KESTREL

By FAR my favorite model to have been made whilst working on my final college project! There's so much that I love about it already but what I find exciting is the prospect of going back later (once again) and adding more functionality through things such as landing gear, missile pods that retract or drop down and maybe ailerons!

THINGS ID CHANGE

Cargo bay: 110% I'd change the cargo drop-bay to be a ramp that drops at a slant instead of the straight drop-down variant, it looks strange and takes away from the rest of the model imo (it does retract, see blender ver)

Shark Teeth: The texture is a little stretched and cast across areas it shouldn't be so I'd work a little longer on that with higher precision.

Rail-guns: there's a lack of functionality in the Railguns that I'd like to correct by adding a recoil absorption system, wires and the likes.

More details: Things such as panels, vents and textures for warning symbols, Sci-fy military corps and more.

SUMMARY

I'm SUPER pleased with this as I feel it was the culmination of all the things I had learned thus far when working on my latest project and had incorporated a lot of the techniques and new found methods I had picked up from each model before it! I personally find it's style really pleasing and as an added bonus I feel it looks somewhat plausible in it's areo-dynamics, out of all my CTOC: LEGACY Models this is the one I want to create a separate version to overhaul the most! Lastly, I love it the most also because I find it has the best showcase of my progress in the year I've been using blender the most in a clear and obvious way. The model in the comparison was my 3rd or fourth model ever in any software and at the time I was *super* proud of myself, it's quite humbling to look back on it now and realise, yeah it was trash - and wonder if one day I might look back on the Kestrel and think the same... An Exciting Thought :)

Also, yes it's animated, but in unreal, might post that later!