Develop a Rheinland Polizei Gunship

[Geeky]

[font=Arial Black]Rheinland Federal Polizei ''Harald'' Enforcer Gunboat
I'm currently working on a Project [Rheinland Federal Poliziei Gunship]
I'm working on this stats:

Gun Mounts: 2*/4' [2* Main Guns because the RFP encounters Red Hessian/LWB/Outcast Gunships in they're zone of influence,4' to Mount Secondary Turrets [Anti-Fighter: Gunboat Turrets/Cerberus Gunboat Turrets]

I've maked a 2/4 Battle Rig to mantain a certain ''pair'' between the Other Lawfull/Unlawfull Gunboats of Other-Houses.
SHIP HAS BEEN TEXTURED IN 5 SECONDS [WITH STANDARD TEXTURES,TO SHOW THE MODEL]
Rheinland Textures will be maked and applied later.
Ship Statistics:
Ship Class:Enforcerer Gunboat [Law Gunboat]
Built by:Rheinland Federal Poliziei
Guns/Turrets:2/4
Opt.Weapon Class:8
Max.Weapon Class:8
Additional Equipment: 1x CD
1x CM

Hull Strength: 95000
Max Shield Class:8
Cargo Space:240
Nanobots/Shield Batteries:350/350
Max.Impulse Speed: 80 m/s
Max.Thrust Speed: 140 m/s
Power Output: 650.000 u
Power Recharge: 60.000 u

Ship Price: 55.000.000$ [Sold only to Rheinland Federal Poliziei High Officers/Commanding Officers]

Any Ship that doesn't has the RFP ID on it will be immediatly hunted down and destroyed.
Sanctions by using this ship without the RFP ID and IFF are of 8.000.000$
Infocard: The Rheinland Federal Polizei needed a Peace Keeping force that could punch in heavy on enemy forces.The ''Harald'' Enoforcer Gunboat has been constructed with the help of the Rheinland Military.Few models of this Gunboat exits,and it's restricted to High-Ranking RFP Officers.
***All Credit goes to Illusive Man*** :cool:
Here is the ''Harald''
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx126/C...pg?t=1272737981

That is an X3 Reunion import. Imports are no no.

[Luis]

That is an X3 Reunion import. Imports are no no.

It is :mellow:

Didn't know, and I agree. Imports = NO!

[Aegis]

First off, that has no Rheinland touch to it at all, NONE, second, it has a larger out put then the Military gunboat, third, a POLICE gunboat costs more then a MILITARY gunboat? And I suggest for any future modelers if there is any, before you just start making stuff, spend time in the area your going to make the ship for.....it helps....

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[DartStriker]

How can you claim all credit goes to you, when you took the ship from another game?

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[Korolia]

well, at least he's got a fitting name on illusions...

this said, I believe Rheinland Police has the largest available ship selections... they got a specialized SHF, a transport, a LF...

And now a gunship?

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[tansytansey]

SOrry, I couldn't stand the engines on my old one. So I made some changes

I would shorten the length of the engine and remove the insignia. The insignia can be textured onto the ship, the Rhienland Cross is in one of the texture files. I like the concept of the bridge down the bottom with the nose up the top, but the nose feels too thin, and when I think of Rhienland Ships I think blunt, brutal edges not curving points. That's more of a Kusari Capital ship feel.

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[hribek]

Maybe there would not need to be a police gunship if the rheinland gunboat worked properly, right now it's sort of under-armed. I think that's the reason why you don't like it. Or isn't it?

[Syrus]

The problem with the Rheinland GB is, that it's not good (enough) against fighters(/bombers), that's why the police requests a "smaller" (?) gunboat for their own uses. I like that idea. And yes, the Rheinland GB seems to be a bit "under-armed", the reason for that was mentioned above *points at Spazzydragons post*. Most time you effectivly fire only 5 of the turrets on a target in front of you, if the other pilot has just a bit of skills...or isn't dead...or didn't fell asleep...whatever.

"this said, I believe Rheinland Police has the largest available ship selections... they got a specialized SHF, a transport, a LF..." - Well, how about you check the long list of ships the Liberty Navy may use and than think about saying that again... ;)

Enough of the offtopic - I think the...(only picture I can see right now, since the other got deleted?!)...the gunboat shown above looks a bit too much like the original gunboat on the first sight. But...if it's smaller than the original one it might be nice. Let's see...mh...

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[DartStriker]

I would shorten the length of the engine and remove the insignia. The insignia can be textured onto the ship, the Rhienland Cross is in one of the texture files. I like the concept of the bridge down the bottom with the nose up the top, but the nose feels too thin, and when I think of Rhienland Ships I think blunt, brutal edges not curving points. That's more of a Kusari Capital ship feel.

Well I don't believe this is going anywhere, so further changes probably won't be needed.
But a counter point for your suggestions, (Not that they are bad, but there is a reason the items you mentioned are like this.) all rheinland cap ships have beveled rheinland crosses on them. From their gunboats to the battleships. Unless of course you mean the federal police emblem, which I agree it can be textured on, it is poly heavy for how small a detail it is but the model I think is sitting under 4k as is. So it's not a big big deal. But when I created it I was going for flare, in an attempt to impress. As for the nose, believe it or not it is actually thicker then the Rheinland gunboat nose. I based this model heavily off the vanilla freelancer RM gunboat, and I thought the same way you did. I didn't like a sharp edge so I tossed in an extra set of faces to give it depth. But it can always bee increased.

If I did end up finishing this I would shrink the engine part, I actually opened the model and played around with it, and cutting that part out almost completely I think improved the look greatly.

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