[Scooby_Doo]

The long forgotten poor Crossbow finally gets modelled.  It's a mixture of at least three different versions of it, (the old saga version, plus a couple from CIC)
It's wearing the WC3/4 texture style and comes in at about 3400 polys. Turret still needs texturing I see.







and just for a good chuckle, WC2 style.

[Mars]

That is one sexy ship.

[Getter Robo G]

Geez louise, I havne't seen that ship in AGES!

Now do that big arse Carrier one or a Midway (if the team hasn't done so yet)

[Scooby_Doo]

Edit: Forgot the most important pilot view...

[Mars]

I've only one minor concern:

The turret isn't gonna stay green is it? 

[Scooby_Doo]

Nope, I forgot to texture it as i was rendering and I didn't want to stop :-P

[Mars]

Good, I revert to my previous statment

[Galemp]

It's a fighter with tits. Nice.

[gevatter Lars]

Looks good and quite close to the original. One small things I would change are about the texture. These yellow part at the nose aren't fitting in IMO. Maybe it could be something blue or just different greys.
For fitting better with WC3/4 style I would give it some kind of markings. Hellcats for example had these green/grey carro coloring on the wings, Longbows yellow/black stribes....maybe for the Crossbow some blue/grey or blue/white stribes would be nice.

[WMCoolmon]

...can you make the gunner's head swivel with the turret?

[NGTM-1R]

You altered it to give the pilot better FOV...

And the WC2 Crossbow was all-white.

[Janos]

You altered it to give the pilot better FOV...

And the WC2 Crossbow was all-white.

White with blue stripes!

[Herra Tohtori]

...can you make the gunner's head swivel with the turret?

Nah... Make the gunner show the finger when the ship is disabled. 

E: To also say something related to topic on hand, I must say that at least to my inexperienced eye this looks like quality work indeed. I never played the Wing Commander so I have no reference to compare this one to anything. But, like I said, it looks cool.

[aldo_14]

Pretty.

[Starman01]

I like it    But I have to agree with Lars, get rid of those yellow techstuff textures on the arms and above the turret.

[Black Wolf]

Scooby Doo - do you ever do original, non WC designs? With The speed at which you're getting these things out, you could probably have an original fleet in no time...

[Scooby_Doo]

Lars:
 I'll agree with the yellow, I tried fooling around with it once and didn't get good results, I'll try again, also that walking sheet metal top needs to be replaced,  I was scheming on something like a "walk area" but throw out the idea. As for striping, I could use parts of that funky WC2 style on the last pic. LOL

WMCoolmon:
Actually I think I could, the head would become a turret, but how would I keep the turret from actually firing anything and just pose?

ngtm1r and Janos:
Look at the last pic, it was white-washed, which didn't turn out half as bad as I first though, pure white would look just ugly.

Herra Tohtori: I don't know how exact it is either, there was at least three different pics I used as source, and none looked exactly like the one pic on CIC, I wish someone had a real all-angle view of wc1/2/armada ships.

Starman01: the yellow above the turret is for emerengecy exit, although it could be thinner striping. ship could also use more detailing of that nature.

btw what is the FOV for default FS2? I know you can change it but I'd like to be able to setup a camera with that ratio?
WHEW..... LOL

[gevatter Lars]

No WC2 painting please ^_^

[Scooby_Doo]

No WC2 painting please ^_^

Well the painting isn't a problem, just hide/unhide some photoshop layers thats all :-)

[DavisOfTsurgi]

OMG! another good ship.   Just with the other Designs, brillant.