I am antimilitarist, feeling guilty to love military airplanes, I don't want at all to design a killing weapon... yes, dear GTX, this is close to art, but more simple without turning pretentious...
It doesn't have to be military, but for a design to make sense, even just visual sense,
as a design it has to coalesce around a coherent purpose. Think of a purpose, what does it do, then the design elements that make sense flow more easily from that.
As for it possibly being art, sure, if you like. Stick tracks and wings and canopies all over it as
art. B ut do it with a coherent purpose/theme in mind
The original post was :
but the subject require a LAND environment, and I will have to change something to reach the subject. Should I remove the wings? Should I add undercarriage (spats?)? Should I transform it into a caterpillar?
My reply was to think through the design purpose and then the modifications become easier to imagine.
If the purpose is "just to look interesting" or "whimsy", then _that_ is it's purpose and, of course, everyone's idea of interesting is different, so have at it, but if you are asking for suggestions, it implies that one doesn't have a preconceived direction in which to take the design. Art and whimsy based concepts, however, provide no guidance or basis for helping Tophe out of his conundrum. He's already saying "I don't know what to do" so saying "It's art, do what you like" isn't really providing much guidance, is it? Certainly he can put tracks on the roof and a ships hull on the bottom and skis out each side if he's looking for whimsy or art, but if he knew that's what he wanted to do, he'd have done it already.
And I'm not suggesting any particular purpose for this thing, it can be for any purpose whatsoever, but no matter what, simply slapping pieces of whatever to the fuselage sections _will_ look "stupid and slapped" together unless the whole of the design hangs together in some coherent way. Think of a purpose, imagine what it's for (and that can be as an homage to "the wastefulness of war", if you like), but have a purpose in mind and the design will flow.
Otherwise it really will be bits and pieces slapped together.
Paul