Jeffry I totally am with you on that . . . Urmmmmmm, I mean yep.
I have an idea of how I want to do it, been planning it for sometime now. Not every surface is going to be mapped. The underlying hulls will be mapped, and the Panels will be mapped as well, small details will not. Procedurals will have to play a huge part I am good with those.
How I plan on putting this together is still to be seen, but I am on it.
I am going to step away from this for a week and do some renders maybe, I need a break . . . plus I am planning to build an FA/18 Super Hornet so I will be gathering refs on that . . . . 3D is cool . . .
gp