Virtuoso - Thanks alot man for your continuing support & suggest & encouragement through the whole process! 
Really appreciate every word you say! I started looking into white robes with the Council Member ā¦ :wip: ā¦and it seems to work well! Thanks again!
Tranchefeux - Thanks for your support mate! Keep it strong with your project coloring!! :bounce:
SpitFire looks very promising! I would increase speculars of the middl epart of it, to make it more metallic.
Great glow in the engine! is it painted texture, or some 3d trick?
hiā¦i think this ship is looking really cool i love how it looks from the sideā¦nice workā¦
about the council memeberā¦i think youre doing it fineā¦ this guy is going to look even better when he get poedā¦maybe u can cross his arms and cover the gloves with a big sleevesā¦i read some one was suggesting about doing him tallerā¦and i think thats a good ideaā¦
the work on the hair is greatā¦he just need a few details to be fixedā¦i think his posture can give him a lot of personality tooā¦ill be watchin your nice work friendā¦
Great updates m8. You seem to have a great handle on the texturing of this craft. Has a very human feel to it. I will be looking for more, especially since I am stuck watching from the sidelines for the moment, btw if anyone sees Bill Gates in the near future please assassinate his ass for me eh? Damn winblowsitsselfuptomuchtocaregrrrrrrrrr.
The latest update of the Spit is really fantastic manā¦ I love itā¦ maybe more transpancies for the canopyā¦ but if thereās nothing insideā¦ you can keep like thatā¦
today, no 3d for meā¦
Iām just here for only one thingā¦ and certainly the most important for you today ->
I wish you to have a real good fiesta with all your friends and familiyā¦
and for sureā¦ UN JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE DE FRANCE :bounce:
Iām done texturing this one. Iāve changed the specular of the metallic parts and increased the color on the pilot glass (sorryā¦nothing inside!).
I also started working a bit on the FX of this one. Added some lights to fake electric glows on hull, added some emitters on wings and back propulsion and last but not least I played with the mental energy effect around the wings and on the propulsion system. The whole ship is glued and animate-able. Thatās for now! C&C always welcomed 
Thanks everyone!
arturro - Thanks mate! Iāve changed the speculars in the metallic parts as you can seeā¦maybe Iāll do it again when I put this baby in the final sceneā¦The glow is a simple 3DS Max post FX
rattlesnake - Thanks for the support mate! The Council Member is at this point my weakness!! Iām ātweakingā him for some time now and still nothing to show! The final pose is supposed to be rather staticā¦but Iām always open to suggestions! Iāve thought of something more dynamic for him but not for this compā¦ Thanks again!
||) |V| |^| - Thanks man! Hope youāll be back again soon! As for your problem Iād suggest taking a look at SUN submission thread (George Pourikas canāt find a link right now!)ā¦he could give you a fair solution to your Bill Gates problemā¦
Lemog, my friend! Thank you a thousand times! 
Today I spent little time on 3D tooā¦until NOW of course!!
OK,OK thatās for now! Coming later with some updatesā¦ :wavey:
Hi there terraarc!
Whoah, the SpitFire rocks man :buttrock: The new color of the glass is much better, love the glows and the mental energy around the wings, just superb! One crit dough, IMO you should add more bump to the ship textures, cause now its quite flat first view in the picture, but of course its not necisary if you will do the final render without the closeup of the ship.
Thumbs up!
I like the engine emissions but I cannot say that the energy field looks quite right. Something about the shape I think bothers me. Anyway, just my opinion, otherwise it looks awesome man. Happy birthday and keep up the great work.
Hey Mike ,
Your story is very indepth , I will have to read it again . The models all look very good , you have a creative mind. I like the characters as well , I do think that some of the clothing on the characters are too monotone(single color). Try having several colors on one piece of clothing , I think this would help make them look a little more natural.
Again your doing a great job.
Mike
Very nice model, very believable, but Iām wondering whatāre those strange bubble-like things surrounding you ship? Looks really strange to me, but maybe itās because you havenāt finished that part yet.
In any case great work!Cheers!
:buttrock:
great update with SpitFire Mikeā¦! looks very futuristicā¦!
and most importantā¦ maybe itās too late but anyway - Happy Birthday my Friendā¦! 
keep going mate and cheersā¦
ooh! I have to say that with textures your work just entered another level - wonderful! The colors, the athmospheric stuff makes it warm and a bit cartoony. Really nice - I like this a lot :applause:
Hi Mikeā¦Well another step forward,and a nice one.Congrats on the texture job,a very nice job,really nice color choice and the tones work wellā¦Your putting in some great effort and real nice results to go with itā¦Keep it going,your Space opera is coming along real nicelyā¦:arteest:
Here is a second model of the defensive fleet. I like a lot the idea of this ship and I hope the image is quite explenatory. Also included a human figure dummy like a size reference. C&C always welcomed!
Hello to everyone!
Kaksht - Thanks for the support mate! I think Iāll leave some tweaking on the texture for the final imageā¦the time is really a pressure!!
||) |V| |^| - Thanks! Really appreciate your comments. The shape is rather temporal at this moment (basically a simple two sided mesh with a simple material over it and a noise applied to itā¦in case I hit some animation with this baby!!) Iām thinking of using some vertex painting for transparencies aroundā¦to make the shape more blurry and not that defined. Right now itās more like a placeholderā¦Thanks again!
mmoir - Thanks for the encouragement! The character IS some problem to me at this point and itās under a āheavy tweakingā session as I writeā¦appreciate your coloring suggestionā¦Iāll give a shot for sure!!
keetmun - Thanks! The bubbles is a humble start on exaust fumesā¦
ā¦Iāll definetely work more on this āEffectā ā¦thanks for pointing it out!
Paul, thanks for your kind words!!
Gunilla - Thanks mate!
Virtuoso - Thanks for continuous support!! :bounce:
Thanks to all again!! Keep on rockinā CG- talkers!!
quite ironic to associate a butterfly with something that destorys ;p
respect to the extra effort you put in to make the wings functional, very coolā¦
interested to see the textures on thisā¦ would it be anything like a butterfly?
man canāt believe i missed your last update really cool texturing over there i like it a lot
and the butterfly bomber rocks awesome:thumbsup:
you are on the right track here keep em coming:bounce:
Great update man. I love the step by step post of the butterfly. You can see that doing a work in progress this manor takes a bit of extra time eh? Hence the reason I had to stop for a bit to get some mad modeling done. It seems you have been quite busy working on great stuff. I look forward to seeing more as the days creap on forward and closer to the finish line.
Very nice indeed. The step by step is coolā¦ Are you planning on having several in the render in different phases of āflappingā?