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Offline Venicius

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It's a bomber I was inspired to make after looking at the new HTL Medusa this morning.






http://www.mediafire.com/?605pfja306n83tj

it's a .dae file for anyone who wants to play with it.

 

Offline Snail

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That's an interesting design. Looks like it would make a good fighter-bomber judging from the size of the cockpit.

 

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Looks like a missile oriented interceptor, but that's fine, we don't have many of those.

 

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should I keep the missile tubes as they are or make them solid for when I figure out UV mapping?  right now they're hollow.

 

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Offline MatthTheGeek

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And yeah, this could see some use as missile-oriented interceptor or strike bomber, either of which is good. Shape itself is looking good so far, keep it up.
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Yeah, the general shape is looking good, although I think it could use some more "stuff" like fins or wings, maybe coming off the engines or the missile pods, to give it more dimensions.  Right now, the proportions look a little off, since it's so long and narrow, but as the main body of the bomber, it looks nice.

 

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I really like the design, but it looks too small to be a bomber - even if that cockpit is scaled for two people, total length of the model likely wouldn;t go beyond about 15m. It would fit in as an early ship IMO, TV-War era. FWIW, I disagree entirely with DeltaV - the smoothness and lack of extraneous bits and pieces really work for this ship IMO. Are you planning on taking it further (texturing?)

There do seem to be some smoothing errors in those shots, but I'm sure you've noticed them.
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Broaden out the head and swivel the missile pods to be horizontal rather than vertical and you'll have a bomber version of the Galactica.  ;)
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It did kind of end up like that. 

But now, it has a pitiful attempt at a UV map (I think!) and it's still a dae, so...here it is.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7sbx0ubq8qteb
« Last Edit: March 12, 2011, 09:43:29 pm by Venicius »

 
I like the front, the back half doesn't seem to quite fit in with it.
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I think giving it larger rocket pods and smoothing the cockpit will work great on this design. :)
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While trying to figure out UV mapping on the other ship, I made a new interceptor.  It takes its design from the Persius and the Valkyrie.







Here's the other ship, I did some work on the missile pods and enlarged everything  behind the cockpit.




 

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I like the interceptor. It could be a rare Reconstruction-era interceptor bridging the gap between the Valkyrie and the Perseus.

Weirdly, the Perseus' first combat deployment was actually Enif Station, while the Valk is described as being "long since retired" meaning the GTVA had no interceptor for some time.


On the models themselves, I find the greebling detail to be a bit too regular, I tend to think that tacked-on square embossings are a little less interesting than greebles which appear to have some kind of purpose, like pipes and stuff.

 

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yeah, they've got a little ways to go still.  Funny thing about you thinking the interceptor could be Reconstruction era,  I had that same thought!

  

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Weirdly, the Perseus' first combat deployment was actually Enif Station, while the Valk is described as being "long since retired" meaning the GTVA had no interceptor for some time.
Aside from the Horus. But if you mean terran ships, well they didn't have any interceptor after the Perseus was introduced either. Persie is a space superiority craft, and has never been an inty in anything else than name.

Anyway the designs are looking quite good so far. They have quite a mix of bulkiness and curves, which is why I think Snail's statement about Reconstruction-era craft fits the line quite well. Texture does matter a lot in that regard too though.
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Aside from the Horus. But if you mean terran ships, well they didn't have any interceptor after the Perseus was introduced either. Persie is a space superiority craft, and has never been an inty in anything else than name.
Yeah I guess this is why they never saw it fit to bring in a dedicated interceptor until the Perseus, the Myrm did the job just fine.


Looking at the interceptor again, if I could make a suggestion, I think it might look a little better if the wings were slightly angled downwards, as they are on both the Valk and Perseus.

 

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It does appear to have a smaller cockpit to fuselage size ratio, so I expect that it would be more of a light interceptor or light fighter developed (as suggested) during the reconstruction era, when the border groups couldn't afford to buy or build full military fighters.  It could almost be akin to the Anibus in terms of its cheapness and limited complexity.
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It has actually a good Angel MkII feel to me.
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