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Offline Raptor

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Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Well, not that big, but big enough, I think... (It'd be ~106m x 92m x 28m when done)




Intended to have 12 gunpoints, 1 possible micro beam, 4 missile banks and 7 turrets (hence name, Hydra)

Still needs detail (ie inserts for the red glowly bit, the current red stuff is mainly there so you can see the curret details) but I want to make sure I'm making it 'Shivan' enough...
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Offline bfobar

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Thats like a seraphim on crack. Why not make the missile banks into missile turrets and just call it a gunboat?

I'd put a microbeam on primary, 1 secondary bank with bombs, and then just give it gun and missile turrets for the rest.

As for shivan, the wings look a little to winglike. It say make them look more bug like or fin like, but otherwise I like the engines and triangle in the nose. very shivan.
« Last Edit: March 08, 2006, 02:55:27 am by bfobar »

 

Offline Blue Lion

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
What class of ship is it?

 

Offline Roanoke

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
reminds me of the Bassalisk.

  

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
More like a Basilisk on steroids.

I like the main hull, but the wings kill it for me, they don't look shivan at all.

(edited for grammar justice)
« Last Edit: March 14, 2006, 12:32:09 pm by Col. Fishguts »
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Offline Unknown Target

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
It's like the next iteration of a Basilisk. Looks neat, just do something better with those wings :)


 

Offline Flipside

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
It's a great start, but it still looks too 'Terran' to me. It needs something to make it look more 'Shivan'.

 

Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Change the wings more to like the one on the side of the Dragon.  You could even go for asymetry.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
More pointy-ness on the wings. Vertical stablizers too.

Also for some reason a gull-wing design strikes me as extremely Terran. I can't really justify that, but it does.
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Offline Taristin

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Athena-Basilisk lovechild.  Keep at it though. Make it assymetrical for one thing :)
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Offline Mehrpack

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
hi,
mmhhh looks really interesting and nice.
good work.

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Offline FireCrack

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Looks good, if you want to rtweak the wings try looking at the nephlim
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline Raptor

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Yea, I had a feeling it was the wings that were causing the 'Terran' vibe...

I was aiming for wings like on the Nepllihim fused to a Bailisk hull.  'Fraid I'm not a fan of aysemetry, so that won't change (it also makes it easier to UV map + texture)

I'll have a stab at it tomorrow morning, have packing to do...
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Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
I do like the way you made the aft dorsal hull resemble the Demon.  You could use to add some further detail to the nose though.  I do realize however, that this is by no means a complete state.  One further suggestion... that ventral spike.  It looks a little weak.  You could expand it somewhat to more like a fin, like the Ravana's spikes, though perhaps not quite so rounded... it'd break with the style of the rest of the ship.  You could have it hook forward where a beam turret (as in, not player controled) would be mounted for anti-cap attacks.
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Offline Raptor

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
As promised, some more work.

I've added inserts to the forward fuslage, added some extra ventral fins and reworked the central one, plus completely rebuilt the 'wings' (well, the middle and end sections.  I'm reluctant to rework the upper missile racks since added those little spikes on the front was a pain and a half)



...There ought to be something surreal about a Zoid offering romantic advice...and yet there is not. It seems perfectly normal that the Liger is giving Bit advice on relationships, and it shouldn't, but it does. Dangit man, you've confused me again.[/I]
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Offline Nuke

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
this kinda has that fs1 feel to it, i like.
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Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
I'd suggest you reduce the span of the old wing sections, and increase the size of the new wing segments by 2 or more.
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Offline Ulala

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
I think it needs more spikes.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
Vertical stablizers still need work...get rid of those chevrons on the wings, too.
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Offline Descenter

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Re: Big Nasty Shivan Craft...
More a like a Basilisk on steroids.

My thoughts exactly..Looks good, however, the engine things on the back look a little out of place, IMO
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