[Rhymes]

Hel-lo, beautiful!

[Cobra]

Is it done yet, can we get it textured now :V

[Cyborg17]

   

[Hades]

http://p3d.in/U4plL

Update: Antennae bit is being worked on, not finished, same with the engine subsystem area (not the engines atm) and of course, hull detail. As well as model the smaller turret, which appears to be a multipart just as the retail model's did (srsly, take a close look at it)

[Col.Hornet]

Are you going to fill this big hole under the bottom turret with some details, parts?

[Hades]

Of course. I'll likely fill it with some sort of reactor, with wires and such. It's obviously too far from the engine nozzles to be the actual engine, so it has to be something that would provide it power.

[Trivial Psychic]

Regarding the non-multipart turrets, might you be considering making them into very small multi-part ones using the non-standard-positioning submodel animation code?

[Kopachris]

Are we going to have a flight deck we can fly into like the GVD Hatshepsut?

[Col.Hornet]

Of course. I'll likely fill it with some sort of reactor, with wires and such. It's obviously too far from the engine nozzles to be the actual engine, so it has to be something that would provide it power.

Please, not reactor. It would be stupid to make the vital parts of 2km long warship's exposed, covered only by some grids (or if you really want to make reactor parts, please give them some armour) Maybe some engine cooler parts? Some pipes with hot gases which are made to discharge the heat from other systems.

[Kopachris]

Of course. I'll likely fill it with some sort of reactor, with wires and such. It's obviously too far from the engine nozzles to be the actual engine, so it has to be something that would provide it power.

Please, not reactor. It would be stupid to make the vital parts of 2km long warship's exposed, covered only by some grids (or if you really want to make reactor parts, please give them some armour) Maybe some engine cooler parts? Some pipes with hot gases which are made to discharge the heat from other systems.

Agreed.  Radiator is better than reactor.

[Cobra]

By that logic, a radiator would be the same kind of weak spot.

[headdie]

By that logic, a radiator would be the same kind of weak spot.

rector gets popped and you are dead in space, a radiator gets slagged you still have a chance to escape if nothing else

edit
also radiators logically need to be exposed to space to work
Reactors have no reason to have direct access short of ejections and are better off burried deep in the ship to protect them so long as you have sufficient cooling

[Kolgena]

Could be like the Hatshepsut reactor. The subsystem looks like hull until you blow it up, at which point you expose a reactor.


edit: no wait totally fill the space with meson bombs XD

[SypheDMar]

Is the hole where the engine or reactor subsystem is?

[MatthTheGeek]

Engine. The Orion doesn't have any "reactor" subsystem.

[Col.Hornet]

I still think that it will be better to fill this space with radiator's pipes. Destroyable reactor subsystem might be a funny thing but it shouldn't look like this (exposed)

[esarai]

There's a lot of detail in the texture this thing is replacing that can be expanded upon.  I get the feeling it may end up looking like a mash of radiators and generator equipment.

[SypheDMar]

I'm not convinced that it can't be a reactor (especially since destroy reactor subsystems for other ships don't disable them outright unless FREDded to do so), but radiator explanation makes a lot of sense and probably act as a psuedo-reactor anyway.

Could always try for radiators and armored fuel tanks that feeds into the engines.

[Mongoose]

Honestly I vote we let the Rule of Cool win out over any overly-elaborate explanations.

[MatthTheGeek]

^ this