You model fans may all ogle the nice shapes and dirty panels, but what I think of is all the FRED-ing possibilities with this many textures to go with the same model.
Using the texture replacement sexp, you could have "elite" (and bright, shiny) honor guard units escorting the Rebel Representatives in a meeting with some Corporate Worlder bureaucrat. As a campaign wears on, you could start out with relatively clean ships and with the progress of missions the ships could get dirtier and dirtier, and by adding some briefing and mission chatter you can truly drive home the impression that the techs, pilots and the whole fleet detachment is under great pressure and fatigue from constant combat.
Another thing: brandx0, you're either going to hate me or hate me and still like the idea.
Did you replace the old geometry, or did you add a non-targetable subsystem over the internals? Beacuse if you did the later, than the panels can be blown off in-mission and the internal will be exposed.
