[BlasterNT]

The XB Vanir. 

http://p3d.in/TImWj/wireonsmooth

Lots of sliding panels and whatnot.  This is going to be interesting to script ingame. 





And here's the conceptart


I feel like it's the texture that's going to make this interesting, since the amount of greebling and whatnot is limited by the need for things to be smooth and stealthy. 

[An4ximandros]

 This looks really good. I am looking forward to seeing more of this ship!

[Phantom Hoover]

The concept art has an excellently Esaroid flavour to it.

[esarai]

That's some cool stuff, but I recommend giving it more vertical dimension, as right now the cockpit is so narrow that the pilot cant see anything, or this bomber is 30 m tall and 90 m long.

But other than that it's looking really good.  Keep at it!

[An4ximandros]

 Or he could give it no 'cockpit' at all. But we should remember this is a bomber, it might just be that big.

[Phantom Hoover]

A giant bomber would be cool; the intermediate niche between normal bombers and cruisers isn't really one with many models available.

[Scooby_Doo]

Kinda reminds me of a vacuform model kit of a "B-2" way back when I was a kid  (minus the turret stuff)

[Crybertrance]

  PANELS!!!11!!111!1!!1!!!1!

[Luis Dias]

I like its profile's narrowness. Very hard to see in the dark of space. You can make the pilot lie down or something bizarre like that

Paint it super-black. Still can't understand why BP's stealth fighter is only dimmed grey.

Oh, and yeah, that SAY HELLO TO MY SURPRISE TURRETS is awesome

[Kopachris]

I like its profile's narrowness. Very hard to see in the dark of space. You can make the pilot lie down or something bizarre like that

Paint it super-black. Still can't understand why BP's stealth fighter is only dimmed grey.

Oh, and yeah, that SAY HELLO TO MY SURPRISE TURRETS is awesome

Paint it super glossy black.  Give it a good shine map that will reflect stars so you can't see its silhouette.

[Black Wolf]

Looked at it in p3d to understand how it'll all slide and fold away - seems very cool. Looking forward to this one getting finished.

[guitarfan01]

We will be watching your progress with great interest.

[BlasterNT]

I'm simply baffled.  http://p3d.in/TImWj/



And yes, the bottom ones do rotate.  Not entirely sure why you'd want them to, but there you go.  (The hinges on the side flaps in p3d are misplaced for some reason, but they're fine on the actual model)

Thanks for all the feedback so far!  I did a check, and it looks like I'll be able to fit a pilot and WO into the cockpit comfortably if this thing is 70ish m in length.  Still pretty large, granted, but it also fits with the rest of the stuff in my universe, and is comparable to some of the larger custom bombers around here. 

As far as functional things, looks like I still need to model in a rearm bay, landing gear/skids, countermeasure launch port, docking pylons, secondary logistics hatches, and an entryway.  Perhaps I should make the thrusters variable geometry..

[Trivial Psychic]

I feel as Esarai does, that it lacks some vertical variation.  Perhaps make the wing sections a bit thinner or the central body a bit thicker.

[Cyborg17]

Or add some angle: a ^ shape instead of a - shape. So that the cockpit area can be bigger without really needing to make it 70m long.

[BengalTiger]

How about giving it holes in the wings, like the GTF Pegasus or GTF Icarus has?

It seems to be a signature feature of Terran stealth ships.

[BlasterNT]

I should probably make it clear that this isn't intended to be a fs-verse bomber. 

I was envisioning a use case where wings of these things would glide into an ambush point under conventional power (subspace transitions are noisy) and cripple large enemy forces in the area before they have a chance to respond, either as an opening to an attack, or some kind of critical strike.  Because of that, they need to be rather large and self sufficient, and so I was thinking 70 m was an acceptable size. 

When I'm done, I might make a more fs compatible variant with more conventional scaling, and I'm certainly planning on making smaller strike bombers. 

[Phantom Hoover]

It's not that it doesn't look Freespacey, it's that the model is essentially a thick, rounded triangle. It doesn't have much shape to it.

[BlasterNT]

Hmm, I'm not so sure how to give it much more definition, without making it feel unstealthy/borking its target profile. 

[mjn.mixael]

All the sliding panels are neat. I think the problem with this design is in the fundamental reality vs interesting issue. Sure, a nearly angleless/greebleless design is probably more realistically going to be stealthy. However, it's pretty boring. Even with all the opening panels, it's just a boring looking mesh from the outside. I think it would benefit you to try and find a middle ground between it looking like it has the desired functionality and it having real character. Does that make sense?