too young to be calling anyone 'son,' but whatever.

Serious A+ stuff going on up in dis.
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on February 16, 2011, 02:13:04 pm
Hmmmm, I agree to +1 Erinyes model, but Starslayer, i'd need you to show us an isometric view or three as well :D
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Post by: esarai on February 17, 2011, 04:36:09 am
(http://i28.tinypic.com/2lu5ts9.jpg)

You know what, this is too cool to be let alone.

It may evolve.  Watch out.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on February 23, 2011, 12:46:56 pm
Hades was bugging me for my take on the Deimos, here she is:

(http://i54.tinypic.com/110g8p4.jpg)
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Post by: CKid on February 23, 2011, 12:54:51 pm
Very beautiful design. My only nitpick is the nose.
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Post by: Rodo on February 23, 2011, 01:08:41 pm
OH! nice Deimos concept :yes: :yes:
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Post by: Hades on February 23, 2011, 01:25:55 pm
Very nice! I hope it isn't too much to ask for a nice side and/or top perspective? I seriously want to model that. :D
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: headdie on February 23, 2011, 03:32:14 pm
Very beautiful design. My only nitpick is the nose.

Speak for yourself, while not strictly FS i like it
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Post by: Snail on February 23, 2011, 06:40:26 pm
Looks sublime!
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Post by: NGTM-1R on February 24, 2011, 01:11:38 am
Hades was bugging me for my take on the Deimos, here she is:

(http://i54.tinypic.com/110g8p4.jpg)

I demand someone model this right the **** now.
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Post by: Enigmatic Entity on February 24, 2011, 03:29:04 am
Deimos Mk II? I need to learn to draw, I struggle with modelling stuff efficiently at the moment because I can't visualise it properly; if you can draw it, it is easier to model... :)
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Post by: Black Wolf on February 24, 2011, 04:29:40 am
That nose reminds me of some of the Moscow iterations.
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Post by: redalbatross on May 11, 2011, 08:30:28 pm
I know this is kind of a necro, but as an aspiring pencil artist...

Holy crap. This is some really fantastic stuff. I love the reimagining of the FS2 ships especially. I love razor and sawtooth edges and aggressive designs. There's a menace in the lines, a subtle threat in the form, and when you're discussing war machines...that's a good thing.
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Post by: Falco314 on May 12, 2011, 10:45:49 am
Hades was bugging me for my take on the Deimos, here she is:

(http://i54.tinypic.com/110g8p4.jpg)
Daaamn, awesome sauce
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on June 14, 2011, 08:31:11 am
Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing

(http://i52.tinypic.com/51ahg.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Thaeris on June 14, 2011, 08:45:19 am
I approve of the broader vertical stabilizer and the properly lengthy nose, as well as the broader missile launchers.

I would change the cannon mounts, however. Also, being a traditionalist, I'm not sure I like the nose broken up as it is, though it's irrefutably a neat concept. One or two crewmen?
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on June 14, 2011, 12:24:48 pm
Yeah I did a quick edit to the sketch and merged the cockpit armor to the main hull and it looks pretty good.  I originally was planning on the rotary mount Lambda style lasers but was a bit pressed for space so I went with TIE style nubs.  If I keep the motivation going I'll see about putting together some orthos.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: NGTM-1R on June 19, 2011, 05:38:12 pm
It is shiney. I approve. (Though knowing you, I'm surprised some of the missile tubes aren't obviously empty, what with the dead corvette.)
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Post by: StarSlayer on August 12, 2011, 09:14:04 am
Various works from that most excellent of canvases, the dry erase board :P

(http://i55.tinypic.com/vxyb2u.jpg)

(http://i52.tinypic.com/2nqb7uc.jpg)

(http://i56.tinypic.com/2s1690x.jpg)

(http://i56.tinypic.com/skzwqs.jpg)
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Post by: Thaeris on August 12, 2011, 10:51:08 pm
You, Sir, are my favorite person to try to outdo.

I salute thee.  :yes:

:D
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on September 19, 2011, 07:18:22 pm
(http://i51.tinypic.com/f1e3kh.jpg)
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Post by: bobbtmann on September 22, 2011, 09:42:44 pm
These whiteboard drawings are excellent. They feel nice and loose, which seems to give them good energy.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on July 27, 2012, 01:35:38 pm
Had to attend a meeting on time management, cartoony aircraft sketches ensued.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/ok3d41.png)
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Post by: Thaeris on July 27, 2012, 02:55:07 pm
I like it!

:yes:
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Post by: Trivial Psychic on July 27, 2012, 09:33:12 pm
Cool, though as stated... cartoony.  Regardless,  :yes:
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Post by: Retsof on July 28, 2012, 01:27:32 am
I find it ironic that a time management meeting resulted in doodles.  Not that I blame you of course.
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Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on July 28, 2012, 01:37:38 am
Cute :)
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Post by: Mongoose on July 30, 2012, 02:36:51 am
I find it ironic that a time management meeting resulted in doodles.  Not that I blame you of course.
Seriously, you'd think they'd figure out that such a meeting is about the worst use of a person's time. :p
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 30, 2012, 05:25:54 am
It's an oxymorinic function.

I'm a habitual doodler too Starslayer, just wondered how you manage to avoid detection :lol:

My boss'd bounce me like a Half-Life 2 pulse rifle grenade if i got caught. :nervous:
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on July 30, 2012, 08:28:10 am
It's an oxymorinic function.

I'm a habitual doodler too Starslayer, just wondered how you manage to avoid detection :lol:

My boss'd bounce me like a Half-Life 2 pulse rifle grenade if i got caught. :nervous:

He, and pretty much everybody else in the conference room, where busy not paying attention to notice.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 30, 2012, 10:27:56 am
Hmmmmm..............

I will try to be less of an attention whore at work. :yes:

I'm assuming you use a scanner to ummmm.............scan?
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on July 30, 2012, 12:02:32 pm
I should clarify, nobody else was paying attention to the presentation either :P 

When I looked round the table and everybody else was looking at their phones, I felt it was okay to sketch. 

Yeah I just threw it in the scanner.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 30, 2012, 12:05:35 pm
 :D :yes:

Do you take requests at all? I'd like to see your take on a shield heli-carrier style . . . . . . . . . .Thing.

I've recently freed up an hour at work, so.....

/me raids stationery cupboard.
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Post by: StarSlayer on August 24, 2012, 04:34:18 pm
My name is Legionary: for we are many

(http://i50.tinypic.com/10wtxrl.png)
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on August 24, 2012, 06:18:44 pm
Isn't he a little short to be a stormtrooper legionary?

That's very cool though, I like the chain mail effect.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on August 24, 2012, 07:31:50 pm
We'll I was looking to make him a bit more stocky to depict a legionary from the Roma proper as opposed to one of the big bastards they could recruit from Germania or Gual provinces.  The mail was done by splitting the hauberk with a series of light horizontal lines basically to frame the rings, then I alternated which side of the ring was highlighted row by row.
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Post by: rscaper1070 on August 24, 2012, 11:47:36 pm
The average Roman soldier was like 5' to 5' 4". I always thought that if I had a time machine it would be a riot to go back and watch the little guys running around. :lol:
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Post by: Scourge of Ages on August 25, 2012, 01:17:27 am
The average Roman soldier was like 5' to 5' 4". I always thought that if I had a time machine it would be a riot to go back and watch the little guys running around. :lol:

No kidding. That's history for you!
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Post by: StarSlayer on June 14, 2013, 03:57:00 pm
Random Pen Doodle of the Day:
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2rhrz1l.jpg)

Just a RGM I put together using parts from a variety of EFSF grunt suits.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on November 30, 2015, 10:51:11 pm
There is a design a ship contest on the NA WoWs forum I doodled up the following:

Akaishi-class cruiser
 
(http://i65.tinypic.com/qq51n8.jpg)
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Post by: Mammothtank on December 07, 2015, 10:01:46 pm
That doodle of that GM unit looks like a mixture of the Jesta from Gundam Unicorn and GM Custom from Gundam 0083.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on January 08, 2016, 06:50:03 pm
GTF Myrmidon

(http://i65.tinypic.com/111rxgn.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/or8k8j.jpg)
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Post by: StarSlayer on March 21, 2016, 08:15:39 pm
Details for the OCD God!
Flying Buttresses for the Architecture Throne!
Let the Galaxy Greeble!

(http://i65.tinypic.com/zjuqnc.jpg)

I got a little lazy at the engines but at that point I was ready to go cross eyed, overall not bad I think.
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Post by: AtomicClucker on March 29, 2016, 01:57:47 am
Muhahahaha, I love it. You're style really reminds me of Van Gogh's quirky sketching - nothing like his paintings, but energetic and frenetic in a lively mood.
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on March 29, 2016, 08:46:45 am
Thanks, though I think I want to keep my ears!
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: StarSlayer on May 27, 2016, 07:24:21 pm
RNI Systems GTF Hamilcar "Heavy Herc"

(http://i67.tinypic.com/w8nlv7.jpg)
Title: Re: Slayer's Crappy Used Ship Lot
Post by: Trivial Psychic on May 27, 2016, 10:49:02 pm
Lookin' cool.  It's givin' me a bit of a Loki vibe.  Also, I think that that ventral spike is a bit oversized.