BMM Asturcon Class Mining ship

[kikatsu]

Nothing very fancy, but a basic design that I thought up. Lacks the detail of my other work, but I can expand on the design if wished. However what would be really awesome is if we can get a modeler on board and get a good thing that could be actually imported into .86

Not much in terms of background information on the ship itself...working on that as I go along.
BMM build for sure. Moderately armed with 9 turrets, and above average armor for her size. However she is more sluggish, and can not hold as much cargo as the standard miner ship, but the mining bonus for BMM or just Bretonian corporations in general would be greater than the standard one. I have an idea of the ship maybe having an onboard smelter or purifier to treat the metal before shipping it off to Stokes or another station.

Her mining arms can grab small rocks and drag them up into these big grinders that are behind a set of doors that can close when not in use... located just in front of the 'barrel'.


Figured I should post it here incase someone finds the idea attractive and decides to expand upon it.




DarkStriker's Model
Latest Version

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/zeo...royal_miner.png

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[sovereign]

<3 the idea of house specific mining ships.

Though that drawing would need to be pretty wide to sufficiently distinguish it from the <strike>death-shrimp</strike> Dunkirk.

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[kikatsu]

I also love the idea of house specific mining ships...I started with Bretonia, because, well...the BMM are pretty much the biggest mining group we got.

Yeah, I think the butt end needs some modification, it does look a bit Dunkirkish. We can make it wider, no problem. Big is good in Bretonia after all :)

[DartStriker]

I also love the idea of house specific mining ships...I started with Bretonia, because, well...the BMM are pretty much the biggest mining group we got.

Yeah, I think the butt end needs some modification, it does look a bit Dunkirkish. We can make it wider, no problem. Big is good in Bretonia after all :)

Love the ship, if I get a chance I'll do a model of it for sure.

Do some front, and top down drawing please.

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[kikatsu]

Some quick sketches

Again I can clean these up and get it better looking, but this is a very rough idea.

[DartStriker]

Well, I'm working on something now, but clean these up and I will model it. I like the look of it.

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[Varok]

It looks like a retarded bretonia battleship but it is still awesome:haha:

[MrHeadphones]

Certainly looks very bretonian, but why exactly would the BMM ship stuff to Stokes, which happens to be under Kusari control?

[kikatsu]

Well it's not like Kusari built Stokes and shipped it out to Leeds. It was BMM at some point I believe.
If you want we can just say that it ships things to Graves.

[DartStriker]

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