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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: YPU on July 09, 2022, 09:34:42 PM

Title: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: YPU on July 09, 2022, 09:34:42 PM

Here we go, with castles in the sky taking of (pun intended) and macross martin taking a stab at it as well I'm giving in and trying my hand at sculpting some airships. I'm starting small with fighters (triplane push props, obviously) and a gunboat, semi flying wing design. I'm aiming for more fully flying wing models for the larger classes.

(https://i.imgur.com/uzyg1UZ.jpg)

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: commissarmoody on July 09, 2022, 10:04:15 PM

Pretty cool

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: Furt on July 09, 2022, 10:24:17 PM

Very talented YPU!

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: Macrossmartin on July 10, 2022, 02:54:48 AM

He is indeed very talented! I'm proud to have lured him to the steamy side of SF ship design.  :D

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: YPU on July 10, 2022, 05:17:36 PM

Aw thank you chaps!

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: Easy E on July 11, 2022, 08:44:17 PM

A unique design that I have not seen on the market anywhere else.  Cool stuff!

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: YPU on July 12, 2022, 08:53:47 PM

Quote from: Easy E on July 11, 2022, 08:44:17 PM

A unique design that I have not seen on the market anywhere else.  Cool stuff!

I´ve definitely got a style of my own, and I´m lucky that there are a lot of sectors of the hobby where that niche has not been filled yet.



Meanwhile, I´ve sketched out another slightly larger ship. A light torpedo frigate maybe?
I'm mostly trying to work out a shape language here, so that if I decide to make another line I have a bit of universal style for it all.

(https://i.imgur.com/lZtgPeH.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/BASTuKg.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/IctdFjw.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/2g5rrMF.jpg)



This one is going to need some fancy swirlies on it as well ofcourse, but I'm still unsure about the overall shape. It might all be just a bit too modern and sleek?

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: The_Beast on July 13, 2022, 02:53:01 PM

Handsome beasts, indeed.

Not my vision of pre-WWI aircraft, as I follow the 'anti-grav aeronef/lighter-than-air aerostat' conceit, these come close to softening this curmudgeon's hard heart.  ;)

You certainly might 'greble it up, but I'm not sure it would improve.

But then, I also don't follow the 'VSF air warfare is pre-dreadnought' mantra...

Doug

Title: Re: Flying wing Nefs.
Post by: YPU on July 13, 2022, 03:04:49 PM

Thanks B.

Yep I'm still considering how to make these feel a bit more old-timey, the smoke stack isn't doing enough. Greebles is a challenge as at 1/1200 these things are tiny! Less than a CM long and only a couple wide roughly, so any details I make need to be bold and clear. (Not sure the engine details will work in the physical version for example) but these renders look so bare without it.