Until Mr. Welch grants us an image gallery of our own, I've decided to set up one of ours (sorta). Reply with links to your images or comments on those already posted.
Here are some images I made in POV-Ray of a Gateship from a previously unknown race I hope to put in a plug sometime:

(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/PHCS5.jpg")This is an orthographic top view of her (she's sentient, and calling her "it" would offend her).(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/PHCS6.jpg")This is a view from above and behind, possibly from a ship fleeing in terror (good plan).(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/PHCS7.jpg")This is a view from another angle, showing the focusing array for its spatial distortion generator.(/url)

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William Darkk, head of the Darkklight Entrepenurial Federation
Your cargo or your life!!!

(This message has been edited by Fleet Admiral Darkk (edited 12-29-2000).)

It's a good model, but you really need to work on the color scheme.

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Never put all your ranking officers in a shuttle.

(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/patrickcavanaugh/FileSharing.html")http://homepage.mac....ileSharing.html(/url)
here's a couple of pics of a Human light fighter.

I made it in Strata 3d.
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(This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 12-30-2000).)

Slug's right. REALLY right. However, it is a nice model. I really like the six stabilizer fins!

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Long Live Apple! Long Live the Mac!
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/salrillian")http://www.geocities.com/salrillian(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/evclassic")http://www.geocities.com/evclassic(/url)

OK, I'll try dark gray and blue.

I've tried gray/blue/some red. (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/PHCS10.jpg")http://www.geocities...arkk/PHCS10.jpg(/url)
Tell me what you think, but I'm probably not going to change it too much, unless I hear suggestions.

The fins were the easy part. All it took was a little piece of knowledge, but that shows the value of one well kept secret...

The hardest parts acutally aren't very visable from above, they're the jumpgate system.

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William Darkk, head of the Darkklight Entrepenurial Federation
Your cargo or your life!!!

It looks a lot better, but GreyRed Yellow and Blue don't really all go. If you'll note, really good-looking ships use only two colors, not 4.

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Never put all your ranking officers in a shuttle.

It'd probably look fine with Red, Blue, and Grey.

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-Pallas Athene of Dysian Beta, Obish Consensus Representative
-Nieru Dast, {M}ilitia Aeriane
-Danae Vernius
ThinkFish, and good things will come.

EV/O ships seem fine with 3+ colors...
IT STAYS THE WAY IT IS.
Now I'm working on importing it into Hera.

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William Darkk, head of the Darkklight Entrepenurial Federation
Your cargo or your life!!!

I can do it for you but im at my dads untill bracks over (1/7) Its easy all you have to do is make it into a spinning movie and then put it into quicktime then use the program mTos just email me a compressed strata modle
Edwardabower@yahoo.com It olny takes about 5 mins

(Or you could just copy-paste the various angles into appleworks, arrange them properly, color the background, and save it as a pict. )

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"I think I have discovered the problem with humans. It is not entirely stupidity, as I once thought. It is their pigheaded and baseless philosophy: "If it isn't me, then it's opinions, feelings, and life do not matter, and it was meant to serve me." They also have this ability for creating excuses that are pointless, but they get others to believe it. A few examples: "It's only some savages. It's only five acres of rain forest. It's only one semi-truck. It's only fifty gallons of toxic waste..." After this realization, I marvelled at how humans, and the rest of the planet, have survived for so very long."
- Me

Yeah but then it looks all waboly and unstraight and there is no good shadow and the gateships are big and should have shadows and be smooth and my that way takes long and is hard to perfect mag if you sent me some of your files i could do it i will email you one of my fully rendered pictures when i get back(That i made myself)

There's a topic somewhere down the boards about sprite generation. The program "p2s" is currently all I need.

Well, that and grafficconverter and Hera

I might soon have enough knowledge of Hera to start a plug. I also am working on making my sprites import looking decent (stupid dither).

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William Darkk, head of the Darkklight Entrepenurial Federation
Yes, I hate Cantharans. Does the trophy on the wall make it too obvious?

(This message has been edited by Fleet Admiral Darkk (edited 01-04-2001).)

What I find best is to orient the ship at 0,0, and rotate it so that it is always centered on 0,0. In Appleworks, create two documents, One the size of an individual panel, and the other 8x as wide and 3x as tall. In the smaller, select import from the file menu. It will place the graphic in the precise center of the window, and cut off what you don't need. Then you paste it into the larger, and repeat with the other 23 sprites. (Actually, I use a program called Dazzle Photostudio for the 8x x 3x picture. It lets me change it to the Ares color table immediately)

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-Pallas Athene of Dysian Beta, Obish Consensus Representative
-Nieru Dast, {M}ilitia Aeriane
-Danae Vernius
ThinkFish, and good things will come.

Hey, Darkk, I know the old RPG died hard, but I have a pretty straightforward model I mad of the Riaxx/Andalusa. It seems sort of silly and simple to me, but I like it, considering I have never used Strata 3D before. Now what the heck is that POV ray thing? I've been hacking out prints for years with photoshop, and I picked up strata easy, but POV-ray gave me worse nightmares than C++ did... damn...

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NEW NAME FOR THE DREADNOUGHT
The Hard-Boiled Egg
Why?
Because she cant be beaten!

Send the strata file to me and the plug i can render it into you your plug for you send it to edwardabower@yahoo.com and i can give it back to you by munday send away!

Hehe, thanks to POV, C++ doesn't scare me at all. You just got to learn how to talk to computers, that's all. You'll thank me if you learn it when we all go to OSX and want to learn the core UNIX stuff.

(irony)I made a model of the Riaxx as well, and also consider it rather simple.(/irony)

Put yours on Geocities, and we can compare them.
Here are images of mine: (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/Riaxx1.jpg")http://www.geocities...arkk/Riaxx1.jpg(/url) (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/Riaxx2.jpg")http://www.geocities...arkk/Riaxx2.jpg(/url) (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/fadarkk/Riaxx3.jpg")http://www.geocities...arkk/Riaxx3.jpg(/url)

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William Darkk, head of the Darkklight Entrepenurial Federation
"Strategic warfare" is code for "killing civilians", and it's my calling. Yeah, it's barbaric. War's supposed to be.

hehe If I ever get around to making it look pretty, I'll post a picture of it, but they're totally different. Mine looks a lot more like something flying out of the crescent in EVO. Not that I don't like it. In fact, I think it looks pretty good. The only change I would suggest would be to not make the body width norrow before the engines, but whatever, its still cooler than mine.

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NEW NAME FOR THE DREADNOUGHT
The Hard-Boiled Egg
Why?
Because she cant be beaten!