Kusari "White Wolf"

[Jinx]

i m torn there...

the model itself is very good from. - but its sublety is like a blunt axe. - so there i do agree with dopamino. kusari ships ( and every other ship around ) reminds us sometimes on what they are called, sometimes more - sometimes less.

kusari ships are abstract mythological creatures... but mostly cause they are named after them. - if the dragon was named "G-500 Uziel" i m not so sure we d see the serpent in the design. the ships are more or less abstract, - and funny enough, FL ships are not anime style at all.

BUT - its said so often, we re not playing FL vanilla, but a setting that is well in the future of that. - it was also said that ships do not follow any reasonable structural integrity.... ships do not NEED to look solid or build around this aspect. - ships are sculpures ... and so, there is no reason not to look like that. - looks are a military instrument - and have always been. often military units show there weapons in the most fearful way - and if they do not have many, they try to look intimidating all the same.

so - from that point of view... its reasonable to make a ship that looks fierce and dangerous. - but discussing if a transformer battlemech is going too far or not is a different topic than talking about the model itself. - more pressing issues ( yes, its sad - but there we go again ) .... is balancing.

size - damage output - mobility ..... those gotto be put into a specific order to ensure that the ship fits in.

( about the anime look - it looks VERY anime like atm, cause the texture is not really producing much "depths" and so it looks sort of .... 2 dimensional, cartoon like )


edit:

reminds me on a thread i made some time ago - about "how sculpturlike FL ships can get today" and i had an example of an adv. eagle looking much much more like a real eagle than the abstract one. - there was a consensus that ships shouldn t go that far in a nature-look-alike.

but we do have certain anime style ships around. - epyons outcast capital ships have an anime feeling about them - yours, xing do have an anime feeling, legenations ships had a certain anime feeling ( anime does not necessarily mean "bad" - its just a design style ) - dunno about my own models, but since i don t really watch anime, i think they have none. - turkish LH fighter is very anime like, too. AoMs ships are not anime like however.

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