Mercurius: Armament

I've at least managed to get the basics of the legs and armament in place. But the original designs look so generic that probably adding some detail is in order. The beam gun is a stripped down ore-gun weapon while the shield is an in-place shield gun from the Leo.

Mercurius/Vayeate: Waist

Placeholder waist section in the same way the arms are added. Mostly it looks similar to the Tallgeese as I'm sure the series meant it to do so. But with some changes here and there, really minor stuff.

Mercurius/Vayeate: Arms

Some placeholder arms based on Tallgeese. I may need to work on the elbow armor to round it out a bit and turn on the smoothing.

Mercurius/Vayeate: Body 2

Made some compromises regarding the detail and what the Tallgeese brings to get the general shapes. At this point the only difference between Mercurius and Vayeate is the fin on the head.

Mercurius/Vayeate: Body

Struggling to get the Tallgeese body to work with the more generic looking Mercurius/Vayeate. I feel like these two were Tallgeese ideas for wing that the producers didn't like, but worked out as two other high power suits instead.

Mercurius / Vayeate : Head 1

Willing to see how far we can take Tallgeese's basic forms into other MS's in the Wing timeline so starting on modifying the Tallgeese head to fit some of the Mer/Vay flow.

Landing War Ship: 2

Working on it sparringly still. I have few clues only as to what the full thing looks like so lots of liberties are being taken.

Altron: Dragon Fang

It's basically a palette swap in some ways.I have no idea if there's actually supposed to be a shield there. I remember the original Altron having the shield, through.

Altron Custom: Dragon Fang

I suppose that only one has to be built for this to work. I wanted to move on a bit but to say that the Altron is "done" is a smaller task than starting an new suit or scene over again.

Landing Warship Start

Another different attempt at a transport carrier for Wing.

Leo: Flight Pack

I like the idea of the extensibility of the Leo. I feel like an MG Leo and some extra packs should be something that Bandai pumps out eventually. For now this is just a set of educated guesses.

Leo: Flight Pack

Working on a flight pack for the Leo with good old internet pics, but with a less unibody look, if possible. I don't think I ever really thought about these packs for the leo when watching the tv show so long ago, but I'm surprised at the extensibility of these suits, despite how easily they blow up in the anime.

Shenlong: Trident

So finally jammed the trident back there, though I'm not sure this is exactly how it's "supposed" to be positioned.

Shenlong: Mostly

A bit more on the dragon fang and some texturing stuff is in place. I'll need to probably bump the render settings a bit, but I also forgot to make the beam trident.

Shenlong: Shield

I think the details of the shield maybe need to have better pop as some of the lines are blurred or covered by distance. And still the dragon fang needs a bit of tuning.

Shenlong: Dragon Fang 2

So instead of having the claw fold backward, it keeps the forward slant but uses the Altron Custom leash instead of either of the original Shenlong/altron extended arms. Not sure how I feel about how it turned out yet. Maybe sub the chain bits with "arm" bits.

Shenlong: Dragon Fang 'Custom'

I'm torn: I absolutely love the Katoki Hajime asthetic of the Shenlong/Altron, the lack of reach on the Shenlong concept kills the reach of the ms in general. I feel like if this was the retconn, then a lot of the capability in the original animation just wouldn't be possible. So I'm looking at adding similar reach to the dragon fang by adding the length of the head similar to the Altron. This is because while the original Shenlong has a long right arm folded under the shoulder guard, I feel like the Katoki asthetic may be too violated by reverting to that. We'll see.

Shenlong: Legs

Feels a bit off, but still working on some of the details for the legs. Feeling like I should update the old wing model for this.

Shenlong: Arms

I feel like Katoki can be really no-nonsense when it comes to arm design in general. I feel like there's a lot of similarity to the Unicorn in these ones. But I suppose "an arm is an arm" as well.

MS Carrier

Trying to do something a wee different by not working on an MS.

Shenlong: Arms 1

Shoulder join guards are generally there. I've forgotten how tricky these curvy hard surface modeling objects can be.

Shenlong: Waist

Mostly have the waist in but realized I've forgotten to finish the bits of the chest that I wanted to detail.

Shenlong: Body 2

Still needs more detail, but it's coming kinda together. Some smoothing issues as well.

Shenlong: Body 1

I haven't visited a Wing based torso in a while but they mostly seem similar (wing / shenlong). Want to see what happens when adding some extra geometry to beef it up.

Shenlong: Head

Mostly still the Katoki version in progress. Some bits added just for more dragon. Maybe add scales? Probably too far though.

Shenlong (Katoki ver): Head 1

Figured the Aries needs something else to go against. Already have 3 antagonist MS for Wing, may as well add some protagonists. I feel like there are a ton of great looking Shenlong's in 3d so I'll throw my hat in as well. Quick start of the head.

Leo: Space Pack

I'm pretty sure the color is not to anime schema so I'll be adjusting that. Surely it needs more work on the backpack proper as well since there isn't much detail there that I was able to discern from the Katoki design.

Aries: Space Laser

From anime images I have no idea where the trigger is to the space laser.. Possibly on the right side where the Shenlong seems to grip "something".

Aries: Space Laser

I don't think it's an official weapon for Aries, but the laser is (attempted to be) used by two Aries at least once in the Wing series -- so giving it a go.

Aries: Basic Surface

Wanted to try out different weapon versions but was wondering about what to do on the surface, so started to fiddle with that.

Aries: Transform

Added hardpoints on the legs, added the weapons and tried to work on the transform. Working on the surfacing at the same time.

Aries: Legs

Legs are based on a mishmash of the tallgees' boosters and thinner leo lower legs and feet. I'm fairly sure the lower legs are supposed to collapse into the upper section in flight.

Aries: Body

Using Freedom a bit to help with the body and the tallgeese arms and general geometry as body/torso placeholders while trying to iron out the basics.

Aries: Head

Based on an old helmet and some ideas from the Leo, working on getting the basic forms of the head in place.

Aries: Main Engine 1

Had an idea that I could build an Aries on the Leo, but the leo's body is stalkier (and torso wider). Still, there may be some positives in using Leo as a base for Height, etc.

Leo: mostly

A quick splat of paint to see how the Leo looks. I need to figure out the arm shield bits, as I've only seen pictures of it. Also no weapon yet.

Leo: Legs

Using the Tallgeese legs mostly in-form for the Leo. Messing with the knee cover and ankles to get closer to what I think it might look like.

Tallgeese

So finally getting some of the textures done. Makes me wonder if I should redo the wing as well as the zero. Would like to get these Leos done though... ..of course it still lots of details to do...

Tallgeese: Booster

The boosters are mostly there. I was worried that they would open incorrectly. Needs a bit more detail, but they're good placeholders for now.

Tallgeese: Armament

Mostly it's in place, but I've goofed how the armament attaches,..I think the attachment arms are upside down now that I look at it.