this reply might be a little late or out of place...i just stumbled into this thread...
so here goes.
The Hyperion/Karuna design draws a little off of Wing Commander and the ships from Starship Troopers but is largely inspired by the B5 Omega. to be honest i only really watched the show to catch the battle scenes and the omega just stuck in my mind, i very much like the design...kinda has an elegance about it, yet it has the appeal like a finely crafted battering ram and i say that with affection. the design just screamed in my head "we are humans, beater of a$$!"
so the model is my tribute to the omega with some personal design touches, beefed up and with a lot more guns!
overall its not doing to bad as my first certified model (i don't count the Cube of Death from Kara's Tutorial), and I'm just stoked its actually getting used in something big like BP!
so there you have it.
next time on "Inside The Obscure Modellers Studio"
well ask "why do we need the
Bravos when we can have a Flying Bender from Futurama, or a 1970s Ford pickup up truck that shoots beams from the headlights?"
sorry...i thought that was funny...admittedly though i have thought about replacing the bravos with a flying pickup truck...seeing peter from family guy flying around in a pickup truck was great.
