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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] [QUOTE]If it were me though I'd maker the hammerheads larger and have the aft "fins" be a mirror image of the front.[/QUOTE]I experimented a lot, if the hammerheads are larger, it makes the ship look smaller. The same way a knife-handle is usually 50% of overall knife-length, but only 15-20% of a sword. Also, the attitude of the bow changed the larger the hammerhead got. I can show you the 10+ variations I made on hammerhead-size, orientation and configuration, but one inescapable fact was that making the aft fins identical to the front and pointing backwards <---> made the sense of direction of the ship too ambiguous, or [URL=http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx150/arnkell_01/Imagejyy1.jpg]made it look like a Nebulon-B frigate.[/URL] Having them point the same way <---< disrupted the visual integrity. In this case the hammerheads have no aero/hydrodynamical value but helps with impeller-wedge dispersion. Also why I mounted no weapons on them. :.) [QUOTE]Also, I'm not sure if the bridge (assuming that's what it is) would be exposed like that.[/QUOTE]Here's the [URL=http://images.wikia.com/honorverse/images/6/68/Reliant_Class.jpg]Nike.[/URL] I believe the bridge is what's shown on top. Regardless, even the thickest superdreadnought hulls got pierced like wet toilet-paper by point-blank shots from "bomb-pumped laser" missiles. More than once were Honor's CIC or bridge penetrated or open to space, and holes occasionally were cut, Borg-style, clean through the hull from side to side (taking the brig with it in one case, holding an unfortunate a-hole). I've never said that my HMS Hammer is the be-all-end-all design for the Honorverse, which "Weber should've used if he'd had half a brain", just the one I preferred when reading and idealizing. I don't feel I'm THAT off in my views, though. It's not like that one Star Wars book cover which had a Jedi shooting Forced Lightning [URL=http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/4/40/Heirtotheempire.jpg]like it was laser-pointers.[/URL] Aside from trying to draw the essence of the ship that formed in my head ten years ago, I wanted to have something that conveyed momentum, confidence and density, with some space for man-o-war/battleship romantic elegance, as best I could. Ship aesthetics has two extremes in each end, artistic and practical. The Andromeda ship in Andromeda and the Minbari cruiser is at the "excessively sculpted or animal-mimicking" extreme, to me. The Nostromo, Leonov and Honorverse ships are "crude industrial pragmatism". I only had two aims, balance between inspirational sources and also assymetry, giving you something your eyes could grab onto, unlike just a long cylinder. I actually had a longer list of "mustn't look like"s than "kinda look like"s, especially with the nose. Now, I've really only put in half the components that make out a Honorverse ship in my design, simply because you guys wouldn't care if there were 2x4 phased gravitic arrays included or not, and because the ones who [i]would[/i] care (Honorverse fans here on Flare) probably are more interested in sacks with doorknobs in them and my home adress. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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