REALLY WEIRD Imperial Star Destroyer!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-06-05 02:58am

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...

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-06-05 03:39am

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

EDIT:

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

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-05 06:58am

Oh my God, somebody pimped out a Star Destroyer...

That thing is almost pure trash.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-06-05 01:01pm

Hmmm. There should be spinners on the comm bulbs.

Grandmaster Jogurt · Post by **Grandmaster Jogurt** » 2005-06-05 01:19pm

At least he admits that the guns are too big. Nothing about how there's too bloody many of them, though...

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-06-05 01:25pm

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.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2005-06-05 01:33pm

The decals make it go faster.
This is funny is all I can say.

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-06-05 02:57pm

Ain't no such thing as too many heavy turbolasers.

The chevrons look terrible though.

Darth Bowser · Post by **Darth Bowser** » 2005-06-05 04:38pm

That's alot of heavy guns. Wonder why he dropped the size of the ship overall though.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2005-06-05 04:55pm

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.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-06-05 05:07pm

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.

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2005-06-05 06:03pm

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.

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2005-06-06 08:43pm

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.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-06-06 10:23pm

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.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-06-07 01:53am

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?

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-06-10 09:18pm

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.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-06-10 10:54pm

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?"

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2005-06-10 11:06pm

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...

Zor · Post by **Zor** » 2005-06-11 01:03am

This is what happens when you let those wacky Japanese Car Customizers become a KDY Engineer.

Zor

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-06-11 02:37am

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.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2005-06-11 03:26am

Why do people think they can glue guns everywhere and anywhere?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-11 03:50am

I'm getting flashbacks to Manji and his dirigibles with 16 inch guns.