Just a follow up wip here because I made use of Jay's engine..
I started the Firefly tutorial and finished the engine and had intended to put it on this Pod Racer but felt it was a bit to sleek and...

Yet another example and test scene.
The front of the Flash type rocked, that I've been playing with has a zbrush starburst on the front.
displaced in zbrush.

I know the contrails are out, it is...

This is my first test with zbrush displacement map.
It's a bit exaggerated to show the effect of the displacement.
And rendered in TG2

I'm not very good at the texture thing, but in the body for example. I painted in and layered different textured in photoshop.
In this example the body is shown in shadermap pro.
I like this...

Thanks, I'm still trying to figure out the texture settings.
These legs were based on a pair I found somewhere.
I twisted them all about and then rebuilt everything.

I made use of the sci-fi...

This is a first stab at trying to texture everything in total,
So it's been a struggle..

I was wondering if you could use the legs as flaps? ..

Jason, you are one twisted artist!!
This model...

I guess you guys haven't seen this in a while..
I acquired this tutorial of Jason's from someone that gave up on modeling it.
So if it was illegal for me to buy it second hand, shoot me now..
But...