Please FDev, can the majority of options be downplayed, subtle, tasteful and seemingly essential. If not that, can they have a performance-jet aesthetic, as though inspired by some of the most innovative aircraft designs of our era?
Personally, I'm hoping to get a kit for each of my Imperial ships, and am even hoping to see a sleek, curvy kit for a keelback (crazy right!)
Some hopeful wishlisting:
IEagle: Mostly like the Eagle, but allowing for deletion of the spoiler, in favour of other rear wing accessories. Personally, I'm hoping for a kit with a low, wide v-tail, with each tailfin extending from the same mounting as the stock spoiler, as opposed to a spoiler or vertical stabilisers. I think this would give an aggressive, fighter-jet aesthetic, reminiscent of the YF-23. Similar canards to a classic Eagle, and some shaping to the outboard engine nacelles, to perhaps give them a taller, blade-like profile like the Eagle mk1 from earlier titles, and I'm sorted for this sleek, race-ready craft.
Courier: Anything around the nacelles to change up the square box cross section would warrant a look from me, perhaps a pair of inwards canted vertical fins, paired with small winglet extensions outboard of the engines. Pair this with a trailing edge extension that boat-tails the rear of the craft, and a nose kit that extends blended chines into leading edge extensions for the wings. Overall this could inspire a very SR-71 blackbird look from the Courier. Engineers let us make this ship blazingly fast. Let us make it look blazing fast.
Clipper: This ship always felt very business-jet to me, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. A dome that blends the curve of hull above the canopy with the nose and canopy itself a bit more, small vertical elements to the nacelles, and perhaps a few sections of gloss black, to imply passenger spaces with sweeping windows, like the ships from S-K.
Cutter: I don't own one of these yet, so I will withold comment on this ship.
Keelback: I'd love a kit that adds curved lines from bow to stern if used as a collective kit. Rounded shoulders, with redesigned retrothrusters firing through slim, curved slots. Engine nacelles given the Gutamaya treatment with subtle kite-shield shape, extended tail structure that slims into pointed trailing edges framing fixed engines, which are fitted with sleek nozzle housings. All sections interlocking to give curved lines from end to end, and picked out in blue neon. Heck, if the canopy can be refitted, can we get something like the Asp, but frameless? Or alternatively, can we get an Imperial ship with a similar role?
To those reading this on the forums what kits do you want for the imperial ships, if any?
Personally, I'm hoping to get a kit for each of my Imperial ships, and am even hoping to see a sleek, curvy kit for a keelback (crazy right!)
Some hopeful wishlisting:
IEagle: Mostly like the Eagle, but allowing for deletion of the spoiler, in favour of other rear wing accessories. Personally, I'm hoping for a kit with a low, wide v-tail, with each tailfin extending from the same mounting as the stock spoiler, as opposed to a spoiler or vertical stabilisers. I think this would give an aggressive, fighter-jet aesthetic, reminiscent of the YF-23. Similar canards to a classic Eagle, and some shaping to the outboard engine nacelles, to perhaps give them a taller, blade-like profile like the Eagle mk1 from earlier titles, and I'm sorted for this sleek, race-ready craft.
Courier: Anything around the nacelles to change up the square box cross section would warrant a look from me, perhaps a pair of inwards canted vertical fins, paired with small winglet extensions outboard of the engines. Pair this with a trailing edge extension that boat-tails the rear of the craft, and a nose kit that extends blended chines into leading edge extensions for the wings. Overall this could inspire a very SR-71 blackbird look from the Courier. Engineers let us make this ship blazingly fast. Let us make it look blazing fast.
Clipper: This ship always felt very business-jet to me, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. A dome that blends the curve of hull above the canopy with the nose and canopy itself a bit more, small vertical elements to the nacelles, and perhaps a few sections of gloss black, to imply passenger spaces with sweeping windows, like the ships from S-K.
Cutter: I don't own one of these yet, so I will withold comment on this ship.
Keelback: I'd love a kit that adds curved lines from bow to stern if used as a collective kit. Rounded shoulders, with redesigned retrothrusters firing through slim, curved slots. Engine nacelles given the Gutamaya treatment with subtle kite-shield shape, extended tail structure that slims into pointed trailing edges framing fixed engines, which are fitted with sleek nozzle housings. All sections interlocking to give curved lines from end to end, and picked out in blue neon. Heck, if the canopy can be refitted, can we get something like the Asp, but frameless? Or alternatively, can we get an Imperial ship with a similar role?
To those reading this on the forums what kits do you want for the imperial ships, if any?
