[Anaz]

Originally posted by StrykeIX
...Launching the old GTCv Dildo as missiles?

*thwack*

[Shrike]

A bit more work done, I got the beam turrets more or less completed to my satisfaction.  I may go back and add a bit more detail later, but it's time to move on tomorrow.



And an updated render of the ship itself.  I haven't tried Venom's suggestion yet, I'll play around with that when I have a bit more time.

[Styxx]

Nice detailing on that turret.

[Shrike]

S'more updates.  Redid the PD mounts entirely.
Poly count is now 108,567.  Damned round bits.

[Styxx]

Pretty cool stuff there, even though you could use less segments on the round bits, you know?

[Nico]

yup
I can't decide if I like the design of the minigun turrets or not tho...

[Bishop Gantry]

[Darth Vader]My father you is[/Darth Vader]

I see you pimping your stuff Shrike.. meh likehy... now get those fugly turrets colored prefably in an transparent color... you knwo witch ones I mean;)

[mikhael]

Shrike, those CIWS-like weapon turrets are ugly as sin. I hereby request that you replace them with something sexier, and preferably with more fiddly exposed bits. Thank you.

[Levyathan]

Yeah, I don't like that color on the rear. Use green instead.

[kasperl]

i think the front should be more rounded, it just doesn't look right

[Shrike]

Some updates.

[mikhael]

The front end is getting a bit busy there, but I like it. What is that thing floating in the upper right?

And the Artoo units are still out of the droid pen.

[Shrike]

There's multiple modern-day point defense mounts that look like R2s, so I feel like I'm in good company.

And the gold thingie is a recon drone.  No, it's not anywhere close to done, I just knocked it together for scale when I get around to building the drone bays.

[Anaz]

the R2 type guns that are modern are known as Phalanx turrets I believe...


Anyways, cool drone, cool ship. Has a B5-esque feel to it...

[Shrike]

The Russians have some turrets that are similar, in fact I used them as the starting point for my PD guns.

[mikhael]

Don't get me wrong, Shrike: they're very nicely done, and properly ugly.

They also completely do not match the rest of the model. They look completely out of place. They're entirely too wet-navy for them to look right on your nice blocky vacuum frigate.

[Shrike]

Becauase they're domes?  Have you looked at a modern warship?  They're as boxy and angular as mine!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Shrike
Becauase they're domes?  Have you looked at a modern warship?  They're as boxy and angular as mine!

Originally posted by mikhael
Don't get me wrong, Shrike: they're very nicely done, and properly ugly.

They also completely do not match the rest of the model. They look completely out of place.
They're entirely too wet-navy for them to look right on your nice blocky vacuum frigate.

I didn't say anything about the domes. I said that the turrets themselves, whilst looking very well done, don't match the rest of the ship. That's it. You can put domes all over it, but wet-navy turrets on a vacuum navy ship don't look right.

Did you somehow forget that I was a US Navy sailor before I became a civilian sysadmin and cableguy? OF BLOODY COURSE I'VE LOOKED AT A DAMN MODERN WARSHIP.

[Shrike]

So what makes them 'too wet navy' then?

[mikhael]

Probably the fact that it looks like your vacuum navy sailors took a shuttle down to earth, absconded with a CIWS turret from a wet navy vessel, carried it back up to the orbital shipyard and bolted it on.

Your turret there is tall, with a small diameter. By contrast your other turrets are squatter with large diameters. They also look like they're made of the same hull material as the rest of the ship. If redesigned your Artoos to look fall more in line with the other turrets (after all, there is no reason for you to retain a wet navy design, just because you're using a wet navy concept), the overall look of the model would be more unified.

Its somewhat akin to all the whinging and moaning about Ryx's turrets for his Orion: no one said they weren't good turrets. Everyone said they didn't fit with the Orion. As with the Orion, so with the Cyclone.

[edit]
Oh, and your recon drone gave me a great idea.
[/edit]