I love my little hot rod red DBX, I'm game for a few bits here and there added on.
Tho, isn't there a heat vent that raises up near the back of the ship? This kind of looks like it covers that? (a panel opens up on the top rear when the ship gets hot.) Maybe you accounted for that and it's just the angle.
hmm, makes the ship look almost, beetle like, tho, doesn't those front 'jaw' looking thingies cover the side gun ports? again, maybe just the angle.
-Accounted(i think you are talking about the FSD scoop/vent panel), but if problem trouble occours...here we are, all can be adjusted till we are in progress,we can move backward a little bit, but at the time is not necessary i think.
-The ship
have the look of an insect, it's a grasshopper or a locust like design, this (i think) because the ship can jump a lot in spite of its size, i love this nature-oriented design.
than the front bumper try to follow the same concept, again, it's not definitive and if it will eventually be too "heavy" at the end, i will soften or intergrate the concept better.
-cover the side gun ports?...if we are working on the Diamonback Scout,absolutely yes, the concept must be changed, but we are lucky,this is the Diamonback Explorer and if this kind of problems comes (the fire cone obscured),and yes maybe at the moment (i have to check if the fire angle can be negative on the weapons plane) but again,be happy

it's a WIP![yesnod]
I hope you like it after all.
Thank you very much for your constructive observations.
Bye Tygra.
Screen about FSD area:
If you look at the front bumper (the jaw) the weapon should be over the most external corner,including the fixing frame.