Battlestar Galactica Vipers

[coolusername]

Nice one Talos!

I love the F-29, my favorite mount in the ATF games and Lynx sounds appropriate enough going by Grumman traditions of giving feline names for its products. My choice of 'Retaliator' would sound way too cliché

Some changes i would make is to replace with the F-5A forward section with that of the F-20 (and its shark-nose radome), ditch the F-16 type main undercarriage, redesign the wings for more payload (wingtip rails) and a more powerful engine (F414?).

Speaking of versions, grafting the nose section of the RF-5 onto it would create RF-29 Lynxeye low cost recce version.

[Talos]

I'm way ahead of you, coolusername!

I'm also a big ATF fan (ATF Gold was my first flight simulator). Coming in the future will be the F-31 family too.

I am thinking about integrating the F-20 radome into the design as a later production version of the F-29A, with the early ones using the F-5E one. I don't know what other landing gear style would work on the design though, since the wing is higher-mounted then the F-5 and I do not want to sacrifice room under it for the F-5-type gear. Right now I'm looking at two stores pylons under each wing, two on the wing tips, a centerline, and a forward centerline for LANTIRN and LITENING pods. Now as far as engines, I see this coming into service at the end of the 1980s, so the F-404 would be the only option for awhile, though the F-414 could be used as an upgrade or standard for later models. For the F-29E, the definitive model, I'm going all-out though with a F100-PW-220/220E and much enlarged intakes and rear fuselage.

I was already planning to put in the reconnaissance nose from the F-5, but I hadn't thought of the name. I'm totally using it!

[Talos]

And here's a preview of what I'm doing with the F-14NG. It's the VF-2 Bounty Hunters CAG bird. I'm experimenting with filling with paths as well as starting to shade.



EDIT: Updated pic

[B.J.]

Alright, you're finally starting to shade! Looks good so far, keep it up!

[Talos]

Thanks, BJ!

I'm still struggling with the shading, especially how to cut it to the path so it will work with other paths as well. For example, the nose and Phoenix rails are separate paths and I'm trying to get them both to shade from the same selection. Could you explain the best way to do that part of the shading?

Anyway, more updates!

[Talos]

Alright, I think I figured that part out. I did some more shading and added a lot of the decals to the plane. All that's left is some more shading (including from the intake, wing, and horizontal tail), adding the highlighting (which I'm having problems with), and some more small details and the roundel.

[yui1107]

Mr.Shoji Kawamori's sketch to VF-4A(B,C) "Siren" and FAST pack

VF-4A/B/C "Siren" FAST pack page



These image is contained "MUSASIHA Ltd. 1/72 resin VF-4A kit" drawn by Shoji-Kawamori.

(Above image)
Kit instructions related to FAST pack

(Below image)
Atmosphere light configuration / Arnament & propellant FASTpack

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[B.J.]

I don't know what you did to figure out your shading problem, but at least in GiMP, you can use boolean operations with the paths. For example, "Add path to selection" or "Subtract path from selection". That functionality has come in very handy for me.

[Talos]

I've been fiddling with those kind of commands and it's worked pretty well. Now I'm working on the highlighting and still am having a bit of trouble getting it to look right. I toned it down to 30% opacity. There's only one, on the nose back to the spine here.

[B.J.]

I had to look very hard to see the highlighting. I really only saw it where it went over the black nose & the stripes. Not quite sure what else you can do with it, since light colors won't show highlighting very well. But even if you can't see it here, at least it's there if you go with a darker color for another paint scheme!