Julhelm

If you don't have a problem showering with nude guys in school, you shouldn't have a problem with nude models.

Btw one of the best things you can do in order to really evolve your skill is take a course or two in croqi (sp?) - ie drawing from a live nude model.

You really need to think more in terms of volumes. Build the drawings up with skeleton/mannikin frame etc instead of going for the outlines. Essential reading would be the Structure of Man DVD's and the books of Andrew Loomis.

lol

That looks good.

Cool! What do the labels translate to? I suppose that the little tape bars at the bottom are temp/fuel related and the dials above are tachometers?

Yeah, that's the one. If you could tell me which stuff is which and how it's labeled it'd be of great help :)

Also there is the whole issue of national prestige that sort of disappeared once the Soviets had been beaten to the Moon. Without the space race as it evolved, I personally do not believe we would have ever seen the level of funding that enabled NASA to land men on the moon. Now, if I were in charge, I'd just cut down on the US military budget and pour that into funding the space program instead - the potential technological benefits are immense.

You could design it with retracting wings like the Rockwell Surprise Fighter.

Well, we'll have to ask C5 about this as he has done the FM.

Patch your game.

Here in Sweden, in 99.9% of all murders involving firearms, it's a matter of rival criminals killing eachother, and those do not count because they are by definition not law-abiding gun owners. I suspect it is about the same in the US.

You would think so given the similarities at first glance, but you do realise the Tu-160 stems from the Myasischev M-18 design from 1969, right? Seriously, look at all the different configurations that were studied for the B-1 and compare that to how all the various SST designs ended up looking virtually the same (Concorde, Tu-144, L2000, Boeing SST) and it should not be surprising that the same set of stringent requirements would result in very similar design solutions: That I won't argue with you about, given how detail-for-detail it is.

Veltro hasn't released his bear yet. Looking forward to it.

Not true - In fact neither Greg Goebel nor Tony Buttler confirm that assumption, so it'd be interesting to see if anyone can come up with better claims as to why the SU-25 is a copy of the A-9 other than the somewhat similar layout (which totally ignores how the original T-8 design and mockup showed a much smaller machine).

You're really improving in terms of texturing. What resolution are you working in?

Why lump the Su-25 in with the others?

Are we ever going to see something interesting like a cockpit shot or some closer environmental detail? These shots just look like fancy renders to me.

The BBC India, f*** Yeah!

I believe Oswald was just a lone nutjob, like Johan Anckarström or J.W Boothe.

Also note all that black texture space wasted for no reason. Ploppy's map is a hell of a lot more efficient.

I've made one for my gunship but it has tons of idiosyncracies making it rather difficult to fly. Is anybody masochist enough for the task?

It'd be nice with a couple more lakes/coastlines to perhaps support some limited carrier ops. Perhaps one side would start from a carrier taskforce and a simple beachhead?