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Re: Hercules Class Capital Frigate
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Date: 
Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:48:11 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Peter Guenther writes:
> > Exterior digital shots only right now.  I will get some better photos for
> > the interiors developed and posted later this week or so.
> > 
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3575
> > 
> > Think:  "Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Out"
> 
> Let me be the first to comment since I was so late in my Destroyer opinions.
> Looks great, Trevor!  The sides are very nicely articulated--overall, it's
> got a nice texture.  I love the big guns on top as well, which I know you
> also used for your most recent Destroyer.  I'll have to steal them for one
> of mine.  Hmmm... Alpha team has those engines in black.  That says
> Blacktron to me!!!

Hey, thanks Peter!  :^)  I really tryed to pay attention to the flow of the
hull and the color scheme in this one.  My initial concept sketches had the
"Belly" module in place - in reality it was supposed to completely
integrated, but I think some level of modularity is kind of useful.  As it
stands, the ship can operate without an additional module on it's stomach,
so that's why I wanted to show the ship as is for now.  The bay door on the
little service bay would have to be removed to accomodate a new module perhaps.

> 
> The profile leaves me a little cold though--I don't like the way the
> underside goes up and then abruptly goes horizontal.  I'd like to see that
> smoothed out some with inverse slopes.  We'll see once you've got the belly
> module in.

You're right - You should look at my 'in progress' pics where the top deck
has not been added yet.  It really looks ho-hum at that point.  Well, it's
still a work in progress because I am waiting on some more parts for the
modules that I described.  I will see what I can do to clean the
undeneith-sloping up while I wait to aquire more of the necessary parts for
my modules.

What I would really like to do is have the belly module have some-what
inverse-sloping sides, sort of like Mark Sandlin's industrial automation
freighter, where that "guppy-like" grey cargo hold sloped inwards and
downwards.  A blue version of that (without the 1/4 domes) with a white
stripe and lotsa greebles should look pretty snappy.  It would also tie the
ships lines together a bit better.  Thoughts?

> Great cockpit and some nice details.  I like the antenna clusters.  Looking
> forward to seeing the interior!
> 
> Peter

All in good time, my liege.  All in good time!  :^D

~Trev
Astro Lift Co.



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