Which Is Your Favorite Starfighter?

So which one do you like best?

Tie fighters, X-Wing, Buck Rogers Earth, Colonial Viper, Cylon Raider, other?

Personally my favorites are the Colonia Viper (classic) from BSG and the Buck Rogers earth fight (one Marso has for his Avatar).

Colonial Viper.

my favourite starfighter?

the last one

I will grace this thread with some pics shortly.

This one.

Star League Gunstar.

Two words - DEATH BLOSSOM!

Here are some pics of various fighters.

Obviously, Buck's Earth Directorate SF is in my av. Here's another view:



The VF-19 from Macross Plus:







The VF-0D from Macross Zero:



The SV-51 Variable Fighter from Macross Zero:



The VF-0 Valkyrie / Veritech Fighter from Macross / Robotech (with Fastpacks)



The rarely seen VF-4 Valkyrie from Macross 2 (This one is my current desktop):



One version of the Black Tiger / Cosmo Tiger fighter from Star Blazers:




More to come....

Hell, here are a few of my own invention. I drew up the designs when I invented the fighter for one of my manuscripts way back when. Seen for the first time ever by eyes other than my own, the Raven, Skyfox, and Starhawks MK I and II.









The artwork is pretty crappy- I ain't an artist.

And more from the movies and TV:

The TOS viper:



The Viper MKII:



Viper MK VII:



TOS Raider:



nuRaider:



Various SW fighters:









The Z-95 Headhunter



Incom T-65



Various Seinar TIE's:

It's hard to pick a favorite- damn hard.

But I think top prize would have to go to the MKII Viper from nuBSG. I didn't used to think it was really possible to improve upon the original, but the MKII is a definite improvement.

2nd place: The X-wing

3rd place: VF-19 Valkyrie

4th place: Buck's Starfighter

Honorable Mention: Gunstar 1.

Here's another shot of the Gunstar from the Last Starfighter:



And Hawk's Fighter from the abortion-of-a-second-season of Buck Rogers. In fact, this design was about the only good thing to come out of S2:



EDIT- scaled properly, the gunstar pic would make a nice av.

I love this thread already!

This bad boy right here -



Followed by this -

B5 StarFury

Always liked the Starfury.

Outta rep. sorry.

Owe ya a rep. Just ran out!!

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Another vote for the Star Fury.

While those are all nice choices, I have a real soft spot for this one:



And another view:

What the hell is that?

Major West's space fighter from the opening scenes of Lost in Space of course.

Ah...it does look familier...been a while since I ran that.

It me forever to find those two shots before I took a shot at google image search, and bang! There they were.

My own personal Hammerhead:
http://www.inpayne.com/models/hammerhead1.html

My own personal Star Fury:
http://www.inpayne.com/models/star_fury_333.html

My own personal Delta-7
http://www.inpayne.com/models/delta-7a.html

Mk. VII all the way. I love that thing.

Interestingly, they seem to have borrowed one of the Macross designs for the GDI transport in the new Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars game.

Always liked the Starfury and Buck's fighter, and the Viper Mk. II is probably my favourite, but let's have a shout out for this baby:

in the old Star Wars games the A-wing was a joy to fly.

Tie Interceptors are sexy as fuck IMFO.

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I also have a soft spot for the old school Arwing.



Edit:

Yeah until you got hit.

Yeah, I hardly ever took anything else out unless the mission called for taking out a cap ship bigger than a Nebulon-B frigate.

Only ship that beat it in those games was the TIE Avenger/TIE Defender.