05/18/2021 – Between another member of the Freespace community’s comments about the Achilles’ big belly weapons bay and my collaborator on the Warmachine project wishing he could have more small missiles, I took a brief detour to make another weapons system for it. Freespace Open can only support four different secondary weapons equipped to a craft, so that meant that with two different sets of stanchions for the heavy missiles, and the big belly gunpod, there was only one ‘bank’ available for lighter missiles. My collaborator would rather have preferred an option for more of the lighter swarm missiles at times, so we got to talking – what about a giant missile pod? A few days later and I’ve whipped it up successfully. Below is a render with the weapon equipped in its belly hardpoint (click for full resolution).
Click here to be view this model on p3d, and click here to see the missile bay amongst all the other weapons created for this fighter.
There’s also been some progress on the project I’d like to be focused on currently, the Kushan Ion Frigate (click for full resolution).
A number of issues with perspective on the initial sketch have dragged things to a slowdown, but there will be more progress and details to show off soon! You can see on the belly module there’s faintly visible an intricately modeled hatch I’m looking forward to getting textured, and the bridge module is feeling quite close to how I imagined it. The firing assembly at the nose still needs work of course, but for now it’s making progress.