+1 to what Jinx said.
For those trying to make bretonian ships - you should know some more important details in order the models to be "closer to vanila design" and more bretonian.
I will add few more details. Bretonian design is a "platform" carrier model - where the ship consist of small body with frontal bridge (gunboat/destroyer share same layout for the bridge), small engine (all bret engines share similarities) and a "platform". Overall the ship (no matter of the class) must look like it carries a huge platform. Perhaps you might wonder "why these platforms? What is so much to be carried?" Well in vanilla bretonian ships are only ones to carry huge guns (using razor animation) aka rail guns. So I guess from designer's point of view - the ship simply is unable to mount these giant guns and to make it easier these platforms were created.
-Gunboat: Giant wings/Fins exist to carry 2 massive rail guns. Currently in disco that ship is broken cuz it is not balanced according to its original design.
-Destroyer: Its most obvious ship with a platform which was supposed to feature "rotation" but possibly due to the engine limitations that was never added in the game. Nevertheless - the ship is also sleek and sharing gunboat similarities. The giant platform is supposed to carry 2x battleship vanila rail gun turrets and 1 more at the rear. (that ship if balanced according to its original design would be most op in the game)
- Battleship: Both the "head" and the body part carrying the engine are to be considered "platforms" as well as the "middle wheel"/reactor segment. In vanila game - the only turrets using "rail gun" animation (battle razor) are those located at the reactor - "wheel" part and the top of the head - these are considered "primary turrets".
So the conclusion is the vanila bretonian ships (current cap line) have such strange models only because of the massive rail guns they were supposed to carry. That is why they have platforms where these weapons to be placed. A model to look bretonian must have all these similarities - frontal bridge/smaller sleek body/platform/round small engines.
Now about a bretonian "carrier" design - things are slightly more complicated since such a ship does not exist in vanila but there are some images of a possible carrier with bretonian origin located in the bonus cd.
Before 2 years I've tried to make a rough model - for fun - just to see how this would look like:
Not very "modern" at all.
Soul's current model is cool. I hope he is working on it to make it better and textured
PS: @Unlucky_Soul If you have the time could you try to make that model below just so we can see how it looks like?
It look nice and have all features of the breotnian designs. "1" and "2" are hangar tubes - yes frontal....but it somehow looks strong and very armored. It does share some slight similarities with the kirk - only the head. It lacks "body" like we've seen so far from your models and the actual dunkirk. That one have "classic" body covered with shell armor and the engines at the rear looks cool. I do believe this could turn in to a nice model. Give it a try