Im pretty much finished modeling it. Its for orbiter mainly but can be used in other games or simulators. the only thing that needs to be done is to have its new bridge implanted which is being worked on now. Aswell as scale it to its actual size. The landing gear is made to be retract able aswell as the hanger bay doors should be able to open and close.

25k polys and right now its in quads. Im afraid that number will be bigger when I convert it to tri's to export it into a .3ds
Hopefully Reduce polys should get it back down to game sized.

Now for texturing I have two options.

Either learn skinning UV mapping myself which will take a while
Or ask someone to skin it. Rerember this is a game mesh.

That landing gear looks as if it'd definately snap under the impossible amount of weight of that ship.

For gaming purposes, make all those slightly raised panels with textures instead of geometry.

Agreed. The landing gear looks like toothpicks compared to the rest of the ship.

USAF? Bweh heh. You'd think if it was from the US it'd at least be from NASA.

No, but they're in on it.

...you realize the USAF officially admitted they have had space craft since the end of the cold war right? That as we speak, the struturing of the U.S. Space Force is being developed? NASA would have little to do with a space combat vehicle.

Nasa does space research. Combat is for the armed forced.

USSF, I like the sound of that! Too bad you can't slur it like you can with USAF, where you can say "oosaaf."