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« Reply #60 on: 10 May 2016, 20:50:21 »
They are collars but there's a lot of space between them, something is going to be added for scale but there would be room between them.  And during launch there's probably something akin to air traffic control so each dropship goes up at its own time, thus avoiding any issues with launch.
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« Reply #61 on: 10 May 2016, 21:03:41 »
I had thought about the Air Traffic Control thing as well, but I was also thinking in terms of Emergency Scramble/Jettison in case things went south.

However you are the one doing the commissions and the results are pretty cool.
(also, I don't suppose you could get them to redo the Avalon somewhere down the road - you know, with "prongs" facing forward instead of backward? :) )
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« Reply #62 on: 10 May 2016, 21:23:59 »
I had thought about the Air Traffic Control thing as well, but I was also thinking in terms of Emergency Scramble/Jettison in case things went south.

However you are the one doing the commissions and the results are pretty cool.
(also, I don't suppose you could get them to redo the Avalon somewhere down the road - you know, with "prongs" facing forward instead of backward? :) )

I'd say the Avalon looked fine, I just wish I knew what the front and back of the ship was :p
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« Reply #63 on: 10 May 2016, 23:48:57 »
I'd say the Avalon looked fine, I just wish I knew what the front and back of the ship was :p

It was fine... until someone clarified that the tower end is the front and the "prongs" are the back... :)
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« Reply #64 on: 11 May 2016, 02:16:01 »
It was fine... until someone clarified that the tower end is the front and the "prongs" are the back... :)

Ahh so the art has us looking at it from the aft starboard quarter and she's moving away from us?  Fair enough!
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« Reply #65 on: 11 May 2016, 16:59:38 »
I like the Leviathan refit sketch as a new warship design, but I kind of have a hard time seeing it as an actual Leviathan. It's just too flat, I think. I know that was the whole point of doing the commission, but it will still take some time to get used to.

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« Reply #66 on: 11 May 2016, 17:08:47 »
I like the Leviathan refit sketch as a new warship design, but I kind of have a hard time seeing it as an actual Leviathan. It's just too flat, I think. I know that was the whole point of doing the commission, but it will still take some time to get used to.

Hopefully Plog will put in the Vincent for scale, she's 'flat' but still around 300 meters tall, and she's around 6 - 700 meters wide at her widest. A svelt thing she is not.
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« Reply #67 on: 11 May 2016, 20:41:59 »
The Leviathan reminds me of mobile Shopping Mall / Beer Refinery way it's draw. No offense to Doug Chaffee, but it really doesn't look very ship like.
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« Reply #68 on: 12 May 2016, 00:36:56 »
I'd say the original one suffered from that, but looked more like a mobile office block and because she was absurdly tall it somehow made her look short.
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« Reply #69 on: 18 May 2016, 13:51:16 »
Catching up, the Black Lion, McKenna and Nightlord are still my faves but the Leviathan is pretty sweet, too.
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« Reply #70 on: 20 May 2016, 06:33:31 »
Ahh so the art has us looking at it from the aft starboard quarter and she's moving away from us?  Fair enough!

I think the Avalon as like a 1950s style Cadillac with big fins, but in this case straight out verses flaring up.

It was interesting that so many people have always been confused that the TRO picture showing the ship leaving. It's dropship escorts are near it heading the same direction.

Lesser known picture was of  Avalon being in a shipyard, where you get see a front of the ship.
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« Reply #71 on: 20 May 2016, 06:55:17 »
Its a nice pic too :) I think what confused me was that the engine plume did not look like engine plume, it looked like two MASSIVE lasers firing.
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« Reply #72 on: 20 May 2016, 08:46:49 »
It like the look of the Avalon, I just wish the actual design had the fins to the front and the tower in the back - sort of reminiscent of the Narn Ships from Babylon Five. Instead the tower is in the front and it reminds me of the Alliance Cruiser from the Firefly TV series (which you look at and go whaaaa?!?!?!?)
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« Reply #73 on: 20 May 2016, 09:24:07 »
It like the look of the Avalon, I just wish the actual design had the fins to the front and the tower in the back - sort of reminiscent of the Narn Ships from Babylon Five. Instead the tower is in the front and it reminds me of the Alliance Cruiser from the Firefly TV series (which you look at and go whaaaa?!?!?!?)

Yeah the long rearward prongs do look kind of like a Bin'tak class dreadnought;



If the bridge was at the 'front' of the picture instead of being at the actual bow... Oh well!
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« Reply #74 on: 24 May 2016, 00:33:52 »
Well the big boy's done :)  A great (slightly early) Birthday present she is too!

My 'beef' with the Leviathan is that it was too tall, her massive height (easily 400 meters from looking at the pics).  This combined to somehow make a 1600+ meter long ship look somehow quite short and squat.  Also the SPACE PIPES!!! (possibly related to SPACE PANTS! -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwpmqMnngRk ) I would assume they are some form of docking collar but NOT dropship collars. 

So Plog went ahead and flattened out the Leviathan, whilst keeping it's general asthetic and look mostly intact.  She's still tall, at about 300 meters, but she's now 6 - 700 meters wide at her widest part.  And as a lil in thing, the engine section is modelled after that on Spaceball 1 :p

And there is a banana for scale!  Because a dropship would barely be visible, Plogg added the Vincent, so you've got a 400 meter long ship for scale.

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« Reply #75 on: 24 May 2016, 05:10:25 »
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« Reply #76 on: 25 May 2016, 21:56:12 »
Well the big boy's done :)  A great (slightly early) Birthday present she is too!

My 'beef' with the Leviathan is that it was too tall, her massive height (easily 400 meters from looking at the pics).  This combined to somehow make a 1600+ meter long ship look somehow quite short and squat.  Also the SPACE PIPES!!! (possibly related to SPACE PANTS! -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwpmqMnngRk ) I would assume they are some form of docking collar but NOT dropship collars. 

So Plog went ahead and flattened out the Leviathan, whilst keeping it's general asthetic and look mostly intact.  She's still tall, at about 300 meters, but she's now 6 - 700 meters wide at her widest part.  And as a lil in thing, the engine section is modelled after that on Spaceball 1 :p

And there is a banana for scale!  Because a dropship would barely be visible, Plogg added the Vincent, so you've got a 400 meter long ship for scale.

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« Reply #77 on: 26 May 2016, 17:30:51 »
That's amazing art work done.  Certainly made her prettier.

In risking at being yelled at as a nitpick, but isn't the Leviathan bit small in-comparison to the Vincent cruising behind her?
I''d think she was bigger.
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« Reply #78 on: 26 May 2016, 17:35:03 »
That's amazing art work done.  Certainly made her prettier.

In risking at being yelled at as a nitpick, but isn't the Leviathan bit small in-comparison to the Vincent cruising behind her?
I''d think she was bigger.
The Vincent is like a pufferfish, trying to scare others away with a lot of empty volume.  ;)
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« Reply #79 on: 26 May 2016, 23:04:41 »
That's amazing art work done.  Certainly made her prettier.

In risking at being yelled at as a nitpick, but isn't the Leviathan bit small in-comparison to the Vincent cruising behind her?
I''d think she was bigger.

The original art for the Levi makes her look quite squat and dumpy because its so damn tall, what Plog's done here is flatten her out and broaden her, the scale is that the Vincent is flying JUST beneath her with a few tens of meters to spare between them.  The Vincent isn't that small, its 400 meters long and with her being that close it does give a sense of scale
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« Reply #80 on: 27 May 2016, 13:17:56 »
Wow, wow, wow.

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« Reply #81 on: 29 May 2016, 04:18:09 »
The Vincent is like a pufferfish, trying to scare others away with a lot of empty volume.  ;)

Um yeah...but its armament isn't exactly the naval equivalent of tetrodotoxin.  :D

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« Reply #82 on: 29 May 2016, 04:28:33 »
Um yeah...but its armament isn't exactly the naval equivalent of tetrodotoxin.  :D

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True in Warship terms the Vincent's about as threatning as a kitten nibbling on your finger :p But she tries hard bless her!
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« Reply #83 on: 29 May 2016, 04:41:15 »
Um yeah...but its armament isn't exactly the naval equivalent of tetrodotoxin.  :D

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Well it can destroy other warships, if it can get close enough to jump out next to them........ But if that happens, then the enemy captain is too dumb to live anyway.
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« Reply #84 on: 29 May 2016, 04:52:18 »
Well it can destroy other warships, if it can get close enough to jump out next to them........ But if that happens, then the enemy captain is too dumb to live anyway.

Basically this is what a Vincent does when it sees anything it thinks is a threat.



The Vinny is a patrol boat and armed coast guard vessel, against dropships and operating in squadrons she's happy, but a lone Vincent is a sad and nervous Vincent, easily startled and skittish.
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« Reply #85 on: 31 May 2016, 15:23:00 »
Ships are on their way! ETA ...some time soon.

Lets see if you can ID the classes.

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« Reply #86 on: 31 May 2016, 16:34:18 »

Sovetskii Soyuz and Liberator (Cruiser)?
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« Reply #87 on: 31 May 2016, 17:04:26 »
Sovetskii Soyuz and Liberator (Cruiser)?

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« Reply #88 on: 01 June 2016, 16:34:43 »
Cruisers have arrived!

The Liberator Class Cruiser CSJ Korat

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And the Sovetskii Soyuz Class (glorified over hyped frigate) Ahem...Cruiser CWS Dire Wolf

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With these ones we kept mostly with the re-done art's general design but Plog brought them up to modern standards.  With the Liberator the rear was bulked out slightly to go in line with the fluff about her having a great cargo capacity (which isn't backed up by the rules and as a cruiser has the smallest cargo capacity of any Clan warship its size).  You can still see hints of the original art's design as well as nods to the Avatar's art in it.

With the Sov Soy the 'cobra hood' of the hull was extended further up the neck to make it look a bit more strutrually solid rather than a SHOOT ME HERE FOR MAXIMUM DAMAGE design flaw.  The engine bay was also enlarged to accommodate her wider hull and neck faring, with the addition of a second main thruster, instead of there just being one massive main drive, there's now two smaller ones.  I liked the general design of the re-done art even if I think the Sovietskii Soyuz is a TERRIBLE ship and should just be re-rated as a Frigate so the general design remained the same, just brought up to Plog's amazing modern standards of art.


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« Reply #89 on: 01 June 2016, 17:55:56 »

They look great, good work by Plug, thanks!
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