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MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 22 Oct 2010, 12:42

Here's another big creation for my animation, it's "ALF1" the Aerial Landing Field.

@Marcel

Said you were close when you guessed that I would make a landing field on the Ka-17.

marcel · Post by **marcel** » 22 Oct 2010, 13:17

what do you want to do with all these plane? can you speak more about your animation project?

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 22 Oct 2010, 13:20

Hmn... well since it's not really such a big thing, I suppose I can tell.

It is going to be an animation where the Gladiators take of from ALF1 and attack the Flying Tanks. I'm making it as a learning experience since I'm not entirely sure how to make everything and it will be fun to find out.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 22 Oct 2010, 14:26

Current status of ALF1, nearly finished, that means I can almost start animating.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 22 Oct 2010, 19:36

ALF1 Finished

Actually "ALF" was an idea I got when I was browsing the web for other pictures of the Ka-17 Flying Tank, on one website I found this old page from a 1930's science magazine which had an airship quite similar to this one. It was supposed to be solar-driven and have a hangar bay and air field where planes could land and refuel. I'm not sure if anyone actually build this thing for real but it was a nice idea to go by.

I'm therefore very happy with the result even though the shape is as ugly as a dead baboon on a very warm summer day.

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MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 22 Oct 2010, 19:45

If you don't like it that I post images from another source, please say so, it's my mistake then and I will remove it at once

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 04 Nov 2010, 20:16

what do you mean "another source"?

like the idea, wasn't there some real prototypes like these built? I know they had plans hanging from hooks along the bottom sides on real airships but don't know if they had an actual landing strip built in... nice

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 04 Nov 2010, 20:26

theuns wrote:what do you mean "another source"?

I meant that I didn't upload this to the 3d United Artists Forum but that I used Photobucket instead, I did that because then I can upload larger images.

Also, I don't think this kind of design was ever built for real, however I do remember a scene in Indiana Jones, the Last Crusader where they escape using an aircraft hanging from under an airship

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 04 Nov 2010, 20:41

don't worry about the images being from another source, that doesn't matter at all...

Indiana Jones, that's probably where I saw it as well... would be awesome if they did build something like that, but it would probably have to be at the bottom of it for balancing reasons, like the flight pods on the Battlestar Galactica!

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 04 Nov 2010, 20:47

Yeah, I love BSG. I've thought about redoing my Viper MK 4 I built when I just started 3d modeling, I'm sure I could make something much better out of it now.

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 04 Nov 2010, 20:58

Looks good

Let me know if you do some writing and want to join our BSG style RPG SIMM, been writing for it since 2000 and still going strong

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 04 Nov 2010, 21:02

Awesome, can you tell me a bit more about that project? Have you got a website or forum? that would be totally cool!

theuns · Post by **theuns** » 04 Nov 2010, 21:07

Sure, the home page is http://www.battlestarhelios.com" and the actual story bits is run through a yahoo mail group... it is basically a group of writers who each make up a character that is part of the Battlestar Helios crew and they write for their character and "tag" (prompt) other playing characters to interact with, like a dialogue... so the story unfolds as a collaborative effort between several writers... lots of fun

I've even started some 3D models for the story group but haven't finished then yet... at the moment, the Cylons have invaded the star system that he surviving colonials had colonized for a decade now and the Battlestars are on the run again

Anyways, check it out for yourself...

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 04 Nov 2010, 21:14

Sounds cool, I'll take a look at the site

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