Tiger Tale
Posted: 26 Dec 2012, 18:51
Here is a late arrival for the 2012 modeling schedule, but it's a lot closer to completion than my normal projects. This is Jake Burrus' F-5 Tiger II source material, and it has been pretty much re-built in the mad modeler's workshop. The list of stuff I did to this model is too large to list here, but suffice to say it's at least half my design now, but Jake did all of the original work and I thank him for letting me forward this project to it's natural completion. I'm pretty sure this is the American 'MiG-21', a small, cheap, and lightweight multi-role aircraft for lots of export (and painting).
I was asked by MAIW to fix one or two things on this model for a couple of upcoming MAIW packages, and I just let loose with creative stupidity, and made this. These are all finished single-LOD beta models, and have been worked through flight test pretty rigorously. There are still a couple of bits and pieces to add in and tweak, but you can get the picture of where I am going with this. And before anybody asks for some country's specific version, I am addressing this in the same insane manner as I usually do. A couple of the shots are in 'animation' mode, to show what I did here and there. The rear fuselage vents have six louvers per side (plus flip sides and internals; the overall poly count to add them in was about 360 for the whole model, but they took about four hours to model in; but I think it was time well-spent. I can get away with it because these aircraft didn't carry 6 tons of bombs like the F-4, so the add-in ordnance loads will be a lot more polygon-economical.
So, have fun with this one, and it won't stop my schedule of one package per week until I clear out the modeling closet of 2012 projects; although I have been exceeding that pretty well so far.
MP
I was asked by MAIW to fix one or two things on this model for a couple of upcoming MAIW packages, and I just let loose with creative stupidity, and made this. These are all finished single-LOD beta models, and have been worked through flight test pretty rigorously. There are still a couple of bits and pieces to add in and tweak, but you can get the picture of where I am going with this. And before anybody asks for some country's specific version, I am addressing this in the same insane manner as I usually do. A couple of the shots are in 'animation' mode, to show what I did here and there. The rear fuselage vents have six louvers per side (plus flip sides and internals; the overall poly count to add them in was about 360 for the whole model, but they took about four hours to model in; but I think it was time well-spent. I can get away with it because these aircraft didn't carry 6 tons of bombs like the F-4, so the add-in ordnance loads will be a lot more polygon-economical.
So, have fun with this one, and it won't stop my schedule of one package per week until I clear out the modeling closet of 2012 projects; although I have been exceeding that pretty well so far.
MP
