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The flames make a lot more sense if you think the hover vents are on the feather tips, and not the back of the vehicle.
With some OSL on the vents and simplifying up the rest of it, I think they can still work.
If not, it'll just be a neat pattern.

The big Leadbelcher areas need to go most, I think.

I think the flames would better represent the direction the bird flies in, ie., the wings are but a canvas for the flames, not the generator. The cabin/hull is the heat source and it is throwing flames, as it is, in flight the flames go against the wind, which is god damned heresy.

Still, I'd be interested to see how the look with the rest of it cleaned up

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
The flames make a lot more sense if you think the hover vents are on the feather tips, and not the back of the vehicle.

I'm thinking of it more in terms of how it works visually than whether it makes sense. The usual way we see flame patterns is motion from the base of the flame to the tip, which is why you always see vehicles painted with the flames running front to back. Your eye just naturally tracks along that direction without consciously thinking about it. But the way we see bird feathers is also a kind of "motion" from the base of the wing to the tip. And so you have the two visual elements running in opposing directions, which makes it hard to follow where anything is going. And it's even worse because the two patterns overlap so strongly, the gaps between "feathers" slash prominently across the flames (thanks to black on white contrast) and draw a lot of attention. So when I look at it I don't see any one element catching my focus and "anchoring" the work, it just blends together into clutter.

If you reverse the direction of the flames (and, ideally, keep each strand of flame within its "feather" without crossing any of the gaps) then it might make less sense from a "where are the thrusters" point of view but I think it would make the design flow a lot better and seem less cluttered.

Yeah, I follow. I'll see how it looks when cleaned up.
The direction was always a (admittedly odd) deliberate choice as I hand cut all of those stencil panels and laid them in there. If you look back a page to plain white with them, it looks fairly okay.
I guess the important part isn't making sense or logic, it's whether I'm happy... Right now I'm not.

Right now she needs some extremely delicate repairs before I can do anything. The entire rear section is hanging in there by one engine casing seam. :(

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

I guess the important part isn't making sense or logic, it's whether I'm happy... Right now I'm not.

Well no, the important thing is that you appease us anonymous Internet man dolly aficionados!

You are an absolute DaVinci of tiny plastic things. As far as the event with the cat, I feel you entirely. An ENTIRELY COMPLETED AND BASED SENTINEL got knocked off its perch by a cat and completely shattered. If there was a part that could be separated it is. I'm still mad about this.

kb_lock wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

I guess the important part isn't making sense or logic, it's whether I'm happy... Right now I'm not.

Well no, the important thing is that you appease us anonymous Internet man dolly aficionados!

I come here to learn, and to share some of what I enjoy. I have no intention of abating the Internet by changing my strange tastes. But if things are technically flawed, then that needs addressing.

I am taking her to a studio painting lesson and asking advice on where to go, rather than handing her over. Feels the right thing to do

I know this is necroposting, but is it possible to get three photos, one of the doorway leading from the passenger area into the dome/cockpit area, and one of the interior of the cockpit area. Finally, 1 of the complete underside of the model?

 jobalisk wrote:
I know this is necroposting,

Why do it then?

Consider the situation. This thread hasn't been updated in 6 years and the OP hasn't made a post in a year and half. What do you think the chances of them coming back to fulfill your request are?

PM'ing the OP would have been a more sensible option. That way you wouldn't be necro'ing a thread that there's a chance they'd never see and they'd actually get a notification that they might see should they log back in at some point.
Alternatively, start a new thread asking for the required pics. You'll have a better chance of getting them that way.