Two low priority ships have been released to the public. These ships are unpainted but are uv mapped and supplied with template textures and reference material. The hope is that someone from outside the Babylon Project's normal team can step up to the plate and paint up these ships. This can be done by editting the template textures using some graphics package such as Paint Shop Pro and viewing the results using some 3D viewer program such as 3D Exploration. No truespace work is required.
The first ship is the Raider Battlewagon:
As featured in Thirdspace. The Raiders' secret weapon, intended to give the Raiders enough firepower to hold their own against a cruiser. Although as evident in the movie, not against a sizable portion of the White Star fleet. It's generally accepted to be a converted Narn Bulk Freighter.
Download the model, template textures, and reference material here:
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babylon/additional_downloads/raiderbattlewagon.rarThe second ship is the Raider CNC Transport / League Base
As featured in the first regular episode of Babylon 5, season 1's Midnight on the Firing Line. A base of operations for the Raiders found hiding (somewhat stupidly) in the middle of a fast moving asteroid field. Despite the name it doesn't look like it would be able to move very far under it's own power. More like a stationary star base. It appears to have Narn/Drazi markings on it so it's probably an older League of Non Aligned Worlds base. It's cute anyway.
Download the model, template textures, and reference material here:
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babylon/additional_downloads/raidercnctransport.rarWe're looking to the public for help painting these ships because all our regular texture artists are busy with other higher priority projects. These ships are quite low on the list and aren't going to appear in the mod any time soon without extra help. On the other hand, if someone steps up to the plate they'll be in the next release. Which would mean the Raiders are fully kitted out as a fighting force.
As a side note: keep an eye on The Babylon Project at the moment. The team have made lots of progress in the last few weeks with many projects being completed. Look out for some awesome pictures of the Vorchan, Sentri, G'Quan, and Frazi's facing off over (what I believe is) Centauri Prime. Also, bear this in mind. They've got more done than they're letting on
