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What about extending the arms that connect the warp engines and bringing them along side the ship making it look more like a bird? it would be a change from the normal fed designs.

Its an interesting idea, could you post a pic of what you mean?

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If you dont mind me cuting up an image of the model.

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Not at all, go right ahead.

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i attached it thats the best i can do with gimp lol i realy have to find my photoshop cd lol had to reinstall my computer. This way you can add pulse phasers along each wing. I left one side normal so you can compare.

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Oooo! That looks nice! Just make sure it doesn't end up resembling the Sabre too much.

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I had another thought lol if i keep having them its not going to look anything like an akira lol my idea is to change the weapons pod right try to explain this now. you know how the engine wings go down on say a 35 degrees anlge do a nice long thin pod that does that and is higher up that way you can bring those two leg things that goes all the way down the ship and make them connect at the end bit like a V.

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Cpt.Blue wrote:

I had another thought lol if i keep having them its not going to look anything like an akira lol my idea is to change the weapons pod right try to explain this now. you know how the engine wings go down on say a 35 degrees anlge do a nice long thin pod that does that and is higher up that way you can bring those two leg things that goes all the way down the ship and make them connect at the end bit like a V.

I'm pretty sure you're talking about something similar to the weapons pod pylons on the Akira Class--they're at nearly the same angle and shape as the nacelle pylons.

That would probably look really good, though it would also probably end up looking much like the stern of an Akira Class.

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Ok here is a realy bad drawing of that ship with a few changes i think adding a little bit sticking out that has the sensor on would look good and moving those long bits in and doing a realy nice sleek looking pod ok here comes my realy bad drawing its just an idea of what im going on about and to show the posisoons please pretend its the model in over posts with the bits extended/added and moved.

Im so embarrased just like to say sorry to Raven Night for cutting up is ship and moving things round etc if im p**ing you off please just tell me and i will stop....... maybe.

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Ill tell you what...you replace this in your sig...

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I think if im visualising cpt.blue's suggestion properly it looks kinda cool. I think his idea is have the front of the ship the same way but have the back of the ship look like its dragging itself along. so have a kindof compact front section and a drawn out rear section. Have the nacelle struts angling upwards and have the torpedo pod as a thinner wider section on top of the bridgeing strut. refer to his drawing to see what i mean.

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Well, here it is with the nacelles swept much farther forward and outboard. I dont think it works. If I move the nacelles farther back, it still doesn't gel right. I think the smaller nacelle struts look like a better match.

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Oh, and btw, I already added the cannons under the wings, ala Scorpion style.

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Lol you i think it looks great if you add the longer thiner weapons pod that slop down on the same angle as the wings it will enhance the look lol

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The wings and nacelle positions when they're swept forward like that, although looking kinda cool, show Romulan influence. I thought we were going for Klingon influence here?

By the way, i like the nacelle design. Very Klingon-inspired.

And: THOSE CANNONS ROCK!

[Note: Have any of the BC2 Fed ships got like Bird-of-Prey wings that drop out of the bottom of the saucer? Can't remember if i've seen that somewhere or thought it up (or dreamt it), just thought i'd mention it. Not for this ship, just in general.]

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Maybe they are going for Klingon influence but in the early days the kligon and romulan designs where basicaly the same they both use birds as a template. I think that the feds should go more of cross between all 3 as each design has its strengths, but overall it still looks fed to me just that it looks like they are experimenting with more bird like war designs.

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Raven Night wrote:

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