RFC: Phoid Punkin ...
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:57 am
Sometimes the pop SF influence is so in my face it crawls up my nose and burrows into my brain. OTOH: I sometimes need a break from my vain attempts at originality...
I have seen the Star Wars OXP - and may I say with frank admiration - the models are awful! It is amazing how one can be literally true to the theme and still create a pack so horrible that I pluck the image dripping from my still living brain.
But wait: if I am going to so roundly condemn someone elses loving labors, I should be prepared to do better myself... not to say, when attempting to describe what is actually wrong with the effort, I start to imagine modelling the dratted things myself.
Note: I have not created an OXP. I have not attempted to reproduce the SW ships ... b'sides, a faithfully reproduced tie-fighter is just too amdayed small for oolite.
I've dubbed this set "Phoyd Craft" and whomped them together when I was supposed to be plisting some sharks. Here's the images - my question for the RFC is: is it worth plisting them into an oxp? Which style is better?
Pics - Phoyd Interceptor, and Phoyd Punkin ... the latter is the former upside-down. Strikes me that the punkin may just be worth putting in he game...
The model is:
20x20x16m (LxWxH)
The sphere is 8m diameter
The bridge is 6m wide, 4m high, and 2m deep. Pilot sits in a chair bolted to a wall.
(Note - small model for Oolite, but big for a TIE Interceptor.)
There's also a phoyd X1 and a phoyd Fighter, not pictured. I'm only going to skin the one thanks.
I mean - I guess it is possible to restrict them to ulta-high-tech places, and script them to be launched by lots... and I am not flaming making a Death Star!
Hmmm... a star destroyer... warns player off, and launches fighters.
I have seen the Star Wars OXP - and may I say with frank admiration - the models are awful! It is amazing how one can be literally true to the theme and still create a pack so horrible that I pluck the image dripping from my still living brain.
But wait: if I am going to so roundly condemn someone elses loving labors, I should be prepared to do better myself... not to say, when attempting to describe what is actually wrong with the effort, I start to imagine modelling the dratted things myself.
Note: I have not created an OXP. I have not attempted to reproduce the SW ships ... b'sides, a faithfully reproduced tie-fighter is just too amdayed small for oolite.
I've dubbed this set "Phoyd Craft" and whomped them together when I was supposed to be plisting some sharks. Here's the images - my question for the RFC is: is it worth plisting them into an oxp? Which style is better?
Pics - Phoyd Interceptor, and Phoyd Punkin ... the latter is the former upside-down. Strikes me that the punkin may just be worth putting in he game...
The model is:
20x20x16m (LxWxH)
The sphere is 8m diameter
The bridge is 6m wide, 4m high, and 2m deep. Pilot sits in a chair bolted to a wall.
(Note - small model for Oolite, but big for a TIE Interceptor.)
There's also a phoyd X1 and a phoyd Fighter, not pictured. I'm only going to skin the one thanks.
I mean - I guess it is possible to restrict them to ulta-high-tech places, and script them to be launched by lots... and I am not flaming making a Death Star!
Hmmm... a star destroyer... warns player off, and launches fighters.