On midnight the 1st of March - Project Hull Breach - a scifi community mod project kicked it's opening off with a 300 dollar art competition. A bonus prize being awarded for the logo / banner category. The site went straight to the modDB number 1 spot with 3764 unique hits within 3 hours of opening. Even planethalflife (despite it's tendency not to cover hl2 related mods) gave some coverage.
So what makes PHB different from the rest, well the community is invited to join the project in any way they see fit, offering guidance in all areas of the development PHB aims to provide keen wannabes the means to learn new skills via tutorials and a helpful community as well as raising the public profile of yet un-noticed talent within the modding scene. Currently the project is focusing carefully on the design and concept - creating a dark believable futuristic world in space, drawing ships, interiors, fashion, technology etc. Many say that the modding community are twiddling thumbs whilst they await the SDk2.0 release, not PHB. As any software engineer will tell you, poor planning equals poor performance and whilst the small mods yawn and produce random 3d weapon models PHB are preparing ourselves by following the full development life cycle, and that starts in concept and design. Preparing for what will be a management nightmare, a sophisticated PHP based structure is being created to ensure full control is kept over all areas of the development. We welcome anyone to drop by and simply join in!
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Example model concepts by J.Waterson reflect a possible futuristic ww2 feel to the game.

Some gorgeous concept weapons which will soon be converted to 3d

The Rebel Wrist Sword - George Lucas ain't sueing over this one :)