Wow first I have to apologize, I missed that part where you said you plan to do glows/shine. I made a primitive glowmap. Nothing fancy just the intakes, the cockpit, the dot on the nose the red triangle on the missiles, and added some spot lights on the wing decals (just cause I love spotlights).
I like your design a lot and just wanted to see how it felt in person instead of a screenie and threw it (model and maps) into nukemod (my testbed for 3.6.9 now lol, thanks Nuke!) and was surprised the weapons rotated under the chimera table.
For your first fighter this is damn good!
Here's how it looked from me screwing around:

I was wondering if you'd allow this for SG-1 or better yet SAAB?
