Battlestar Galactica Vipers

[Viper Aviator]

Talos,

That makes perfect sense, considering that the Starfighter was originally going to be the Starhound Viper. I would love to see that thing "Colonialized" If you need a reference, I believe that Alan Sinclair has detailed CAD drawings of all the varients used in the Buck Rogers series, I'll see if I can find his site and attach it for you. As for the Mk VII modifications, I just recovered from a major hard drive crash and I'll zap them out to you when I locate them (hopefully today) sorry for the delay.

Found it: http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/wiza...ght/index.html

[Talos]

Cool, thanks for the link and that's no problem, I look forward to when you send the files. I have some ideas already with what I'm going to do with the BR starfighter, it should be interesting.

[Talos]

I finished the top view of the early Viper. It really reminds me now of the Viper on the V. Pilot's patch.

[Viper Aviator]

I do have to agree with you on that one

[Talos]

Here are the engine upgrades for the Viper Mk I. The top one, which also has a nose upgrade, is the same engine package as the Mk IV, N.Mk I, PR.Mk I. The other one is from the Scarlet Viper.

[Talos]

Here's another one, the Viper GA.Mk III. It's a ground attack and hunter version of the Mk III heavy fighter. It's designed in the vein of the B-25G/H heavy cannon armed strafer and anti-ship planes. It's designed to take out ground buildings such as bunkers, Cylon ships like tankers, as well as shuttles and heavy raiders. It still has two cannons (smaller than the regular Viper guns) below the cockpit. Also, there is an IRST/TV sensor pod under the nose to aid in target identification.

[Darth Malice]

Cool, that one looks like the De Santo viper. The engine covers anyway. Good work...

[Talos]

That's cause it is. The Mk III is the De Santo one, this one just has brand-new wings.

[Talos]

For my job, I write doctrine for the US Army. After watching BSG last night, I had the idea of mounting a small grenade launcher on the M9 service pistol. So I drew this while on break at work. I measured it all out, using the FMs for the pistols and the M203 for grenade reference. It's small caliber, less then 40mm and it fits under the barrel. The background picture (which I know isn't perfectly flat) is from the field manual for the M9 and M11 pistols. The green and gold scheme for the round is the same used by the regular high-explosive grenade for the M203. The square on the launcher is the trigger, the bar above is a push-pull safety lever. The launcher is mounted on the pistol with two screws or pins on the from of the lower body of the pistol. It's a single-shot muzzle loader.

EDIT: Just a reminder, this is very much a rough work-in-progress.
EDIT2: Replaced pic since I found a better image of the gun.

[Viper Aviator]

Talos,

I like the GA Mk III and I think that you are realy on to something with the Baretta M9 with the grenade launcher. I look forward to seeing the finished product of the sidearm. Good Work.