[Anaz]

Sentry gun this time. Since we're in the era of HTL, I tried to put a few extra polies in, I think I might put more details around the solar panel areas. Of course, nobody is reading this. Nobody reads anything in the first post if it has pictures. I like cheese.

Pictures:









The pictures are a little shoddy. I might put new ones in if anyone cares.

The geometry is still missing some fighterbeam turrets, but that's about it.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Nice.
What's it armed with? It looks a little too bulky to be a light sentry gun like the alastor, IMO.

[Anaz]

it's probably going to have two lgreens and probably about 7 fighterbeams (I think it was 7...)


And light sentry guns were the reason I made this.

For some reason they just tick me off. They don't do crap. And mjolners are next to useless as well. So I invented a solution. Yey me.

[Knight Templar]

Dimensions? Looks pretty. Produce it, and we can through it in aotd.

[kv1at3485]

Someone should make an anti-fighter sentry with a combined missile and gun pack.  That might cause some distress to pilots.

[Night Hammer]

Nice work Anaz

[Liberator]

Me likes!

Though I might rotate the fins 90 degrees, they're restricting the field of fire on the turrets.

[Knight Templar]

How do you know the turrets aren't restricting the field of view of the wings?

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Anaz
it's probably going to have two lgreens and probably about 7 fighterbeams (I think it was 7...)


And light sentry guns were the reason I made this.

For some reason they just tick me off. They don't do crap. And mjolners are next to useless as well. So I invented a solution. Yey me.

With that kind of armament, surely you'd possibly be better off making it some kind of light combat station rather than a sentry gun. You might need to bulk it up a little to give people places to live, but that's stronger armament than your average cruiser, and I doubt that it could be maintained without a crew.

[karajorma]

Looks good.

I like cheese too

[Gloriano]

Sweet, good work

[Anaz]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


With that kind of armament, surely you'd possibly be better off making it some kind of light combat station rather than a sentry gun. You might need to bulk it up a little to give people places to live, but that's stronger armament than your average cruiser, and I doubt that it could be maintained without a crew.

I was thinking about that...one of the reasons I gave it a separate "reactor" area from the turrets, rather than lumping it all together, like the mjolner. If I make it about 1/2 the size of the fenris, then they might all be able to squeeze together in the "gun doughnut" around the turret mounts and stuff.

On the solar panels: Yup. I'll try putting 'em at 45 degrees and 60, and see what you chaps think.

After looking over the armament, it is a bit rediculously overpowered in the fighter department, I might cut it down to about 3 fighterbeams, and put some more "traditional" terran armament on it.

I would upload some pictures for you guys, but someone appears to be uploading something massive onto penguinbomb, and it is quite full atm.

[magatsu1]

how about adding some kind of control tower ?

[KARMA]

very nice design/model, but it seem a bit overdetailed. Also, the panels will cut the field of fire (which could be cool if you want it to have a blind spot)

[Anaz]

Originally posted by KARMA
very nice design/model, but it seem a bit overdetailed. Also, the panels will cut the field of fire (which could be cool if you want it to have a blind spot)

Overdetailed? Heh. First time anyone has said that about my models.
Yes, the blind spot is intentional. I hope that the SCP shoot-through-hull fix is still in effect, otherwise it'll look awfully funny.
At least the blind spot is less than the mjolners

Some pics I took a few days ago, but couldn't upload 'cause someone was filling another part of the HD penguinbomb shares with crap. I tried the panels at 60 degrees, and they looked like crap. So they're at 45 degrees now, and look pretty good.

[KARMA]

I liked more the precedent orientation of the panels:)
btw, what's the trianglecount/size?

[Anaz]

Originally posted by KARMA
I liked more the precedent orientation of the panels:)
btw, what's the trianglecount/size?

it'd probably be about 1/2 the size of the fenris along the TS x-axis. The triangle count is 1479 without the fighterbeams yet.

Some of the geometry has questionable stability, so that number might go up

[Liberator]

When I said rotate the panels I meant so the thin part faces the main body of the station.  Still looks like a million bucks though!

[Anaz]

Originally posted by Liberator
When I said rotate the panels I meant so the thin part faces the main body of the station.  Still looks like a million bucks though!

that'd be messy...I'd have to re-build the majority of the power section, and I don't think it'd look quite as cool

[Knight Templar]

Indeed. Verticle dealies give it personality.