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Old 10-01-2006, 01:19 AM   #1026 (permalink)
sheppard123
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Originally Posted by Bar View Post
This is only loosely Stargate related, but here goes:
I recently got a new Gi-joe Fighter aircraft from a friend in the US. It's a small jet called the Firebat:

I saw it had potential, and in my mind, it became the MIG-305 "Chimaera".
Designed using a blending of Asgard/Ancient/Tau'ri technology, it will become a new addition to the human arsenal.
My thinking was that the US is spending a lot of money developing and building the DSC-304s, and that they don't really have the resources to develop other designs, so the tech for different projects is handed off to other nations in the IOC(Kind of a spring-board idea for different nations' to develop their own brand of advanced craft).
I have already modified the ship slightly, and made a new vac-formed canopy.
There are many more modifications to come, but for now, here's what i have(We had a beautiful afternoon here in Scotland, so i took some images of it against the blue sky, and then crudely photo-shopped out the pole it was sitting on...):

















I can just imagine a squadron of these being deployed on the next Russian 304...
Criticism is welcomed.
Bar.
And how old are you? Its a nice ship ya made but....
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