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Offline DarthWang

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What do the different ships remind you of?
on: July 28, 2005, 04:03:36 am
Just state what the ships remind you of, sort of what they look like.

I'll start with the destroyers and other big ships:

Terran:

Orion: Sort of a boxy surgical needle

Hecate: Some kind of battering ram

Hades: An old - fashioned rocket

Colossus: Some kind of rifle

Arcadia: A moon with a ring around it (when viewed from a certain angle on the side)

Vasudan:

Typhon: Some sort of fish

Hatshepsut: A vacuum cleaner

Shivan:

Ravana: A leg bone

Demon: A horseshoe crab

Lucifer: A lobster

Sathanas: A snake's head
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Offline Rson

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What do the different ships remind you of?
Reply #1 on: July 28, 2005, 05:27:59 am
Ravana = a sort of large ray-gun type thing

Orion =  a collection of random geometric shapes crudely glued together (that's most Terran ships)

Sathanas =  a bird's talon (look at it from the front)

Rahkshasa = a cylinder
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Offline DarthWang

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Reply #2 on: July 28, 2005, 06:43:17 am
I think it looks more like a snake's head because it has fangs and a hood in the back like a cobra
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Offline Roanoke

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Reply #3 on: July 28, 2005, 07:43:31 am
Rakshasa - spider (large abdomen and all that)
 

Offline Taristin

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Reply #4 on: July 28, 2005, 08:10:18 am
I can see this thread going baaad places.

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We'll see...
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Reply #5 on: July 28, 2005, 08:45:18 am
Ravana: Living tool from Geneforge/Geneforge 2. Spiky bits...

Elysium: one of those ugly boxlike Hondas or whoeverthecrapmadethem. They're boxes and they move people.
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #6 on: July 28, 2005, 09:33:13 am
Erinyes: clothespin

Aeolus: dustbuster

Tauret: a turtle
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Offline TopAce

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What do the different ships remind you of?
Reply #7 on: July 28, 2005, 09:36:03 am
I don't really know why you are bashing :v:'s models so much. With fantasy, anything can remind you to anything. It seems most people here consider it bad (respect to exceptions).

The main problem is that user-made mods may also remind people to something bad. Actually, more user-made mods are such.

The GVF Reshef, for example is a flying facehugger in space, cloned from the Aliens universe.

So Volition models are no worse in this field.
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Offline karajorma

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Reply #8 on: July 28, 2005, 09:48:04 am
Who said it was bad?
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Offline General Freak

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Reply #9 on: July 28, 2005, 09:52:19 am
Not all of the metaphors are bad. Maybe the Honda one, but only because the adjective 'ugly' was used.

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Offline Taristin

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Reply #10 on: July 28, 2005, 10:22:44 am
And it's not Honda, it's Toyota, the Scion xB. Ugly POS boxcar.
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #11 on: July 28, 2005, 10:40:33 am
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The GVF Reshef, for example is a flying facehugger in space, cloned from the Aliens universe.


Interesting perspective.  It wasn't designed as one (offhand, it was a symmetrical prawn / flower).
  

Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #12 on: July 28, 2005, 02:50:25 pm
SB Shaitan = a building.
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Offline Turnsky

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Reply #13 on: July 29, 2005, 12:16:36 am
Sathanas: looks kinda like a giant bug, or tick.
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Offline Solatar

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Reply #14 on: July 29, 2005, 12:27:26 am
I always thought the Apollo selection icon n FS1 looked like some sort of weird head/shoulders thing...
 

Offline Carl

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Reply #15 on: July 29, 2005, 12:45:09 am
The Erinyes:

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Offline Akalabeth Angel

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Reply #16 on: July 29, 2005, 12:19:23 pm
I thought they all looked like a penis myself . . . oh wait, that's the user-created ships ;)
 

Offline Nuclear1

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Reply #17 on: July 29, 2005, 12:25:23 pm
No, just the GTD *****.

*waits for the thread to get locked because of that*

I always thought the Aeshma looked like a pooper scooper of some sort. It fits along with the fact that it's full of crap, anyway. ;)
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Offline Boomer

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What do the different ships remind you of?
Reply #18 on: July 29, 2005, 12:25:24 pm
The Artemis:  A swallow or small bird

The Boanerges:  A large chewtoy

The Loki: The bastard child of an Erinyes and a Hercules

The Hercules: A flying toaster.

The Ursa: A really PO'd quarterback on steroids.

The Seth: A turtle

And the Mara: an insect.
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Offline Anaz

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Reply #19 on: July 29, 2005, 04:13:44 pm
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Originally posted by Raa
And it's not Honda, it's Toyota, the Scion xB. Ugly POS boxcar.


There's also the honda element, that thing's rather boxy too.
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