if anyone is interested, i'm working on a moray-native version of the
xwing.  so far i have the wings with everything on them and the front
landing gear.  next will be the rear landing gear, then the top detail
where r2 hangs out and then the rear most detail of the fuselage.  as
for the fuselage, the compound curves are giving me trouble.  i think i
may have to use 3dsmax at school for that.  i'd rather not, so if anyone
has suggestions how to do it in moray i'd love to know.  parts of the
fuselage look like simple plane-cuts from a block, but they aren't.  the
nose cone is especially tricky in moray.  if anyone would like to see a
pic of it (it really is good so far.  in fact, it is my goal to make it
better than the one at the swma site that they had up for a long time. 
i'm using a dial calipers on the model kit, and i have about 25 big
pictures from the studio models from when they were in the smithsonian. 
final detail decisions are made according to the life-size version in
the movies.  it's surprising how much the many models don't match.) 
there are no textures yet.  that will be last.  i'll be adding IK to the
sfoils, landing gear, cockpit conopy, and storage hatch- maybe even an
r2 unit lifter.  modelling so far has been easy but time consuming.  the
textures are going to kill me.  i'm going to try and not use image
mapping.  that way, a fleet of xwings won't be identical.  if i have to
use a mesh, i'll csg->intersect it with a big block so that it will be
solid and can be exploded with various explosion inc files.

Psychomek wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone.
>     Just letting you know that i am working on a Star Wars image for my
> wallpaper and as soon as i can i will post in in the Binary images ng.
> so far it is over 90 MB in includes... (Meshes... YIKES!)
> 
> Will Include:
> 9 Speed bikes with riders
> 1 Tie Fighter
> 1 Victory Class Concept design Ship
> 1 AT Walker (not in yet)
> 
> when posted please give me feed back...

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