The Ho-229 is also on my list of things to try to transform, though a straight Invader/Zaubergeran/Pheyos/Quedlunn Alma clone is out, for the same reasons I'm doing an original WW2 setting instead of Macross, though it probably will end up with a vaguely similar "I'm wearing a big cape" robot form appearance, if only because there's not much else to do with that mid-wing engine, flying wing shape. I am going to try to avoid having bendy engines, but there might not be another good option. I'm also de-aging my Raven stealth bomber to a more era-appropriate form (and passive stealth is irrelevant anyway when detection and missile guidance is via psychic powers, not to mention impossible in modes with arms and legs hanging out all over the place) to be a late-game new wartime technology design. Basically this means giving it eliptical wings and evening out some of the jaggy panel lines, adding a bubble turret or two, and putting plain glass on the cockpit instead of the gold-tinted radar foiling stuff.
If I do end up with bendy engines, the intakes will be in hooray-for-boobies position rather than perched on top of the shoulders...
The other OTL designs on my list are:
* L-133 (fit into number scheme as P-58)
* Fw190 (will be an ugly hunchback, but there's little choice with a single engine tractor propeller plane)
* V2 (-ish variable rocket, modified from my original Plumbata by removing the portholes and Reich-ing up the insignia. Probably will be renamed S2 for "Sieg" - "Victory" - unless the vengeance is directed at the aliens for the orbital bombardment when they showed up. That does beg the question of what the Sieg-1 would be, though.)
* J7W1/W2 (images/video clip posted previously)
* Ushakov LPL (truly an all environment threat!)
* HiMAT unmanned research vehicle with the avionics/telemetry bay enlarged into an F-20/X-29 style cockpit and nose (another late-game development, during the "gear up to dislodge the alien fleet" stage.)
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
If I do end up with bendy engines, the intakes will be in hooray-for-boobies position rather than perched on top of the shoulders...
The other OTL designs on my list are:
* L-133 (fit into number scheme as P-58)
* Fw190 (will be an ugly hunchback, but there's little choice with a single engine tractor propeller plane)
* V2 (-ish variable rocket, modified from my original Plumbata by removing the portholes and Reich-ing up the insignia. Probably will be renamed S2 for "Sieg" - "Victory" - unless the vengeance is directed at the aliens for the orbital bombardment when they showed up. That does beg the question of what the Sieg-1 would be, though.)
* J7W1/W2 (images/video clip posted previously)
* Ushakov LPL (truly an all environment threat!)
* HiMAT unmanned research vehicle with the avionics/telemetry bay enlarged into an F-20/X-29 style cockpit and nose (another late-game development, during the "gear up to dislodge the alien fleet" stage.)
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows