Cobra MkIII 1/125 scale model

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:31 pm

twitter.com/frontierdev wrote:
Cobra MK III spotted in the office.. 1/125th in scale, not quite big enough to sit inside, but still good

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:06 am

Nice!
I had no idea the laser jutted out like that.
You would think it would be vunerable and get damaged more than it does.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:10 am

Wow, that's beautiful! did you make that JazHaz?

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:34 pm

Griff wrote:
Wow, that's beautiful! did you make that JazHaz?

No, as the quote said, it's in the Frontier Developments office.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:37 pm

i didn't even notice that quote

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:48 pm

Interesting details on the model though Griff. Funnily enough though I think your model looks even better!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:18 pm

it's a lovely model, but i hope that's not how they're going to texture it for Elite 4, it looks like it's made out of bits from a castle wall. I can't wait to see what the Frontier artists come up with for Elite 4, i'm convinced that Braben and his team are going to make a masterpiece with that game, he knows what he's doing, as an aside, i read that the next issue of retrogamer (not the one in the shops now) is going to have something about him in it, might not be Elite related though, could be about that virus2000 game he made.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:29 pm

Dunno... it could well be from Elite IV.. I've enlarged the Firebird and touched up the gamma a little, and it doesn't look quite like any Elite logo I've seen before.. similar yes, but that head doesn't look quite right to me.. see what you think.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:37 pm

hmm, that looks like the 25th Aniversary logo, i wonder if this is the trophy for the 'draw a spaceship' competition they ran recently?

Raytheon · Post by **Raytheon** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:26 pm

Greetings all,
That would be the one I made for someone at Frontier Developments.
The dimensions were taken from a paper model, transferred to plastic sheet and then built on from there.

The Firebird is a painted metal casting, it's been mentioned in one of the threads on this forum.

I have no idea if it's going to be used for anything, I just build 'em and that's about it

Go easy all.

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:33 pm

Have you built any others, I wonder?

P.S. You just know that gun's going to snap off, right?

Loxley · Post by **Loxley** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:39 pm

That's some good work there Raytheon.
Did you make it recently? (might give us a clue as to what's currently on Braben's mind).

edited to add: Check out Raytheon's website for lots more images of this fantastic model.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:47 pm

Raytheon wrote:
Greetings all,
That would be the one I made for someone at Frontier Developments.

Nice! And welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat!™

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:47 pm

And of course : "Welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat(tm)" as nobody else has mentioned it...

Nice model - as others have said...

(and secretly they're all thinking, "I wonder how much he charges?"

)

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:50 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
as nobody else has mentioned it...

Sorry, I beat you to it!