[BlackDove]

For future reference - five exclamation marks or more is a sign of a diseased mind. It's to be ignored

[Sandwich]

What are seven a sign of?

[FireCrack]

A prion based disease of the brain.

[knn]

Back on topic
First attempt at rear windowing and a platform for the beam cannon:
Have to add more windows to the center,


And some very WIP detail for the neck:

[pecenipicek]

*drools*

vewy vewy nice mister knn. vewy vewy nice.

[StratComm]

Change the way those windows are mapped at some point; the three levels should not have distinctly different window patterns.

[knn]

Fixored

[Sandwich]

As a delayed response, I do like the idea of a kind of form-fitting engine exhaust up top - there's enough precedent for it. It's just the distorted circles I dislike.

[WMCoolmon]

I like the way the new engines look. Get rid of that awful texture stretching and they will be FTW.

[Herra Tohtori]

Heh, it works even better than I thought it would do... 

Now it actually looks like the thrust could point directly backwards. Are you planning to do a similar thing to lower engines too?

[knn]

Yes, the blue exhausts will be similar on the lower ones too

[Admiral Nelson]

I think you have done an outstanding job so far.  Have you thought about doing anything with the after dorsal twin turret?  It always struck me as odd to have a turret directly behind an engine.  One would think it would be fried by the engine wash.  Perhaps it can be depressed a bit to be out of the direct exhaust?

[Gregster2k]

Wouldn't that affect its firing range slightly though?

[knn]

Just discovered:



If you look at this picture, you'll see that the turret is between the thrusters. In this picture, the blue cylinders are the same size as the holes , so the actual thrusters inside the holes are smaller. Sorry, but I can't post an updated render now.
So it's not such a big problem

[Ulala]

Looks fantastic. 

[Galemp]

Splendid!
You still need to do something about that nameplate positioning though. Maybe you can move the nameplate to the front, facing forwards, just below the forwardmost dorsal turret, or to the sides of the back, under the rows of windows.

[starfox]

I'd say, put the nameplate under the rows of Windows. Looks more natural that way...
Great work on the Iceni, by the way....

[knn]

What's wrong with the current position?

[starfox]

Nothing, absolutely nothing. I just imagined it would look slightly better to my eye. But then again my views sometimes do not coincide with the eye of the "public", or more experienced ones. 

[knn]

Noone says it cannot have more than one pair of nameplates 

Don't want to overdo it tho

BTW, what should the polycount be? I was thinking about 10k, and it's 9k now (will be optimized tho)