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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Huh. I bet someone here has that shuttle if you posted it.

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Originally posted by Zipacna:

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
Huh. I bet someone here has that shuttle if you posted it.

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It's on JOAT as the Jefferies-Type shuttle.
Although I'd be all in favour of it being built and the series being made with sock puppets...would give a low-budget "Pigs in Space" vibe to things.

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Originally posted by Reverend:
The front view pylons were just place holders, so it looks like I never finished it, or Bernd just happened to have an earlier WIP image. I vaguely recall intending to have the pylons fold down for flight but don't recall how far I got with it. Either way the master file is probably buried in some old backup disk from 3 PCs ago.

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Hmmm.... perhaps somewhere on Photobucket or some other image site? Remember, we are all nitpickers, so we are only satisfied with the best.

Seems like I *might* have had another version until my D: drive went to the 'happy hunting grounds'. I assumed that the JOAT version was the final "published version".

Masao, any thoughts to the Class name? Vance has rechristened his version of this design after Mandel's "Independence Class", if I remember right. My own thoughts on this are that (1) Mandel's design should stand on its own (warts and all) as a sister design (from the same UFP "corporation" or maybe even designer) and (2) "Independence" was a bit of an overkill for naming a freighter class in the first place (particularly a 'Starfleet' freighter as opposed to a civilian one), but presumably he was trying to emulate the WWII "Liberty" ships, as FASA later directly did. So I would encourage you to be creative and find some new name that is neither silly nor too prestigious... preferably one that isn't already in use.