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P-38 Entry: C--38 Cylon Lightning
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Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:13:50 GMT
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First off, I hope all you .spacers out there enjoyed your weekends, and I wish
you have a productive week.
This has been a busy weekend for me. On Friday afternoon I kicked myself out of
my post-PDX funk and set myself a goal: build at least two entries for the
P-38 contest.
Here’s the first product of a weekend of work, what I envision a Cylon P-38
Lightning would look like:
Full gallery
What started
off
as a completely original moc soon became much more. As I was showing off the early
work to some of the big kahunas, Adrian Drake pointed out that it looked sort of
like a Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactica. Well, I was inspired by that
remark, and after
a
couple
more tests with the shape of the ship, I zipped quickly through construction
until I completed the model early Sunday morning (2 a.m... I swore I would not
sleep until I finished it!)
It was originally grey w/ dark grey highlights, but during construction the ship
really cried out for some color, and after deciding against the original colors
and stripes of the P-38 I went with dark blue, out of personal taste.
Please let me know what you think! I’m interested in any and all
comments/criticism about the ship! I learned a lot of things about building
while at PDX, and put a couple techniques to use here (g-snot made most of it
possible.)
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| Hi there Ryan, That's a fine ship you have here! First of all the pics you present in your building notes really help understanding your work, a nice plus IMO! I wish we could see more often this kind of post. Good idea you have to take pictures (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Ryan, you've obviously put what you've learnt to good use because your use of slopes and SNOT to make curves on this fighter is just excellent. If I had any criticisms it would be that you didn't seem to use any 3x12 wedge slopes! If not, I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Obviously good advice combined with da skillz to make this come together so well. I could see the danger of this being the split tail on the back looking 'tacked on', but with blending both the slopes and wing elements together, you've created (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| Hey Ryan, very cool P-38 there! The shape is excellent and very accurate for the Cylon Raider. One suggestion would be a change of canopy. Although the one you used is more P-38 like, take a look at this one. Might help to keep the shape of Raider (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Ryan, Very cool ship. I really like the dark blue on light grey color scheme. I think that really sets off your design. The shape of the wings really evokes the cylon raider feel. I also like the look of the embedded starwars engine pieces in (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| Great job Ryan, you get my vote so far for the coolest entry. The raider-shape is perfect, and you lost nothing with the integration of the engines. if you ditched the tail you probably wouldn't win, but it would look even better. The only flaw is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Snip (...) Hey Ryan, That is one excellent, solid design. A weekend well spent, for sure. I find the colour scheme refreshing. I think the strong point of the design for me, is the way the forms intersect. You have the large oval of the wings (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| I gotta agree with what everyone else is saying: this is one beautiful MOC. Excellent use of slopes Ryan; you're definitely going to inspire a lot of people. I also love the way the dark/navy blue looks with the light grey. Awesome! Can't wait to (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| Hey sweet! The whole thing feels really tight, I like that. The shape is really cool and like Gil said, the twin booms are really nicely incorporated. Nice landing gear too, and the guns are sweet. Cool stuff, -Geordan (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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