For those who don't follow up on military tech, the RAH-66 Comanche was going to be one of the world's most advanced helicopters ever made. However, budget issues forced the project to cancel. Much of the Comanche's experimental tech is being integrated into existing helicopters, such as the Apache and Kiowa.
So I thought I'd pay respect to one of the most mean looking helicopters to exist and model it from scratch, using only a blueprint picture and a real model of the helicopter.
What I've come up with over the past day is this:


Now I'm not sure how I'm going to integrate this into Halo. I'll probably just make it scenery, just cause I don't feel like animating this thing.

Update:

All that's left is the main rotor, tail rotor setup, front radar gear, and fine detail.

Cool i like it you should take the time to animate it and stuff. i would love to do an air strike on a packed hugeass server with that thing XD

care to post pics of the real thing?

Just google RAH-66...I found plenty of good pics, but for some reason, they don't have those two wings....

would it be possible to use the hellicopter animations from the hellicopter tags on this site?

Because those are the YAH-66, or the test version.

I hope not, those arn't verry good :|

acording to wikipedia, all it's missiles are carried internally.

I admit, I rushed that part. I'll proabbly delete and redo, just cause I can.
Also, the wings are called (at least to my knowledge) EFAMS, and carry additional weapons. I love a stock comanche without the EFAMS, but it still looks badass when they're on it and fully loaded with Hydras, Hellfires, and even Stingers.

Real RAH-66: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/comanche-030.jpg
Comanche with EFAMS: http://www.maxi-fond-ecran.com/fond-ecran/jeux-video/comanche_4_002.jpg

UPDATE: Radar finished, some areas more "defined".

Edited by Nugga117 on Nov 17, 2007 at 10:57 PM

Looking nice, keep up the good work.

It'd be more ballanced gameplay wise without them though.

also, the nose needs work.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/comanche_large.jpg
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/rah-66-tgs-2.jpg

Also, there's many different variants of the nose.


Next render will include the tail rotor, rails for the hellfires, and textures.

EDIT: That render looks like crap with the transparent background.
EDIT2: Actually, the whole render setup is garbage.
Edited by Nugga117 on Nov 17, 2007 at 11:53 PM

would it be possible to script it so that any enemy within a certain range of the vehicle (not too far) gets a red arrow pointer that shows up on all team mate's HUD's? that would be really cool (and emulate the role of a recon chopper alot better)

how many blades is it supposed to have? It looks like i only has three in this pic: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/comanche-030.jpg but your looking at the blueprints so your probably correct with 4.

The Comanche has 5 blades, just like I modeled.
Edited by Nugga117 on Nov 18, 2007 at 01:16 PM

oh i see, thats just a bad angle. the 5th blade no the back doesn't look like a blade, it looks like a little fin sticking off the top of the center part.

The targeting systems in the front could be scaled down a bit. I think they look a bit too big.

No, all of that is targeting equipment for the Hellfire and TOW missiles.

Nice. I was wondering what those were called. That will be much fun to fly