I'm sure a lot of you have played a Gradius game, or heard of the Konami series (that's been around before a lot of you were even born). Whether it be on your Playstation 2, your Gameboy, in the arcades, or even on your graphing calculator at school when you're done with that big math test.
I was bored (of course!) and inspiration hit me while playing the new Gradius Collection on the PSP, so I got my tubs of pieces out and went to work. The result wasn't as true to the many forms of the ship that have been seen over the years, but I'm pleased with the results.

front
side
bottom
close up of cockpit/nose
top
back
Gallery
Vic Viper (storyline by me, based off of Konami's games)-
The Vic Viper, an interstellar fighter rushed into service by the planet of Gradius during the first Bacterion war, it was successful at destroying the enemy base of Xaerous. The Vic Viper returned two years later, reoutfitted for a new mission to destroy the new wave of Bacterion fighters, the force known as Gofer, once again, the Vic Viper returned to its people, having saved them from a second chance at destruction. But the Bacterions did not give up, in one last full force invasion they returned to Gradius controlled space, and the Vic Viper was again modified for the new wave of enemies. After destroying the large biomass behind the Bacterion wars, a fragment of the being landed on a planet near Gradius, quickly terraforming it into another base like Xaerous, the people of Gradius were at the mercy of their forces, when a lone pilot took the Vic Viper, worn by age, into one last fight to eliminate the Bacterions, and send them back through expanse of darkness from whence they came. Peace rested upon the people of Gradius, and they could finally return to a life without fear.

Bonus MOC, "Walker" enemy; walkers show up in most of the games in one form or another, I based this one of off the more cartoonish looking one of the original game.
side
front
back
walking along and aiming at the Vic Viper (unseen)
Gallery
DtM

This post has been edited by Dinobot The Maximal: Jun 24 2006, 10:28 PM

It's a nice MOC, but this forum is for Bionicle-based MOCs only.

If I were to score it, 9/10 nice job.

-Marauder

looks awsome
reminds me of a intergalactic space ship
10/10
i like the zamor in the cockpit

actually, anything technic is good game think of it as a late bbc36 entry
~~~~~
the moc is quite nice, i love the usage of a zamor launcher, it reminds me heavily of blitzkrieg and neo mikerahk (but that's just me )
the piraka torso is used inconceivably well, and splits into the wings quite nicely
the back fin also looks good
and the cockpit looks excellent, nice use of the thok tube

overall, excellent job
and the editing is pretty good too

Thoraxe- Glad you like it so much

Marauder- Like what Mikey said, anything Technic goes in this forum, Lego based MOCs go in the LGD board

ToaXP- A Hyperspace fighter was what I was aiming for, at least the idea behind what its supposed to be is easy to recognize, I redid the wings to make it more convienent as I built it, otherwise there'd be these huge L shaped things on either side of the mid-section

Mikerahk- Those Zamor launchers can be used for so much more other than launchers, you would know

DtM

Now that, is pretty sweet. Man that Zamor sphere fits perfectly on the ship and the front edited picture looks good. I thought it was really from the trnasformer series or somthing. KUTGW.

Jegun- The Zamor launcher was the only piece I could find that looked decent enough as the cockpit and still matched the silver color scheme, though I wish I had a blue zamor sphere for the cockpit :/ The edited picture took me about 30 minutes from start to finish, I was still trying to figure out the differences between Imageready and Photoshop. And a Vic Viper TF would be awesome!

Aslo, I put up links to the seperate pictures in the Walker MOC gallery and a link to the Vic Viper gallery as well.
DtM

too simple, but effective. i like it. the "arms" are cool. 9/10 !

As a long time Gradius and Life Force fan, I can say this is a very good rendition of the VV.

I like the cockpit, and front of it, you got the shape down very well. Nice background to it as well.

9/10, I love old shooters.

Lol, the Lifeforce/Salamander thing always had me confused on which was which (even the wiki didn't help >.>). Still, glad to know I'm not alone, old shooters are some of the best ever, I just felt like I had to do this ship some justice in MOC format.
DtM