Forum: MarketPlace Showcase


Subject: FA-40 Futuristic Aircraft Designed by Spook and THK

iw43d opened this issue on Feb 08, 2004 ยท 22 posts


Questor posted Sat, 14 February 2004 at 8:06 PM

Well, gosh. Amazing what you find sometimes isn't it? I shouldn't think Spook would be making the poser version available seeing as he paid to have it converted and doesn't have permission to redistribute the model. I certainly won't be making the 3ds version available anytime soon. It was for a while on my website but after having found one industrious wanker selling one of my movie related models for 250 dollars I decided that'd be the end of it. I am making another version - as Pam has said the first one is so poly heavy it's like a lead brick - but that will most likely be for my use only. As for the accusations in this thread, I find them unfortunate. Yes the FA-40 loosely "resembles" the hammerhead. It doesn't however, take much imagination to pick out the very obvious differences. Even in the second image posted as "proof" (which was my SA43) there are some major differences obvious in the model from the x-scaling through the nose winglets to the external hardstorage, lack of nose cannon, tailfins, engine intake differences, cockpit design etc etc. The one by IW43 more of a cross between an FA22, F14 and SA43. Not to mention of course that the SA43 is not equipped with Helfires or AMRAAM's or external fuel tanks. But never mind. I gave Spook and IW43 permission to create a one off poserised version of my model (which wasn't originally created with Poser in mind). To the best of my knowledge that's precisely what they did. I've been perfectly happy that the FA40 is a different plane altogether and no doubt the creators of SAAB would be happy to acknowledge that as well. So, similarities in concept aside it's quite patently a different model.