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Here's some cool drawings I found, featuring Mi-24 Hind in NATO liveries! (More here)
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Air and Space Photos from Alternate Worlds.
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Here's some cool drawings I found, featuring Mi-24 Hind in NATO liveries! (More here)
Some more:
That's about as convincing as a US aircraft as the F-5 is a Russian one.
If the USCG did adopt the Mi-24, they would probably take off the chain gun and replace it with an IRST TV camera.
I like how the MiG in Top Gun is supposed to be this super highly-maneuverable fighter jet, but when you look at it, you can clearly see that its control surfaces are very small.
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No need, it has one. And the gun would be perfect vs smugglers and drug runners!
Japanese Mi-29, from a deviant artist that has dozens of alternate worlds models
http://ws-clave.deviantart.com/art/Fantasy-824-MiG-29A-Japan-631075628
(tried to post directly but couldn't, for some reason...)
No need, it has one. And the gun would be perfect vs smugglers and drug runners!
Japanese Mi-29, from a deviant artist that has dozens of alternate worlds models
http://ws-clave.deviantart.com/art/Fantasy-824-MiG-29A-Japan-631075628
(tried to post directly but couldn't, for some reason...)
Communist Japan?
A quick drawing of a Republic-class Star Destroyer, which the Galactic Republic uses during the Clone Wars in my Star Wars prequel rewrite. This is probably the only ship I'm going to make, since the rest are either totally new designs or modifications of the OT designs. The Republic-class Star Destroyers were the ones that I couldn't really picture in my head, since the Republic has a raygun gothic theme to them, but the Star Destroyer is famously angular. So, I decided to draw it.
I am reading this book now, and just got to the part where the Ares patch is described. It is clearly an alternate version, it is a triangle with gold border. Sounds a bit like the STS Program patch. I may need to design this one.
These are some pics I'm working on for a friend of mine La Rouge Beret who's planning on doing a TL about COBRA (the one from G.I. Joe) setting up shop in the 1950s. The TL will be in the ASB forum and my friend requested some aircraft with a sci-fi look to them, ITTL COBRA has many former Axis personal in their ranks including scientist, engineers and of course military personal.
COBRA also has acquired some alien tech from a UFO and my friend told me to have some fun with the designs, make em look cool in other words but we still want them to be plausible designs (well somewhat plausible). I decided what could be more fun than mixing Hollywood sci-fi with Luft.-46?
Here is the first design, its a Horton Ho-229 with the engine nacelles from a Cylon raider of Battle Star Galactica.
I'm thinking of calling this plane the Viper.
This plane started off as the Focke Wulf Fw-1000 and I all I did was try to make it look a little sleeker and I also added a third engine. To the right is the OTL design.
I'm thinking of calling this one the Quetza after Quetzalcoatl the winged serpent god of the Aztecs.
This next plane is a redesigned Horton Ho-8, a late war design that was never built. I've again added the engines from the Cylon raider but I've redrawn them a little and each nacelle holds two engines, a cargo-troop transport trans sonic plane in the same class as the C 17 Globemaster.
I've added the multi wheel landing gear of an Arado Ar-232 transport plane because COBRA will be using this plane where needed and that can be in some very rough terrain on ad hoc airfields.
this plane will be called the Anaconda, Annie for short.
None of these designs have been finalized, I have no engineering skills and I'm not half the designer that "Just Leo" is but even though these planes are for an ASB TL both La Rouge Beret and I would like them to be somewhat realistic and so I would like to request of you good people who peruse this thread to give me any advice, suggestions or constructive criticism for these designs. I especially would like to hear suggestions regarding the Anaconda, I think it'll play a big part in the TL and I and the author would like this one to be as plausible as possible.
I thank you for any help you folks have to offer in advance.
COBRA also has acquired some alien tech from a UFO and my friend told me to have some fun with the designs, make em look cool in other words but we still want them to be plausible designs (well somewhat plausible
). I decided what could be more fun than mixing Hollywood sci-fi with Luft.-46? Here is the first design, its a Horton Ho-229 with the engine nacelles from a Cylon raider of Battle Star Galactica.
I'm thinking of calling this plane the Viper.
This plane started off as the Focke Wulf Fw-1000 and I all I did was try to make it look a little sleeker and I also added a third engine. To the right is the OTL design.
I'm thinking of calling this one the Quetza after Quetzalcoatl the winged serpent god of the Aztecs.
This next plane is a redesigned Horton Ho-8, a late war design that was never built. I've again added the engines from the Cylon raider but I've redrawn them a little and each nacelle holds two engines, a cargo-troop transport trans sonic plane in the same class as the C 17 Globemaster.
I've added the multi wheel landing gear of an Arado Ar-232 transport plane because COBRA will be using this plane where needed and that can be in some very rough terrain on ad hoc airfields.
this plane will be called the Anaconda, Annie for short.
None of these designs have been finalized, I have no engineering skills and I'm not half the designer that "Just Leo" is but even though these planes are for an ASB TL both La Rouge Beret and I would like them to be somewhat realistic and so I would like to request of you good people who peruse this thread to give me any advice, suggestions or constructive criticism for these designs. I especially would like to hear suggestions regarding the Anaconda, I think it'll play a big part in the TL and I and the author would like this one to be as plausible as possible.
I thank you for any help you folks have to offer in advance.
The Viper certainly looks the goods, as does the Quetza and Annie!
Looking forward to reading others thoughts.
Looking forward to reading others thoughts.
Of the few aircraft I've done, the Viper is my favorite. Too bad Claymore doesn't do aircraft models.
Of the few aircraft I've done, the Viper is my favorite. Too bad Claymore doesn't do aircraft models.
Have you asked him? It might pique his interest...
He said he used to do airplane models back in the day but doesn't find them interesting anymore or something like that.
The first Soviet space shuttle launches. This is the title card for the first chapter of my new timeline, The Snow Flies. Lots more images to follow with future updates!
Could something like the Mobula from Guns of Icarus theoretically exist?
http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Mobula
I'm not suggesting a victorian tech level per say, but im talking about some kind of air ship which has the balloon on the bottom of the ship rather than the top?
http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Mobula
I'm not suggesting a victorian tech level per say, but im talking about some kind of air ship which has the balloon on the bottom of the ship rather than the top?
Depends on how buoyant the lifting gas is and how heavy the ship is.
Could something like the Mobula from Guns of Icarus theoretically exist?
http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Mobula
I'm not suggesting a victorian tech level per say, but im talking about some kind of air ship which has the balloon on the bottom of the ship rather than the top?
I would say rather improbable, it has to do with the center of gravity.
all that mass on top makes the center of gravity rather high, and this CoG wants to be as low as possible, so it has a tendency of tipping over.
like the swedes in otl found out with the Wasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)