[Lightspeed]

Make a concept art Manticore

[Ace]

Sweet, but it looks like you're missing the lower two tail fins

[Gank]

Originally posted by Nico
No, I've decided not to touch old canon ships ( I've done, more or less the mara ), coz adding details to something that already exists, and that you can't modify w/o being insulted, is:

Touchy f*cker arent ya Anybody insults your work, tell them to **** off and make their own

1) boring
2) useless
3) boring
4) something anybody can do
5) boring
6) is basically unoticeable, details are swallowed by the blurry maps, and I don't feel like redrawing those maps, would be long and tedious.
Did I say it was boring, too?
So I don't wanna

1. Boring maybe, all depends on the person thats doing it. Personally I prefer to have something to work from already, originallitys not my strongpoint.
2. Meh, maybe, models already exist but then whats the point in redoing an old ship of your own.
4. Not everyone can do it good.
6. Anything you do I'll texture for ya, time permitting. Bar Shivans, get giger for them.

Your right on the intakes, probably no room for them on the texs.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Make a concept art Manticore

Yes.

And the Benkei. Do the Benkei!

[mikhael]

Not bad Venom. I think you need to add the other two tail fins back in though.

[neo_hermes]

i like those fighters Nico.

[Taristin]

Looking at it again, it looks like a Pelican (HALO)

[Knight Templar]

It does?

[Nico]

No, it doesn't. At all:

People keep trying finding likelinesses everywhere

As for the fins, no, don't want them back, for various reasons. It'll stay with only two fins from now on

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Nico
...6) is basically unoticeable, details are swallowed by the blurry maps, and I don't feel like redrawing those maps, would be long and tedious.
...

Not basically!  Totally!
Redundant. Just makes the basically slow FSO even slower.

[Nico]

minor update:



I've added the cockpit, the underneath guns ( the original had 8 guns, so this one will too ), the two gliding rail fins ( now you get why I didn't put four fins on the engine pods? ), I've made those rails longer, and the overhal plane shorter, with smaller wings. Also have removed the plates on the "neck", they'll come back later, theywere annoying for tweaking the main body.
Anyway, two questions:
1) Orpheus or Ezechiel?
2) you like that nose, or you prefer the old one?

[Ypoknons]

I'd personally take the new, mostly because I like the more "modern jet figher look" I feel the fighter looks better with it.

Name... Well, um... Orpheus, I guess, since it's not part of a series and it would stand out if Ezechiel was kept. Although a new series of fighters using biblical names is a thought....

[Setekh]

1) Ezechiel. Awesome.
2) I kind of like the old nose. The pilot looks great nestled in there, though.

[Unknown Target]

How'd you do that cockpit?

[Bobboau]

the very tip of the nose doesn't look quite right

[Nico]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
How'd you do that cockpit?

Model, texture? What else do you expect

Bob: yeah, I know, still some tweaking to do so smoothing doesn't do those annoying shades.

[Bobboau]

maybe try one of those double tiped vasudan style noses

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Nico


Model, texture? What else do you expect

Bob: yeah, I know, still some tweaking to do so smoothing doesn't do those annoying shades.

I meant how did you stick it in there

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Nico


... the two gliding rail fins ( now you get why I didn't put four fins on the engine pods? )

It all becomes clear now. The new Ezechiel is hot hot hot. I take back everything I said.

Anyway, two questions:
1) Orpheus or Ezechiel?
2) you like that nose, or you prefer the old one?

1. Ezechiel. I've never cared about making names match up with the stupid naming system Volition used.
2. The new nose rocks. Just needs some clean up, like you already mentioned.

[Woolie Wool]

I like this. I might use it in Starforce as an atmospheric fighter, because most of the other fighters in Starforce aren't exactly aerodynamic.