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From: Francois Labreque
Date: 2 Feb 2001 09:51:25
Message: <3A7AC8C0.E87AFDA8@videotron.ca>
PatchWerk wrote:
> 
> I don't know if anyone remembers this show, but it was a major part of my
> childhood.

Yes.

I was snooping on the Blender site earlier this week and there's a
radiosity tutorial that uses a Cylon raider as its model, what a
coinky-dink!

> Anyways, I found some technical drawings of the Viper, which I
> scanned and loaded into Moray as background images, and am modelling around
> those. This is my first attempt at doing anything in that manner, and here
> is the fruit of my first nine hours. All Image and Bump maps were created
> from scratch in Paint Shop Pro 7. Feedback greatly appreciated. I will post
> again around the 10th, by which date I may have found time enough to add
> wings, cannon, finish the engines, and maybe even try to tackle doing a
> pilot.
> 
>  [Image]

From what I remember (it was showing in re-runs, here before Christmas)
the nose is squarer and there should be a lot more baffles on your
engines.

-- 
Francois Labreque | The surest sign of the existence of extra-
    flabreque     | terrestrial intelligence is that they never
        @         | bothered to come down here and visit us!
  videotron.ca                                  - Calvin


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