AWACS Jester
<< ALCON! Popup two groups, twelve wide; east group of eight bullseye zero-seven-two- wait just a moment. AWACS Jester to incoming AWACS, identify yourself. >>
AWACS Private Eye
<< This is AWACS Private Eye reporting in with all that backup you wanted. Nice to see we haven't missed the main event. >>
AWACS Jester
<< Oh thank god it's you, you're here, we've got hostiles coming straight for us! >>
AWACS Private Eye
<< Well, you heard 'em! Anyone who just arrived with the cavalry, cover Jester, if you may. I'll be taking control 'till they're back in business, then we'll negotiate from there. >>
14th Bomber Squadron | Pathos 2-5
<< Uhh- bearing one-six-zero, looks like they just got a batch of reinforcements. Don't think we'll make it out of here before they arrive. >>
14th Bomber Squadron | Pathos 1-7
<< Just keep flying. We've got the Peacekeepers covering for us, just keep flying and we'll make it! >>
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coughs. AND SO TO TOP IT ALL OFF. MY HUBRIS.
EIGHTY ONE AIRCRAFT. FIFTY SIX HOURS. TWO WEEKS. AND TWO INSTANCES OF IBISPAINT CRASHING.
FULL IMAGE OF THE FURBALL HERE. IT'S 17000px LONG
bonus materials under the cut (factions, lore, extra designs)
generic faction based liveries, insignia, and associated support aircraft (as well as full designs for two characters who are not originally aircraft)
the factions shown are based off this year's teams. i did not come up with proper names for any of them, but i would assume they have actual names.
comedy is a fairly large country enroaching on tragedy (similarly large nation)'s borders. mystery is a relatively small state providing support and state-sanctioned mercenary forces to aid comedy.
tragedy is affiliated with the project wingman pacific federation (this is solely because of PK tyrian being in tragedy); all related characters were thus thrown there.
the exact situation here is a bomber intercept from the comedy faction gone wrong due to every single federation peacekeeper squadron being on station leading into a call for reinforcements and the entire situation spiralling into the Obligatory Mid-Game Ace Combat Furball Mission
characters were assigned first according to what'd make sense for the character's lore, and then if it could go either way they were then sorted according to the artist's team. not all characters are depicted with roundels, though, but where they were placed and in what situation were informed by the team they'd been assigned to :]
also yes both mobius-1s and both nemos were explicitly pitted against each other because i thought it'd be funny.
AWACS Jester
<< ALCON! Popup two groups, twelve wide; east group of eight bullseye zero-seven-two- wait just a moment. AWACS Jester to incoming AWACS, identify yourself. >>
AWACS Private Eye
<< This is AWACS Private Eye reporting in with all that backup you wanted. Nice to see we haven't missed the main event. >>
AWACS Jester
<< Oh thank god it's you, you're here, we've got hostiles coming straight for us! >>
AWACS Private Eye
<< Well, you heard 'em! Anyone who just arrived with the cavalry, cover Jester, if you may. I'll be taking control 'till they're back in business, then we'll negotiate from there. >>
14th Bomber Squadron | Pathos 2-5
<< Uhh- bearing one-six-zero, looks like they just got a batch of reinforcements. Don't think we'll make it out of here before they arrive. >>
14th Bomber Squadron | Pathos 1-7
<< Just keep flying. We've got the Peacekeepers covering for us, just keep flying and we'll make it! >>
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coughs. AND SO TO TOP IT ALL OFF. MY HUBRIS.
EIGHTY ONE AIRCRAFT. FIFTY SIX HOURS. TWO WEEKS. AND TWO INSTANCES OF IBISPAINT CRASHING.
FULL IMAGE OF THE FURBALL HERE. IT'S 17000px LONG
bonus materials under the cut (factions, lore, extra designs)
generic faction based liveries, insignia, and associated support aircraft (as well as full designs for two characters who are not originally aircraft)
the factions shown are based off this year's teams. i did not come up with proper names for any of them, but i would assume they have actual names.
comedy is a fairly large country enroaching on tragedy (similarly large nation)'s borders. mystery is a relatively small state providing support and state-sanctioned mercenary forces to aid comedy.
tragedy is affiliated with the project wingman pacific federation (this is solely because of PK tyrian being in tragedy); all related characters were thus thrown there.
the exact situation here is a bomber intercept from the comedy faction gone wrong due to every single federation peacekeeper squadron being on station leading into a call for reinforcements and the entire situation spiralling into the Obligatory Mid-Game Ace Combat Furball Mission
characters were assigned first according to what'd make sense for the character's lore, and then if it could go either way they were then sorted according to the artist's team. not all characters are depicted with roundels, though, but where they were placed and in what situation were informed by the team they'd been assigned to :]
also yes both mobius-1s and both nemos were explicitly pitted against each other because i thought it'd be funny.
fun fact! i'm actually dogshit at turnfights like this myself because i'm really bad at timing snapshots (and also. really bad at aim. but also i suspect it's because i'm using lead calculation on gunsights and i should Not be doing that but ANYWAYS)
@styllwaters inheritors but it's a diagram from this book
the inheritors are so goddamn cool man i adore them so much. i say this without actually having reblogged jack or shit I SHOULD DO THAT. anyways i'm so goddamn delighted they were on artfight
alt black/white version below cut as i didn't know how i wanted to handle it initially so
@nerdydowntherabbithole COME HERE. GIVE ME YOUR KNEECAPS
yuor plane!!!! they Go Up!!!!
(actually fun fact! they don't; the perspective on this is intended to be rotated. you can see the atmosphere line on the left lol)
(but visually yeah They Go Up)
most of the design here is referenced off the f-111 except what if it was a towplane. and an ornithopter. also they have the funny flat nose seen on a lot of stealth aircraft
tbh i kinda ran into the "every animal is a dog" issue except it's "every aircraft is a fighter jet" because it turns out i'm not great at drawing general aviation aircraft but i will get there!!! it also didn't help my main reference was outright a fighter aircraft that too
pair of attacks for vickarooni; wanted to do these as companion pieces because the writing here fucks immensely hard
by technicality the first one was done like. day 3 of artfight and the second was done near the end but shhhhhh it's fiiiine don't worry 'bout itttttttt
they're posted together since they're intended to be taken together.
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