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3dgladiators is back

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Yes 3dgladiators is back and is relaunching for new voyages, that right for those who remember this old cgi modeling forum is now back up, I was again in touch after a long time with Darrell, after a rough year has is now able to focus on the forum..

On site he writes:
“After a disastrous last year plus, 3DG is back! It’s under a slightly different domain now (.net instead of .com), so update links/bookmarks!

The .com domain was lost due to being unable to renew it at the time. But that’s just as well… We’re more of a network anyways!”

Hope to see some old faces return, Blogs are all well and good but its lacks the community feel.

http://www.3dgladiators.net/forums/

Buck Rogers In the 25th Century “The Starfighter’

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Buck Rogers Starfighter

Another of Ralph McQuarrie designs

A great design, rumour has it that the design was not originally intended for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century staring Gil Gerard and Erin Gray, but for the Glen Larson earlier production, the famous and fabulous  classic series Battlestar Galactica (1978) as the Viper. I am glad they went with that BSG Viper design and the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century inherited this great and I think a more suitable design for Buck Rogers, there is a cross-over day dream I had since the 1980s to this very day.

© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080
© Gerard Duffy, Image Size 1920 × 1080

star-fighter-montage
Starfighter: a 2 seater design
Interesting information I found is that the builders at Universal-Heartland did call this design the Thunder-fighter but if I remember rightly it was going to be called a Starfury and I called the altered design that is seen in the episode “Happy Birthday Buck”

quad-fighter-montage
Quadfighter: a four setter design
I see this almost as a family saloon, but I could see where the need for a larger design people carrier was called for.

traeger-fighter-montageTraeger fighter:a 2 seater
This design only seen once in the Buck Rogers episode called “Happy Birthday, Buck”, for some reason the name Thunder-Fighter suits this design more than the original ship seen
But it stayed in the collective memory of the viewers at the time, I know it did in my mind and what I liked is the extra wings and the built up area forward of the cockpit, gives a complete look to the design and it’s just cool 🙂 by no means perfect.