Idea for new ship, based on an old model

[kikatsu]

This idea popped into my head this morning on the drive to work

I figure that maybe, with a few tweeks and a retexture, our famous pregeagle (the rather obese ship that was our Civi bomber) could easily be turned into a small civilian freighter or transport. The two main gunports have to be edited out of the model, maybe a couple other minor changes and I don't see why it won't fit the role rather well. She certianly looks like she has a cargo bay, and does have the same style as the other ships in the CTE line.

If I had any ship making skills or programs I would get a test model up straight away, but I don't have the skill or software.

Thoughts?

[tansytansey]

In terms of being a freighter, it's probably about the right size. I thought it would be too small, but I underestimated just how big the preagle was... It's only slightly shorter than a Rhino, and about the same width.
It probably needs more tweaking than just removing the torpedo mounts, but it could probably serve as a civilian freighter model.

Are there any import freighters left to be replaced? Civilian ones?

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[Sprolf]

I was actually talking to some people about this a week ago, and we were thinking of basing the freighter off the Starblazer body.

Take that rear hexagonal portion, make it larger, stretch it downward, stretch it back - into a proper cargo bay - and then put fins at the rear.

Of course, there'd be a little more editing than that, but that's the basic gist of the idea.



There could be a larger one made from the Eagle body base, too.

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[elgeeko]

In theory you could actually turn it into a 'pod' style freighter by making recesses in the underside of each 'pregnant' spot, one cargo-pod per side.

It might be cool since only trains and vanilla large freighters have container slots (to my knowledge anyways)

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[Donutman]

It could be put into the infocard, like we did with the Hogosha thing. It used to be a bomber, then The Roc-2 came out and it was turned into a freighter.

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[Bear]

Are there any import freighters left to be replaced? Civilian ones?

yes, the Homeworld civi freighter sold on planet Los Angles

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