[WOLF_Angel]

Personally I never like the looks of or liked flying the ugly/experimental.  Never touched them if I had the option.

[LordMelvin]

As much as I was thinking that far ahead, I was considering them to be cannon fodder in some kind of bait-and-switch mission, where your training squad is dispatched to mop up a minor pirate base that's been attacking civilians, and then as you engage the uglies (and very quickly blow them out of the sky, because come on, they're uglies...) a light imperial force jumps in - maybe a lancer, carrack and 'dictor, or similar, on an analogous pirate hunting mission...

[chief1983]

Maybe the uglies were not even controlled by in game humans but simple AI...wait that sounds familiar

[MR_T3D]

i think they'd be a great option for pro players whom would want to show off, because they still have laser cannon(s), and therefore CAN still take on other craft, especially if the fighters in general have low-ish hitpoints, like some of those gameplay videos.

[Dragon]

Yes, in FoTG it's not the killing which is a problem, the problem is hitting.

[FekLeyrTarg]

Hey, didn't I see a smiley on each engine of the TYE/DIE-Wing?

[brandx0]

Yeah, with that ugly I got to really have a lot of fun, as it's supposed to be a pirate fighter, so I added a shark grin like old WW2 fighters as a little affectation

[Colonol Dekker]

I'd like to see a lambda shuttles wings used on something. Just can't think what.

[Archaic]

how about the roof of a recreational landspeeder (SW version of a Winnebago), throw in some engines too.

[LordMelvin]

how about the roof of a recreational landspeeder (SW version of a Winnebago), throw in some engines too.

I'm going to lean a little bit further from the Mel Brooks stuff to start, although the one I'm currently working on will be based on the cockpit of a land-based vehicle. I should have a halfquarter-decent WIP before too long.

[jr2]

We already had a DIE wing, but unfortunately that was lost in the HD crash

You wouldn't happen to have that HD lying around, would you?

[rsaxvc]

I'd like to see a lambda shuttles wings used on something. Just can't think what.

Like this http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lancet_Aerial_Artillery? Not really an ugly though.

[LordMelvin]

After spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out how to do smoothgroups in the Blender 2.5 alpha release, here for your first-stage perusal is a rough render of a potential low-end ugly. The Deathtrap (for lack of a better name) is a motley collection of spare parts and is quite useful when it comes to launching attacks on completely unarmed targets.

(And yes, I know the proportions are still a bit off.)

[Scourge of Ages]

I lol'd at the "box fighter" thing for a good 10 seconds before I realized that that's an AT-ST head! Mounted on Naboobian fighter engines! Then I lol'd harder.

Good job! 

[LordMelvin]

It will hopefully be more recognizable once I add on the nose turret, top hatch and side gunpod (which the exo-atmospheric conversion process probably necessitated converting into some sort of sensor pod or something... Anti-personnel blasters don't seem quite apropos to a non-atmospheric environment).

[CountBuggula]

It will hopefully be more recognizable once I add on the nose turret, top hatch and side gunpod (which the exo-atmospheric conversion process probably necessitated converting into some sort of sensor pod or something... Anti-personnel blasters don't seem quite apropos to a non-atmospheric environment).

Are you kidding?!?  Flying around in that thing, you'll want all the firepower you can get!

(You're braver than I thought)

[swashmebuckle]

Might I suggest attaching the engines up a bit higher?  Like near where the ear guns would go?  SW has a lot of funny asymmetrical ship designs, but they generally have their engines lined up close to the center of mass like on a real ship/plane.  As it is the ship looks like it would start doing backflips as soon as you throttled up.  Also, Y-wing engines would probably be a lot more plausible for a ship made of spare parts, as the N-1 was an exotic fighter made in very small numbers by a single planet that had no standing army.  It does look like it'd be pretty fun to blow up though.

[MR_T3D]

i would have gone with an AT-AT style for cockpit, the ST is a little too ridiculous for my taste

[jr2]

AT-AT cockpit is as big as ... I dunno I'm guessing most of an an entire X-Wing, right?  That's be more an Ugly gunship or bomber IMO

[CountBuggula]

AT-AT cockpit is as big as ... I dunno I'm guessing most of an an entire X-Wing, right?  That's be more an Ugly gunship or bomber IMO

It might be more believable though - I mean...the AT-ST cockpit is pretty darn small as is, and I don't know if anyone could confirm that it does or doesn't actually contain any sort of life support?  Either way...the whole thing is pretty ridiculous.  It's like taking a Humvee or M2, bolting some jet/rocket engines on it, and expecting it to fly...and then survive in outer space.

But I've never really been keen on the whole idea of uglies in the first place.  If you cut apart a Cessna and an F-16, you're gonna have a much harder time getting something flyable out of it than if you just repaired the individual planes as close as you could to their original specs.  It just stretches the credulity too much for me.

Realistically, I could easily see some heavily modified Y-Wings, Z-95s, and transports of every shape and size making up the bulk of pirate or civilian fleet much more easily than a bunch of uglies.  I mean...you don't think the Millennium Falcon was the only modified YT-1300 in the galaxy?  I'd much rather see effort spent on creating interesting and plausible modifications to existing craft than on uglies...but that's just me.


Wow...sorry I didn't really mean for that to turn into as much of a rant as it did.