Fighters FOL concept art requested.
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Today, I was looking at the Thaddeus profile. I saw a link to his site. I clicked. And after I was gone to artworks page. And I saw this : Optical Studios Artworks
Fols are DS1 style ships ore DS1 is a Fol fighter type. So I searched on the internet their previous stages and nothing. Why? Because they are from the old Lancers Reactor. And Thaddeus, if I understand well, needs some helps to find the other stages of them and also the Rheinland FOLs. If anyone has these things on his computer, upload them.
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Thanks for the link, I have been looking for the rest of the stages for years. I was offline when the old Lancersreactor went down and didnt have a chance to save the rest. What little I have was reclaimed via wayback machine, and thats like drawing teeth I can tell you.
I will eventually finish these but work on them is spasmodic at best (due to lack of inspiration, lol). As Freestalker says if you have any of these concepts then please upload them or PM me, thanks
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I’m sorry Thaddeus but I think nobody has these concept. It is saddly bad but we will wait…
I will ask on Discovery GC.
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@ Freestalker.fr : thanks, someone must still have these. There are at least 36 pics out there of these, eight progressive side views and a group per house. I remember also there was a schematic for the Nomad sun killer from the intro. I would have thought some would be still around. Thanks for posting on the Disco boards, I don’t have an account on them.
@Timmy51m : thanks, but these are the pictures released with the website kit and/or the complimentary DVD with the Soundtrack CD. What I’m looking for is the images that were given (pretty much exclusively it seems) to the original Lancersreactor.com and hosted between 2003 and 2007 (before it all went tits-up)
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I ask to SWAT Portal.
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I asked Op sometime last year, he says he didn’t inherit any of the original artwork
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OP is searching on his computer.
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I don’t ever recall seeing anything like those sketches you’ve got on your site, shame I missed them when they were on Lancers. I’ve been searching the net and although I can find all the artwork I’ve posted above all over the place, I can’t find anything that resembles your drawings.
Have you tried tracking down the concept artists for any leads? [email protected]
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Timmy51m wrote:
Have you tried tracking down the concept artists for any leads? [email protected]I’ll give it a try, I dont usually have much luck getting replies out of artists. I always thought Harald Belker did the ships, his art is certainly very similar to the art that’s still available
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Let’s hoping that’s it! We may do some crossfingers ^^.
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Request sent to both of them , we shall see (I hope)
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Any news out there?
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Not really, Craig Mullens hasn’t come back to me but Harald Belker replied saying
there is a lot of stuff there, these particular drawings were done for a specific on-line game where they evolve and get bigger…
I will have to see where I got those. I will look, get back to me by the end of the week.HB
I will get back to him by the end of the week…
I live in hope
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Hope! hope! ^^ ^^ ^^ I’m a bit happy, will we refind these arts? We will know it! ^_^/
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So… Is there any concepts? Now.
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Thar be Concepts, thar be concepts a plenty! Avast! or I’ll nail your doubloons to a mast!
But seriously, Harald Belker came through for us, he really is a great guy. So refreshing to find someone who will go out of their way for someone else on the internet these days. Very professional, plus he’s a great artist.
I put them all up on my page (same link above). These images are direct from Harald which he did back in 2000 and are not distorted. When they put the images up on Lancers all those years ago I think they must have squashed and pulled them about a bit to fit them into their page design. Now they make a lot more sense, at least to me anyway. I have some redesign work to do on my own FOL model now that I don’t have to work with a fuzzy thumbnail.
Cant get over the size of the Kusari fighter 1, its a cockpit with 2 guns attached! That would be really difficult to hit.
If people are interested I could make a concept gallery here on Starport and upload some of the stuff I have gathered over the years, plus, it would save these things from getting lost again, anybody?
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Yes button (please press two time!)
I will print them to keep them. I think they are the most important arts of FL.
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Wow, good of him to do that. Such a rarity to find someone who actually gives a toss. Anybody plan on modelling those drawings?
Also, that yes button guy sounds like Van Pelt.
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Yes Thaddeus is moddeling them and BTW I’ve uploaded the concepts on TSP on other/fun page of Freelancer gallery.
