[headdie]

They look good

A bit strange to have pipes on the exterior like that, IMO.

You could hand wave them away as part of the ships heat venting/dissipation system, the unit they all feed into could be a IR emitter, kind of like the optical? heat sinks in Battletech

[Vengence]

Amusingly that was what I had in mind when I did some pipes. Some had heat sinks on them but I figured they'd be more pain than it is worth.

[Snail]

These look awesome, really looking forward to it.

[Vengence]

Slowly trudging along. All but one turret has their base modeled in so they aren't floating in space anymore. With that done the lower spinal cannon now has those neato pipes like the one above it. I'm debating on how to use windows. I imagined that the entire top quadrant of the ship (the white armor) is windowless or has very few windows, being an armored shell. A very thick shell... The slice down the middle of the ship will hold lots of windows, Star Destroyer style.



Ah I compared the two models top view for the first time. The new one looks so much better!

[PsychoLandlord]

I have never seen any of these ships before, and GOOD GOD that is a lot of Gun barrels.

I approve wholeheartedly. 

[Droid803]

28 barrels in 14 twin turrets. :3

New one looks more angular and aggressive.

* Droid803 likes.

[Vengence]

Sadly it is 26 barrels in 13 turrets now. I got rid of the 3rd one on the under side. Aside from the middle one obscuring the back and the front obscuring the middle, I decided against a 3rd underside turret. The thing still has a ton of guns though.

Just as a reminder eh...

Some facts:
Hurricane V is exactly 6km long. So.... those cannons are huge. 16m bore.
A bit of the armor plate skirting out measured 20m thick.... I dunno if it is hollow or not.

[Droid803]

20m of armor sounds about right for a 6km ship.

[Vengence]

I have a small favor if/when I release >_>. Somebody have this new ship blow up the old one.

[MetalDestroyer]

lol. You really want to crush your old model. Do you really hate it so much ? I can do it for you or not.

[Vengence]

I see it more as amusement than actual hatred  . It'd be amusing to see two models of similar looks fight.

[crizza]

Does the new one get the engine sections of the old one?
This ship was one of the first user made ships I stumbled over...and god...I love it^^

[Vengence]

It will  . But the engines are a hallmark of the ship. I gotta spend a lot of time on them and make them look great. On the other hand I also added some more engines .

[Droid803]

OH YES. I love engine clusters

[Vengence]

The ship is not supposed to have a fighter bay, but what do you think of a shuttle bay? Granted FREDers could still make it launch fighters >_>, but the launch bay won't be nearly as.... decked out to look like for launching fighters.

[Droid803]

Well, you could just not give it bay paths, but rather docking points for transports
Of course, POF editing could still convert it to a fighterbay >_>

[Hades]

A shuttle bay is fine. If people want to use it as a fighterbay, I say let them.

[Dragon]

Agreed.
Also, nobody says a shuttlebay can't serve as an emergency fighterbay. It would have trouble carrying fighters, but could refuel them or harbor one or two for repairs (granted, you'd have to get rid of the shuttles for that time).

[headdie]

during combat operations the enemy will probably sort the shuttle problem out for you, or you could just fly them alongside the capital ship while fighter refuel/repairs are underway

[Vengence]

I really hate it when I run into snags. The engine pods are making me pull my hair.