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Re: HSF-100 Ibis Starfighter
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Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:51:20 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > From: "Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu>
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> > Beautiful! Great details, especially the moving ones :) The design is very
> > slick and realistic looking...except for that giant gun hanging off the
> > bottom. I think it would look much more streamlined and plausible without
> > it...
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> I kind of like it. I figure it would serve as an anti-capital ship weapon,
> perhaps with limited shots, or some kind of reactor that took time to
> recharge in between shots.
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> As for being streamlined... heck, it's space, man! :^)
Yeah, that's the one thing that made me do the doggie-head-tilt-
"rarf?"-manoeuvre. The giant honkin' ingot. But it looks great,
very, well, bludgeony. Would it be too risque to call your fighter,
dare I say it, "well-hung?"
> In any case, I was mainly trying to make it look as much like the picture as
> possible. The belly gun ended up looking somewhat chunkier than the "real"
> one.
I first saw Silpheed in 1989, when I sold computers (and the AT
was the power machine!). I spent many long hours drawing ships
to that design philosophy, although that was in the middle of my
"dark age" so it never got rendered in ABS. Great to see that
someone took on the challenge, at long last! :) Silpheed as a
game was mildly interesting, but the promo art was always very
cool.
Now, as for the "convertable fighter" that's been suggested you
try, you might want to look at another game created by the same
team that produced Silpheed: Thexder. I always liked Thexder,
it had that same simple design philosophy, with large curves and
stubby foils...and very interesting and consistent "bad guys."
*thunk* There's the gauntlet! Ha HA! ;)
best
Lindsay.nl (who pines daily for his Lego, away in storage...)
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| (...) Risque, perhaps... but extremely appropriate. Very nice ship, Mark! Nice form, nice colors, very detailed. I've been thinking of trying out a similar canopy arrangment, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. Looks very good on that model. I can't (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Aw, heck. Now you've done it. I suppose now I gotta start thinking of ways to make a variable fighter. I'll probably undertake that challenge in a couple weeks, after I've had some time to stew up a few strategies and let some people see the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I kind of like it. I figure it would serve as an anti-capital ship weapon, perhaps with limited shots, or some kind of reactor that took time to recharge in between shots. As for being streamlined... heck, it's space, man! :^) In any case, I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.space)
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