Why are purists "dumb," anyway? Because we want to keep the models looking like the ones we've loved for years? Because we think that

did a pretty damn good job designing their ships? Because we don't see the point in changing a ship to a level which completely negates any resemblance to the original?
(And, for the record, I'm 67% or so sure that Pnakotus was employing the fine art of sarcasm.

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Don't get me wrong here; I'm not bashing what you're working on, or your right as a modeler to make any changes to any ship you want, regardless of what anyone else thinks. Hell, you could hang a giant disco ball from the bottom of the Demon for all I care. (Come to think of it, there's at least one campaign maker out there who'd love that...) And, to be honest, I think that those horns look pretty damn cool. However, by you creating this topic in the Upgrade forum, you're semi-implying that it's intended as a revamping of a canon ship, not a total change. I really wouldn't have any problem with this at all had you created this thread in Modding. However, the way I see it, this forum is generally intended for HTL upgrades to ship models, not all-out re-imagining of them.