Great ship, beautiful line but it s, hmm, Italian design, not communist or soviet or else. Thought your kind of ships have to be robust, functional and i would say "ugly". Design comes last if it comes at all.
Being this as the first design, I do not mind remodeling it at all. Therefore, this time, my inspiration would be the old design from the Sol System (Freelancer Intro Coalition Cruisers). As Arvg did told me to get 'few' ideas from it - but, I was a tad lazy to watch the intro over 100x :laugh:
But, I'll google some more Coalition ships from Freespace, Starlancer and other games that contains similar designs to Freelancer.