Buck Rogers Starfighter
 

This is a return to my youth a bit - this ship has always been a firm favourate of mine - it looks mean and vicious and damned fast!

IMHO It should have made an appearance in the film that it was originally concepted for - Star Wars..


Here's as far as I have got after about 2 hours tonight - in between work and other stuff.

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Yes, Yes!!! I always thought this was a way cool fighter. And of course I know you'll do her justice.

One of my all time favorite ships!

I am so very very very very very very very happy you are making this one :)

But wasn't it originally designed for season 2 of BSg, but never was?

Yep, considered for Galactica before redesign to the viper

I like them both.

Awesome work Fabs, as usual.

:)

Drools . . .
And fonds memories of Erin Gray surface.

Did a bit more tonight - decided to go for the more blocky look of the horizontal outer wing as was common in the show - Going to animate them rear aerilons too ;):
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Also finished off the preliminary Blurbs shape for the lower wing - freezing to come next and then stencilled details after optimisation :)
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Here's the latest on it:

Finished the lower wings and started work on the middle fuselage section - there won't be any more now till next week - client work to finish first :)

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Oh yeah, now we're talkin'. Looking great so far.

Someone asked for a wireframe - so here's what the wires look like right now. There's quite a lot of Polygons to come off that figure when I get round to cleaning these sections of the mesh up when it's completely finished.. :)

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Great job Fabs!


You know, I never cared much for the fighters. They're definately a cool look, but I don't know... One ship I've always loved from Buck Rogers though, is the ship they used in the second season. The Searcher or something? It just had such a cool look to it.

Plus, that's when they introduced Crichton, and I have an affinity for hoity toity, sarcastic robots.

Very well done Fabio !
Any chance that you model these ships too:

http://members.fortunecity.com/wendh...s/searcher.htm
http://members.fortunecity.com/wendh...derfighter.htm :D ;)

That's it! The searcher!

Such a bonny ship...

Finished my client work last night and was itching to get back to work on this ;)

Here's another 4 hours work - one of the more difficult things to do was suss out from the reference how the rear and underside "meshed" together - but I got it in the end - (thinks he maybe should have bought a model kit of this ship for better reference! ;))

here's the latest

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Looks like you nailed it. Fantastic work, she is the best I seen done so far. I can’t wait to see the finished version.

I do have the 2D CAD files available if you would like them.

Have a great day.

Alan
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/wizardofflight/

Those are the blueprints I am using WOL :)

Fabio,
Any chance that you model these ships too:

http://members.fortunecity.com/wendh...s/searcher.htm
http://members.fortunecity.com/wendh...derfighter.htm :D :D ;)

Coming along nicely now :)

Just the cockpit inners to sort out - some minor tweaking all over the body (detailing) and then onto the texturing.

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Here's some wires :)

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Excellent. biddy biddy biddy.

Not to chastise your work, but why is it that modelmakers sought a need to limit fighter pilot visibilty with these wide framed cockpits? Too much reliability on technology?