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I want that South Korean Fighter for X-Mas this year.
Nim, I'll cue that first nove into my endless Book Que O' Doom (I should be up to it by year's end).
Start that thread...or maybe it's time to open the rusty door of the Designs & Creativity forum and make the thread an All Flarite design thread wherein we post our designs from novels or whatever.
Also, seeng images of cookies first thing in the morning is just...wrong. Now I need to add chcocolate chips I my omlette...
mmmm...choc-embryo-licous. (your word of the day: use it in a conversation at work)
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WizartistII: Aah, Viggen. I remember the first time I saw one of those, I was 5 or 6 years old and they had one parked with camouflage nets close to the finish line of a rally track, as SAAB was a main sponsor (Stig Blomquist, in his immortal Audi Quattro, was in that race), and my dad took me and my brother with him, his company co-sponsored one of the teams. Me and my bro walked up and touched the jet and it loomed like a space shuttle over us, two little spuds.
Jason: I heard your comment re: my throwaway nebulon-sketch, I'm working on a companion class to the Hammer now, it'll debut in the new thread.
I'll definitely make the thread in the D&C forum, but it's prolly best if they are kept dedicated. A single thread for flareite ship designs would get a bit jumbled, and artists couldn't talk about their specific thing very freely after four more contribs have come up. Would be like a little duck pond.
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Nim I always thought the Viggen and the Draken were the coolest looking aircraft when I was a kid. Of course, I always wanted the U.S. to build the SCAMP.
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Nice one, Delta wing to the max. Yes, the Draken's always been a seductive design to me, I got a surprise when watching Nicolas Cage's "Firebirds" and seeing one as an enemy jet, first time I'd seen one on film.
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The Concordia is a pretty badass design but I always thought that the Tigers Claw was such a well put together ship as well. Almost like a battleship/carrier in space.
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Meh- looks too much like an aircraft carrier- very Starblazers. They need a version with the catapults and hangars on the ventral side- twice the capacity for a minimal artificial variable gravity variation.
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The fourth carrier of the crosseyed fleet, made eco-friendly from packed compost. Following the standard practice of camoflguing spaceships as paper models.
Eye-watering textures aside, it's not terrible- just very plain with no real detail or thought in the design- Do craft take off and land from the same bay? That's going to be one space-collision after another.
Do the fins make it go faster?
That big block one up top- is that the on-board Supermax prison or something?
But hey- nice big skylight. Should help with those clustraphobic crewmen.
It's a flying box with two sub towers on one side. As a bonus, it's nice and dark in color, so those thrilling landings against the blackness of space.
Huh. I could almost see it as a good space prison design.
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i've always been partial to ships from Macross myself (but have a special place in my heart for Star Blazers vessels from The Comet Empire) ARMDGitmoUraga though they have too many black holes to make them remotely believable...
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