Th&b: Fighter 2

[Freak]

As promises here are the test render of the wings swapped forward.
Please keep in mind that it current shape will not be final, I just knock this up to get a basic idea of what it would look like.

If I do go with this style of wing, I will make it as close as I can to the Arise Fighter.



Anyway let me know which looks better wing up or down forward or back.

[Meph]

Hmmm, I would make the angle of the trailing edge a bit sharper.

[Freak]

yeah it was just a mock up of what it will look like.

I thinking of doing the wing simular in shape as the Aries, but with out the upper winglet at the end of the wings.

[Ice-Dragon]

I like the shape of the body of this fighter great work on that adding the wings of the Aries fighter would make it look really cool

[Lord Ravensburg]

I have to vote for the wings pointing down, give it a more preditorial feel to me...

[Freak]

Thanks guys.

I-D I have tired the Aries wings. I have found two problems. first there angle is to steep to be pointed down as they go into the ground when the figther is on the ground. second they are two small. I did try resizing them but they looked wrong.

So I have started a new wing basing it closely to the Aries wings with a few changes.

[Freak]

No Update just a rant, as I need to vent some steam!

Okay it official I suck at making stuff in Blender.
As most you know I find it easy to do my modelling in SUBd as it get the shapes I want the easiest. (I have never been able to get them any other way as they always look to boxy to me, even with the smooth tool on.)

Due to modelling this way, it causes doing panels to be a great pain in the arse.
As I have to duplicate the whole area instead of a small part, turn the SUBd into a meshes, then start the slow process of making the panels. Not really a major issue. However turning a SUBd into a meshes turns one faces into about 70 faces, and this make the process a lot longer than really needs to be.

Anyway, after countless rebuilds of the wings I final got the shape that I wanted. (That was not too bad as it was about 2.5 hours worth of work.) However the problem arose when it came to do the panels. 3 days later and 20 tries at getting it right and it is still not quite there.
I have decided to do only one wing as doing both was causing problems. So I plan on finishing this one wing off, and copying the panels onto the other wing.

But I feel like bang my head against a Brick wall!!

On the pulse side I have spent most of today surfing the net looking for tut’s, the down side there are not much on what I am looking for.
The tut’s I did find will be handy when I start my next pic. However they are for older versions of Blender. (I can’t find half the things needed with Particals in the new version) But Blender does have an Archive of old realises, so tonight I will down load a version I needs for one of the tut and work on that. So expect to see a WIP pic’s in the Fighter with hint of BSG Thread in the next few days

As for this girl, I am hoping to have the wing panels done either later today or Monday, so updates will be coming soon.

Well that the end of that Rant and I feel much better!!
Now I am going to keep looking for an easy tut on making things without using the SUBd!

[Freak]

Small update,

Here are the panels on the wings, took long enough to do, still not completely happy with it, but it okay.

As Always please leave C&C.

[Lord Ravensburg]

all and all not bad Dean. Some of the panel lines are a bit wide though.

[Freak]

Thanks Lee,

Yeah I know, I cut them a bit wide. I’ll most likely redo them, Once I-D sends me back the file. I looking forward to seeing how he built this girl without using SUBd, because using it can be a pain is the ass when it come to the panels.