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Here's Mike Winterbauer's wonderful Wing Commander SNES painting as a pin-up in a French magazine called Super Power!
Here's Mike Winterbauer's wonderful Wing Commander SNES painting as a pin-up in a French magazine called Super Power!
Plywood Fiend has started a series of video reviews for the episodes of the Wing Commander Academy television show. He covers episodes' plots and hits on a number of discussion points. After incorporating feedback on the first video below, an expanded feature of the second episode was posted here. Let PF know what you think and help him improve future episodes at the CIC Forum!
Wing Commander Academy is available at Amazon.com for $19.99 here. Sharp-eyed readers have noticed that Amazon has sold out of and received additional batches of the set since it was originally released in May. Unfortunately, Target has sold out, but Deep Discount has a pretty good price at around $17.
Here's a couple updates to callitri's Concordia model. They show how a few secondary structures have been recently overhauled. Side hangar doors were revamped, and the smaller scale guns were sharpened up quite a bit. The third image is a comparison shot from an earlier build. Check out the simple boxy miniguns behind the main turret and blank rectangles on the side. His supercruiser has come a long way! callitri is still looking for a volunteer willing to take a crack at textures.
About this model performing in a game: it has to much detail IMO. Games like Homeworld 2 have seriously limited detailed models. They do great things with textures, which give you a sense of detail and shapes, but the models are pretty basic. I never destined the ship for games, I just wanted to be able to see it because I loved it in the movie. I hope I'll find someone to texture it for mePS if anyone has good pictures of the Rapier and Broadswords from the movie, I would love to make them too and maybe detail the hangar in a separate setting.
The ship is getting close to being finished. Hope I can find someone who can help me texture it, because I have zero experience in it. Don't forget I am still learning stuff in Google Sketch up, so it's still a learning curve. I have remodeled a few things and redid a few parts. The underside is done, though I feel it's a bit empty. At the moment I have no idea what to put there to change this.
Here are some updates to callitri's Concordia supercruiser. Quite a bit more equipment is present on the upper structure. The hull shape has been adjusted to allow for better positioning of the main turrets. His next focus is on areas where there is less detail to go on. You can help provide feedback at Crius.net.
Here's another set of Concordia supercruiser renders courtesy of callitri. In these shots the ribs along the side of the main hull are now visible and surround what might turn into the hangar bay. "Fins" that were more pronounced earlier (and gave the ship a Devastator feel) have been slimmed to better represent the shape. The cruiser is much more heavily armed now with the addition of a third main turret and several secondary batteries positioned on top. The conning tower and bridge are also more detailed and more closely resemble the shape of the original.
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