SeanP

My favorite fighter plane is the F-14 Tomcat, so I created a new fighter for my book covers, paying homage to the F-14. This is the F-114 Tomcat Exo-Fighter which means it can operate both inside an atmosphere as well as in space. She's almost finished here, just tweaking a few little things.

Been working like crazy on the 3D model of the second generation battle carrier, which will appear on the cover of my third book. At three miles long, built to scale, it is twice the size of the first generation battle carrier. Its main weapons are 250% bigger than the first generation as well. The last three images are both generations for comparison.

Okay, so after a while I decided I didn't like a lot of things about the two new ships so I basically deleted everything except the main hulls and started over. I have basically finished the dreadnought and am about to start work rebuilding the battle carrier. I am very happy with how the dreadnought turned out and am hoping the battle carrier turns out just as well.

I am almost finished writing my fourth book and I've also been working on the main character's new spaceship for the cover. I have the shape all hammered out so now I can start adding all the small detail, weapons, engines, landing gear ...etc.

A little more progress on the new ship. Still lots of detail to add and I need to decide on a color scheme. This is a private space ship, not a military ship, so I think I want to give it some color instead of military gray. To save myself some time I fit the sub-light thrusters from the battle carrier in the back. I'll make some changes to make them unique to this ship in a bit. Still need to ad the thrust cones for the jet engines and the FTL drive assembly - which I'm still brainstorming on. Anyone have suggestions on the color scheme?

Blocked in the intakes for the in atmosphere jet engines today. Modeled them after the intakes on my favorite fighter the F-14 Tomcat.

So I have four books published on Amazon now.
The rewrites went well and I ended up getting professional covers made - I found a hell of a deal.
Ended up not using this fighter at all unfortunately - as well as several other ships I built.
After putting all that work in and republishing them, I found out that Facebook and Amazon changed their advertising setups completely.
Now they are designed to completely drain your bank account instead of help you sell books.
All the social media stuff is such a PITA and you get so little return that it's just not worth writing the books anymore.
So disappointed, all that work pretty much for nothing.
I figured I might as well share the covers I had designed.
I built all the ships other than the 3 small Cylon looking ships on the 4th cover.

Great work lewisniven! It looks amazing so far! This thing will look amazing when it's finished!

Added more detail to the rear of the landing bays this morning. Progress is slow due to photo research and measuring to ensure the highest level of accuracy.

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Started the long journey of modeling the detail on this thing - it will literally take me 2 years to finish as I am trying to do everything as accurate as possible and that means looking at tons of photos and measuring for scale.

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