Talk:Viper Mark III/Archive 1

Size

Those numbers seem big! Surely you can't just read them off the scale off the graph as that's for the "ground" level, while in the top down view the Vipers we see are several meters up, and so closer to the viewer, so perspective would inflate the apparent size. Phalanx-a-pedian 17:35, 14 November 2012 (EST)

I thought the same thing, but that's the math. The top-down view is an orthographic projection taken directly from Lightwave, so there isn't any perspective distortion make the Vipers look bigger than the floor (the bottom Viper has another one below and slightly ahead of it. You can see the nose and forward wingtips peaking out, and they're exactly the same size as the one above it, proving there's no perspective). I also scaled a Mark II orthographic publicity render to it for comparison, and the cockpits are the same size (and from the shots in B&C, the III seems to be using the same physical cockpit set as the II did). [See for yourself.] -- David cgc 18:27, 14 November 2012 (EST)

That is a HUGE Viper! Why would that make it so big? I mean, I know Vipers are pretty damn small compaired to modern aircraft but.. would that even still fit in an unmodified launch tube? Phalanx-a-pedian 04:37, 16 November 2012 (EST)

Shall we add the length and wingspan back in, then? -- David cgc 17:57, 27 November 2012 (EST)

update picture

This page should update it's main picture as in episode 5 of Blood and Chrome there are much clearer shots of the Viper IIIs that show the whole Viper without obstruction. Tried adding this myself, but unfortunally was not able to include pictures on this Wiki. VARGR 14:33, 23 November 2012 (EST)

Heres a couple of pictures I took of it you can use. http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh49/_VARGR_/Viper-mark-III.png http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh49/_VARGR_/Viper-mark-III2.png

Tried myself. Didn't work. I don't think it like the dashes (-) you have in the file names. - Frylock86

Well if you're able to upload pictures yourself just take one of these and save it onto your computer then upload to the wiki and hopefully that will work. VARGR 19:32, 26 November 2012 (EST)

Looks like these were already uploaded by Frylock. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 01:04, 27 November 2012 (EST)