Kusari Battle Cruiser

[Thaddeus]

Been looking at the Shattered Worlds: War Torn Kusari Battle Crusier recently. I have to say that its the most "Kusari" cap ship I have seen to date. Top marks.

As always though, it has some problems. Fisrtly, its all one big lump, no groups. When you pop that sucker its just going to vanish entirely.

Second, it uses a set of texture named exactly the same as the standard texture, but flipped vertically. CRC problems, back to the good old days when ships used to change colour at odd times.

Thirdly, it has a bay door that you would have trouble getting a starflier in.

Forthly, baydoors dont open, dosent have an internal bay anyway and even if it did you wouldnt get in because the .sur is a Liberty Battleship. no bay on that part of the .sur

I am going to try and fix it, might take a while stay tuned

Wallpaper size pic!

edit: original model by Vapourlynx

[Thaddeus]

New control tower model built to the outline of the old, textured and rebated windows. This will be added to the Nose section in the 212 node. Still got to remove a few light holes but otherwise done

[Thaddeus]

Reworked nose design for the Battle Crusier, I was too busy adding detail that I didnt notice that the doors actually have very little depth behind them. Nose has yet to be sectioned so that they can form a nose and a front section. Vital for a vanilla destruction fuse like the Ku_battleship. In the battleship fuse the Nose is thrown forward a good few metres while the rest of the ship implodes, nose is left as debris.

[Thaddeus]

Latest Development model of the Battle Crusier. Everything to the back of the two accomodation turrets on the rear of the Bow is untouched. New bow section completed, sectioned just aft of the new pipework, windows added to back faces of the internal structure.

Forward Bow section now comes away cleanly and is left as debris on destruction. Still have to make the damage caps.

Next Bay doors.

[Thaddeus]

Due to hardware failures, work on various project ground to a halt for a couple of weeks. Still, back together again. Work continues on the sides of the cruiser, this is the forward section of the main body. Docking bay has been checked for size using the largest freighter I have, the Conestoge and added. Quite a lot of internal detail has been constructed, some might be visible during docking sequence, dont know yet. As you can see, turrets now have their own little islands to sit on, superstructor has been rebated to added a little interest but more to increase the detail of the texture tile for the rest of the side. Missile turrets fit on the shelf below the new pagoda roof observation towers.