Space Griffon VF-9 texture comparisons

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I've updated my Space Griffon album over at photobucket. Once again, it's right here.

For this post I'll be doing a little texture comparison just because I find this stuff intriguing.

Now when playing this game I generally don't pay too much attention to the enemy model textures. This is chiefly because I'm preoccupied with destroying foes and I rarely get close enough to pick out details. So I was genuinely surprised to see the above texture in the game's files. It's a dirty, bloodied version of the following base texture:

It's always interesting the level of detail developers put into their games that flies under the radars of most players.

This is a beat up version of the following:

However, I wasn't able to find a clean version of the companion texture.

Perhaps it went unfinished?

Here's a finished texture for comparison to the one below.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this one. Is this texture actually finished as far as it's use needed it to be or was drawing halted for some reason? There are many small spacing differences between the two. For example the two rows of vents at the top left are a little further apart in the first texture. In the second texture there's a tiny gap at the top right where one piece hasn't been fleshed out to pixel perfection. The vent near the bottom right is completely different between the two.