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Re: UIW Mainstay Mark 1-A Fighter
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:18:31 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Tony Hafner wrote:
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The lines near the front are nice and smooth- those curved pieces around the
nose make for a great mostly-studless ship, though it kind of clashes with
the angular shaping of the rear.
The greebling between the top engines is
decent, but seems somewhat misplaced. It seems like the hole that you put
those details in is recessed way too much... no, that’s not it- the top
engines are the problem. The ship really looks like a sleek fighter with two
extra engines grafted onto the top.
The color scheme is nice- all of the
variants look good. Mostly white with a single highlight color tends to work
pretty well, and the grey/red version uses both accent colors well together.
On photography: a high front angle shot would be very helpful for getting a
better sense of the overall shape. The grey pic is close to the right angle,
but is too low and has the canopy open. The first pic in the gallery is a
bit too high.
If you built multiple copies, that would make for a great
shot- or did you recolor the same model for the different liveries?
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Tony,
Thanks for the feedback.
The different liveried ships are redresses of the original model. I do plan on
building several more fighters of the same design (c’mon, Postal Service!) -- I
want to eventually do a Marine color scheme (light & dark gray, highlights of
black & green), a Marine ground-assault variant (load it up with missiles,
rockets, and maybe shorten the nose), and a Border Interdiction scheme (yellow
with black highlights).
Here’s a couple of new shots of the bird:
I’m going to experiment later with moving the engines down a brick and see how
it looks, but I think currently the high-mounted engines imply speed and
strength. Also: if you notice, the two side-mounted engines have undergone
minor up-beefing.
-Jeff
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 | | Re: UIW Mainstay Mark 1-A Fighter
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| (URL) Here you can see (on the right) what will (upon delivery of my latest Bricklink order - c'mon, Missing Brick!) become a finished Marine version of the Mark1A. On the left, and under construction, is another Navy Mark1A, hopefully to be (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) The lines near the front are nice and smooth- those curved pieces around the nose make for a great mostly-studless ship, though it kind of clashes with the angular shaping of the rear. The greebling between the top engines is decent, but seems (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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