Project; "CopyCatsB-Gone"

[elgeeko]

Well, if you design the perfect tank then discover that you can enhance about 30 or 40 different aspects or involved technologies on it, the retrofit is going to have a radical alteration to its appearance.

But you're right of course, you don't just throw out the basic good design, but thats why most of the mark-II's, especially the military ones, are so close to the MK-I's instead of total re-designs.

That being said however, the military doesn't test new tech in old planes, at least not as the later prototypes and certainly not in the production lines.

Think of it like the YF-22 and the F-35 joint strike fighter. I know they are not exactly the same in role, but bear with me here. The F-35 is an improvement on concepts pioneered in the F-22, and it shows, but you can also spot differences. They didn't go back and say "Ok, the F-22 works, now lets test everything we develop for the next 10 years on FA-18's" :laugh:

Personally, I understand why some prefer the Vanilla models, but it seems like the majority would rather see the new MK-II's.
Given that my alterations are not from-the-ground-up changes except in the Griffin's case, as of tomorrow the poll is closed and I resume work on the military MK-II's.

It was an interesting suggestion, and I apprectiate the thought behind it, but since we can't please everyone, ans since the large majority seems to be behind the MK-II's; production continues as planned tomorrow. :)

So, as of tomorrow the debate is 100% closed unless Admins say otherwise.
I don't have any inkling how to turn the poll off, so tomorrow morning Ill grab the final results and put them in a post for posterity, then I will see about finishing the first crack at the Liberator.

Future game-plan; As soon as all the models are done, I'll go back and clean them up for one final parade of the final designs to let people catch any flaws/small last requests, and after that I'll stop taking input and start the laborious task of meticulously hardpointing them to get them ready for submission.

EDIT; Thexare, you have this amazing talent of summing up my doctoral-thesis posts in a single paragraph and ninja-posting it before I finish! :lol:

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