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Love the Howlrunner. I believe you mentioned elsewhere you scaled it down a bit from 11.4m to fit its described niche as a replacement for TIEs in second-line units? Hard to tell from the comparison shot but it looks like it is meant to occupy about the same volume (albeit more horizontal than verti...

fractalsponge1 wrote: ↑2017-10-31 10:13am My thinking is that white means the engine is running hotter, and amber to red is when the engine is running at a lower level. So a ship can transition across the range as it increases acceleration.

Many thanks for the explanation.

Alright, I may have missed the answer to this one in the thread, but is there a significance to the engine color? Engines "tuned" (so to speak) a certain way? Or indicative of a current thrust setting? Regardless, very nice. The blue is striking, while the amber (hat tip to whomever termed...

Beautiful updates. Naturally, the Allegiance is my favorite of your 4ks so far (I just love this ship and the Bellator ), but I am also always happy to see more of the Praetor . Looking forward to the Secutor , whenever it may be spruced up. I also hadn't realized how nice a job you did showing the ...

Also, would I be correct in guessing the armaments of the Procurator-class? 6 x Socket-mounted HTLs/HICs (port and starboard) 24 x Quad-Barrel HTLS (port and starboard, top) 2 x Quad-Barrel HTLs (ventral line) 11 x Quad-Barrel HTLs (hull bottom) 24 x Vertical Launch missile tubes 26 x Quad MTLs (po...

Definitely growing on me. As others have said, very retro feel, especially with the shape of the superstructure. I will be interested to see the ventral views. Right now, feeling like a Spanish galleon to a Praetor mk.II's Nelsonian two-decker.

Really looking forward to seeing this one develop. I already like the comparison with the Vindicator class frigate and the Fulgor razee.

Stunning. I love your Imp ships, but this one is simply gorgeous.

I have my old notes for Republic Venator conversions: Venator [Snip] Venator II variant: [Snip] Venator III variant: [Snip] Would love to see you make these. Ibid, for what little it is worth. :lol: Venator II sounds especially fascinating, something approaching Eleventh Century Remnant 's DDX-14's...

The total RN supply of high caliber ammo was just not that high in 1914. That stuff was very expensive, a complete outfit and was something like 8-10% of the cost of the ship. Buying more ammo prewar would have meant fewer ships got built. Fascinating. Many thanks for the insight of ammo load as a ...

The battlecruiser concept was however like, 190 billion percent effective at the Falkland Islands, where both British ships together took 5 casualties. I bring this up to illustrate a key choice you got to make behind whatever logic. [Snip] If aggregate over time is all that matters meanwhile then ...

[Snip] [Snip] So, we have a fast, flexible ship with a large battery of barrels very well suited to cruiser-killing? Isn't that the definition of a battlecruiser? Fair enough. :) I do hesitate to introduce the term, given the controversies surrounding them, especially after Jutland (never mind the ...

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fractalsponge1 wrote:Comepllor-class Star Cruiser:

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Ack! Forgot that the razee analogy was for the Allegiance (where it fits better, given their 32-pounders against a heavy-frigate's 24-pounders). So, we have a fast, flexible ship with a large battery of barrels very well suited to cruiser-killing?

fractalsponge1 wrote:Comepllor-class Star Cruiser:

Gorgeous. Definitely like the family resemblance to your heavier types. The 40 TT HTLs certainly fit your razeed 64 analogy.

Pretty much same plant. I think Allegiance is a destroyer by budgetary sleight of hand - getting basically a cruiser as "destroyers" past Senate appropriators. Cruiser main plant, destroyer secondaries, cruiser firepower, destroyer speed - get it by taking a cruiser and trimming down as m...

This is something I blocked out a long time ago: a cruiser/battlecruiser design pair for the Impellor-class carrier.... The combat version retains the main reactor, producing ~5.5x ISD power, and adds (or retains rather) a secondary reactor complex where the forward mandible hangar bays would be fo...

hello together, [Snip] but now some statement about the victory....im not happy with it :( Too many gross deviations [Snip] I tend to sit on the sidelines, but here I will echo Crossroads . Our artist has stated he is trying to move it away from the lazy, half-pint Victory that is seen in so many s...

fractalsponge1 wrote:Commissioned piece.
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Sounds promising, particularly moving the design away from ISD-with-fiddly-bits. Looking forward to more.

fractalsponge1 wrote:I interpreted them as searchlights/targeters.

Vehicle Scaling

Always happy to see another scaling shot. Beautiful work.

Edit: Of course only your work could make an AT-AT look like a Chihuahua next to a Bulldog.

fractalsponge1 wrote:The stuff that won't ever be seen:
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Unless you have a lightsaber, thermal detonator, and hoist cable. I must confess, the fiddly bits on the AT-AT have always been especially fascinating.

Didn't want to be the first to comment on these, since my first thought was to channel my inner Oddball:

"An AT-AT has only one weak point and that's its ass. You've got to hit it point blank and you've got to hit it from behind."

Maybe I just don't respect the Imperial Dinobots enough?

For what little it's worth, I counted 50 octuple 30/40 barbettes HTLs (there are 4 on the centerline aft) and 86 or 88 quad MTLs. I did a double-take the first time I counted the MTLs, they do sneak up on you (just for comparison I counted 61 on the Allegiance ). :shock: Most are clustered around th...

That turret is an alternate 30/40. It's basically the model of the axial turrets for chase guns of an ISDI as well. Ah. Gotcha. I tend to forget about the ISDI's axial turrets. The torpedoes probably go about 1/3 to 1/2 the way into the nacelle pod (about where the side vent is after the ...grid ar...

Not the biggest fan of mecha but I do enjoy this one. Feels like the scale I imagined for the X-1 Viper, before I saw the Dark Empire comics (I actually got a hold of the radio dramas before the graphic novels, good old Borders ). Compared to an AT-AT, less payload but perhaps comparable troop capac...

I do like the parallels with the Invincibles (battlecruisers, this time, rather than carriers :p ). ISDs (certainly at least at a strategic level) handling Clone Wars-types as the Invincible & Inflexible did the Scharnhorst & Gneisenau is attractive and has rational arguments for it (I may h...