[karajorma]

To be honest I'd be tempted to sweep the wings the other way, turn it around 180 degrees and use it as a fourth race fighter

[DragonClaw]

Originally posted by mitac
british fighter craft - what's it called, "Harrier"?

I don't know why so many people think that plane is British. On the contrary, it's American, even though the very early harriers were designed by the British. McDonnell Douglas is the contractor, which is an American company.

...my rant for the day.

I kind of like the design of that ship, it's got a 'whitestar' feel to it, imo.

[Gloriano]

looks cool.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by DragonClaw


I don't know why so many people think that plane is British. On the contrary, it's American, even though the very early harriers were designed by the British. McDonnell Douglas is the contractor, which is an American company.

...my rant for the day.

Who said mitac was refering to the current generation of Harriers?

Besides just cause an American company builds it that doesn't change the fact that it's a British design. If every Macdonalds in the US closed overnight would that stop them being American?

[Flipside]

McDonnell Douglas is the contractor, Hawker Siddley is the designer, a British company. The only reasons Harriers aren't built here is because the Government screwed our steel industry

[DragonClaw]

And Rolls-Royce is the designer of the engine used. I usually think of a plane as being property of the builder, not the designer. The British still have to buy their Harriers from the United States.

Kara: not sure the fast-food analogy applies. French people don't buy Mcdonald burgers from the United States and have them shipped over

[Nuke]

Originally posted by Flipside
McDonnell Douglas is the contractor, Hawker Siddley is the designer, a British company. The only reasons Harriers aren't built here is because the Government screwed our steel industry

no aircraft builder in their right mind would use steel in an airplane. too heavy. the harrier is probibly an aluminum airfrfame with maybe some titanium.


as for the ship im done uv mapping. i got today off work so im gonna start textueing it right now.  the general idea in mind was sports car with guns. a civilian ship that has ben retrofit with weapon systems.

[Flipside]

Nuke, it was more a question of facilities to store and build these planes to be honest. Aircraft hangers are made out of Triplex steel, there were plans to build another 3 at Farnborough to allow for storage and design for another 24 planes, but the order was cancelled because overseas prices were too hefty. The case is the same across most of the BAe sites, so while we had technology, we did not have the facilities.

And on topic, the ship looks pretty good, looking forward to seeing the finished product

Edit : Oh, and DC, tell me about it Our government would sub-contract our souls to Satan if they could

[DragonClaw]

Originally posted by Flipside
Edit : Oh, and DC, tell me about it Our government would sub-contract our souls to Satan if they could

And an0n would be delighted to hear about it


That design really looks like more of a frigate than a fighter though, imo.

[Black Wolf]

Flip - if it means anything, China's screwing steel prices over all over the world, so I'm not sure how much your government could really do to prevent it. WA has some of the biggest iron deposits in the world, and a massive infrastructure for processing it and we're still paying through the arse.

[Nuke]

well the good news is that the textures are 80% done. im gonna try to finish it up before i go to bed and if i finish i will post pics later tonight.

[Nuke]

ok, i replaced the old untextured pics with the new textured ones, just follow up the same links. texture work is still at a base level,  i will ad a layer or two of extra decals on top of that. i thought about it and i think im gonna put a mine launcher turret on the back of the ship (behind the rear window, where the gunner sits).

[Krackers87]

Originally posted by Flipside
McDonnell Douglas is the contractor, Hawker Siddley is the designer, a British company. The only reasons Harriers aren't built here is because the Government screwed our steel industry

It might also have to do with the fact that the Harrier is a VToL making it many times more expensive than the average fighter.

[Turambar]

off topic ppl

either talk about his fighter (i dont like the textures) or start a new thread

[aldo_14]

Don;t like the textures either....seem too...odd. A bit 'random', seem a bit underdetailed IMO (excusable given it's WIP).  Scales are definately off-putting, and there doesn't seem to be too much of  a coherent colour scheme at the mo.

[Nuke]

i tell you this is not my best work. but at least i got the smoothing right this time. and the mine launcher is a good touch, its not too muck to screw up the balence and it makes dogfights more intresting.