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Mechis — WIP Typhoon fighter spec sheet

Published: 2006-12-13 09:43:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 3227; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 64
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Description One thirty AM in the morning appears to be when I am most productive with 3D Studio.

This is my most current WIP model, the VAL-141 Typhoon fighter, which I am modelling as a visual reference for a sci-fi novel I am currently writing.

Added:

- Hammerhead anti-fighter missiles*
- Textures (hooray!)
- Scramjet intake armor drapes
- weapons mounting pylon rack assys.
- Ventral sensors/ECM package under nose
- Aft heat exhanger units
- Ren nose art (Steeempy you eeediot!)

*Before you say "Gee those missiles look really wacky..." think for a second about why a ship-to-ship missile - in space - would be extremely difficult to maneuver using the typical thrust-from-the-rear design used down here in the atmosphere.

Instead, imagine you have thrust pulling the missile from the nose, with a gimballed thruster at the rear to steer. Make sense?
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Mechis [2006-12-13 17:26:04 +0000 UTC]

Yes, quite a few actually. Chances are I'll only ever get around to a couple of the ideas I'm throwing around though.

The story this is set in has the main character flying a 'phoon as one of a squadron of eight pilots, itself one of a wing of four squadrons on a space station, accompanied by a capital fleet of frigates, destroyers and cruisers.

So I still have a station and some capital ships to build before I can really make any good scenes, I guess... heh.

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sevenofeleven [2006-12-13 16:18:32 +0000 UTC]

Ship looks pretty good.

Do you have plans for putting this ship in a scene?

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