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Yes I know there are smoothing errors but I'll squash them later, I want to finish the geometry first.
Opinions?

It feels like you're attempting to portray low poly through a high poly model, is this what you're going for?

How long have you been creating models and what are you using, I'm curious.

I hold judgement until I see it with wire edges, but it looks good.

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HOLY SHIT THE FUCKING OVERLAPPING VERTICiES AND FLOATING VERTICIES AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH WHAT DID YOU DO

Cool, lets see it textured when its done.

Lavarinth wrote: It feels like you're attempting to portray low poly through a high poly model, is this what you're going for?

How long have you been creating models and what are you using, I'm curious.

No, it's just as good as I can do so far. I started modeling a long time ago but I never really focused on it and all my previous stuff was basically lego-like stuff, I mostly did 90 and 45 degree corners everywhere.

Using Blender, I tried Max and LW but I don't feel comfortable with them.

WB wrote: I hold judgement until I see it with wire edges, but it looks good.

The guns under the wings are a separate object, but they are not interesecting with the wings, they have hardpoints made for them under the wing where they fit in. I plan to do more weaponry options for this fighter.

Here's some edit mode pics of the main body for you to see:

[imgwh 640x389]http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2046/10758010.png[/imgwh]

[imgwh 640x294]http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1574/33512063.png[/imgwh]

[imgwh 640x394]http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4519/94486764.png[/imgwh]

[imgwh 640x485]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7936/28983904.png[/imgwh]

[imgwh 640x492]http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7366/50493933.png[/imgwh]

Have you attempted to smooth it? I'm wondering what kind of result would occur with some of your methods.

The result is what you see in the render, actually the viewport with smoothing lacks the few little glitches there are.

For starters, model in quads and not triangles - it's faster, cleaner, and much lower poly. About 75% of those edges could be removed with virtually no impact on the model's looks. But converting to quads would fix it up as it is.

I model in Quads i just converted em to tris for these wire pics.

Glad you model in quads, in the future, wire pic = no tris please, tris just muddle it up and we lost site of how your edges flow. IE, too much shit on screen.

Engines already convert every quad into a triangle, so have quads and converting to tris doesnt actually add to the actual poly count as far as a game engine is concerned. But it is a mess to work with.

Anyway, it seems you don't have a lot of wasted polies, except near the front. You can totally make tat gun a seperate mesh not attached to the mesh of the ship. It would simplify the topography of the front.

This is more of an adventrue in modelling I integrated it just to see if I can manage it, and yes, the front is full of wastage.

Just a sidenote about quads vs tris: A model imported into Zbrush will need to be composed of quads for it to work properly.

Have you tried removing any of the faces over by the front?  The mesh is pointlessly fine (a pun!).

I'm no expert, but it looks really cool. A bit like those origami art thingies, but that's not necessarily a bad thing!

What you gonna use it for? A mod? Or was it just for fun?