New images!

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Monday, March 23, 2020 - 08:00 pm: Edit

Good looking strakes !!!

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Monday, March 23, 2020 - 11:35 pm: Edit

Cool.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 12:13 pm: Edit

Very clever positioning of the "neck" strakes - certainly highlights the bird motif the ship is going for. Would the Paravians be approving or jealous, I wonder?

It does look like the prow sits somewhere between the SparrowHawk-A+ and Fast SparrowHawk-A+ in design, which is good.

Could it be an option to raise the port and starboard nacelles slightly?

Also, should there be a difference in size between the S- and M-torp launchers?

By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 03:43 pm: Edit

The torp launchers are different, just hard to tell from the front. The perspective image shows it better.

As for raising the nacelles, that would require basically starting over, can't just bend them without really messing up the geometry :D

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 10:02 am: Edit

I like this design. There really is only one small thing in that it looks throaty (or chest-y) in the side view. It’s too much to say pelican as the issue is further back but...Can any of that look be adjusted?

As for the nacelles I don’t think they look bad but I think what’s being said it to check whether or not the front view should have the centerline of the engines match the centerline of the struts, which could be achieved by rolling the engines up and outward slightly.

Great details and another cool design!

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 11:16 pm: Edit

I took a second look, and it appears that the M-torp launcher is smaller than the S-torp launchers. If so, it should perhaps be the other way around; in SFB terms, S-torps have "dual-space" launchers, whereas the M-torp has a "three-space" launcher.

If or when the SparrowHawk-EX (and/or the FireHawk-EX) is (or are) being looked at, might it be an option to swap out the Centurions from the non-X SparrowHawk-E+ mini with StarHawks? That might help further distinguish the Romulan X-PFTs from their non-X forebears.

Speaking of which, it would be neat if a would-be "REDHawk" mini had both a Centurion flotilla and a StarHawk flotilla. Although I'm not quite sure if SFB allows that, or requires all 12 PFs to be of one type or the other...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 10:03 am: Edit

Matt can send this ship to Jean when he is happy with it.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 08:33 pm: Edit

After looking at existing designs already published I retract my comments from 3/25 as the warp engines look pretty much the same in alignment.

And the bulky look of the rear hull is much improved in the above design by softening the corners/edges.

I should have looked there first, my apologies.