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REALLY WEIRD Imperial Star Destroyer!

Posted: 2005-06-05 02:58am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
http://www.dcmstarships.com/gallery-zervaffenthan.html

Very interesting, but I'd have used half the number of guns, possibly made a few of them bigger. I like the double tower, however. Very Venatorish. I severely dislike the two chevrons on the upper hull. Also, the glowy bits on the reactor bulb scream "BULLSEYE!" and the enlarged docking bays are a bit excessive. Overall, it's a good effort despite its flaws...

Posted: 2005-06-05 03:39am
by Shroom Man 777
Wow. Psychadelic.

And I agree. The chevrons, ugh. Too much turbolasers and what's up with that lava lamp reactor? It looks like some sort of Disco Star Destroyer or something. Bleh.

The guy who did this obviously had skills, but didn't quite have that much in the way of aesthetics :P

EDIT:

And the pic with it opening up and releasing salvos of salvos of deathrays just reminds me of something out of an anime.

Posted: 2005-06-05 06:58am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Oh my God, somebody pimped out a Star Destroyer...

That thing is almost pure trash.

Posted: 2005-06-05 01:01pm
by YT300000
Hmmm. There should be spinners on the comm bulbs. :P

Posted: 2005-06-05 01:19pm
by Grandmaster Jogurt
At least he admits that the guns are too big. Nothing about how there's too bloody many of them, though...

Posted: 2005-06-05 01:25pm
by Firefox
Is there some reason for the grills over the sublight engines?

I'd eliminate most of the big turrets and shrink the rest down, get rid of the gaudy paint job and restore the ventral bulb to normal. The turrets look pretty cool despite their size, though, and the bridge tower wouldn't be bad without a few tweaks.

Posted: 2005-06-05 01:33pm
by SyntaxVorlon
The decals make it go faster.
This is funny is all I can say.

Posted: 2005-06-05 02:57pm
by Lord Zentei
Ain't no such thing as too many heavy turbolasers.

The chevrons look terrible though.

Posted: 2005-06-05 04:38pm
by Darth Bowser
That's alot of heavy guns. Wonder why he dropped the size of the ship overall though.

Posted: 2005-06-05 04:55pm
by Batman
Okay, what in blazes would I want sublight communications for?
The comm lag can be bad enough with lightspeed transmissions!
Overall I'd have to say-weird.

Posted: 2005-06-05 05:07pm
by Lord Revan
If you ask me, it too much "wanna Wank my ride" like.
Too many big guns and Jar Jar Binks would be able to hit those hangars.

Posted: 2005-06-05 06:03pm
by Fire Fly
His ship has too many weapons and not a big enough power source. The dorsal and ventral aft heavy weapons around the super structure are fine, but the guns at the midsection and on the tower is a little wankish. The chevrons could be dropped but otherwise, nice.

Posted: 2005-06-06 08:43pm
by CDiehl
My problem is with the structure the tower rises out of. It comes up too abruptly for my tastes, though I might simply be used to the version on the SDN logo. Also, I really don't understand why he thinks putting the top part on two thin towers increases its survivability, when they look rather narrow. I'd either put it on a single, thick tower or just build it into the hull.

Posted: 2005-06-06 10:23pm
by Master of Ossus
Sorry, I'm not feeling that design. It STINKS of the worst kind of kit-bashing, rather than feeling like a new ship all of its own. The number of pasted-on, huge gun turrets is a dead giveaway, and the silly coloring on the bottom seal the deal.

Fine rendering, though.

Posted: 2005-06-07 01:53am
by RedImperator
Again, I have to ask: if people think it's possible to wank out an ISD with an inordinate number of giant guns, why didn't fucking KDY think of that?

Posted: 2005-06-10 09:18pm
by Lord Zentei
RedImperator wrote:Again, I have to ask: if people think it's possible to wank out an ISD with an inordinate number of giant guns, why didn't fucking KDY think of that?
My comment for one, was in jest - though I do think the KDY could position those HTLs more efficiently. ;)

Posted: 2005-06-10 10:54pm
by SPOOFE
Again, I have to ask: if people think it's possible to wank out an ISD with an inordinate number of giant guns, why didn't fucking KDY think of that?
It's the EU's fault. People saw the Eclipse and thought, "Huh! So it's just a matter of SAYING it's umpteen-times stronger, eh?"

Posted: 2005-06-10 11:06pm
by AniThyng
Well to be fair this isn't supposed to be a Star Destroyer from the SW universe. For all we know those guns could be weak, high volume low firepower guns. They remind me of old WWII BB 40mm gun tubs...

Posted: 2005-06-11 01:03am
by Zor
This is what happens when you let those wacky Japanese Car Customizers become a KDY Engineer.

Zor

Posted: 2005-06-11 02:37am
by Singular Quartet
Zor wrote:This is what happens when you let those wacky Japanese Car Customizers become a KDY Engineer.

Zor
Latinos, actually, but yeah. That's exactly it, really.

Posted: 2005-06-11 03:26am
by Illuminatus Primus
Why do people think they can glue guns everywhere and anywhere?

Posted: 2005-06-11 03:50am
by HemlockGrey
I'm getting flashbacks to Manji and his dirigibles with 16 inch guns.