It’s weird; I haven’t played X-Wing miniatures for years now, but I wanted the FFG Assault Gunboat, yet by the time FFG released it the game was broken so no stores within 100miles ever stocked it.
Even so, I’d rather have an Assault Gunboat model of fractalsponge’s quality.
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Dale
Out of curiosity, did Fantasy Flight buy the rights to this your iteration of this ship’s design? If not, it’s uncannily similar…
No, they just used it. But since I used this design for my illustrations for the Guide to Warfare book, this was the last canon version available.
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Dale
Ah, gotcha. I guess it was part of the Disney IP, then. Kinda fucked up, still. Their modelers are pretty shoddy; it would’ve been nice to have a hand with more finesse (a.k.a. you) behind the zBrush.
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gorkmalork
Gotta second you there. Plus, upon squinting at Fractal’s small-craft comparison post from some time back ( http://fractalsponge.net/?p=1041 ), it seems like FFG’s Starwing wound up shrunk to roughly Y/B-wing-comparable mass. Which contrasts somewhat amusingly with the ‘Avenger on steroids+questionable-cosmetics’ approach WRT Ep 8’s TIE Silencer.
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Grand Admiral Declann
Do I see a pair of LTL’s in the horizontal wing roots?
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gorkmalork
On a stock XG1 those are probably heavy lasers, though I recall Fractal tinkering with an exclusively LTL-armed Starwing variant somewhere waaaay back in his thread on the stardestroyer.net board.
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Grand Admiral Declann
Say, what is that hatch at the back? Could it be used to mount a LTL like your escort shuttle?
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gorkmalork
Escort shuttle’s turret might not fit back there, but I could see a pair of TIE-yield guns working out.
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Sapceman_28
Is this closer to a starfighter or carrier?
It looks like a carrier but looks like it could use more space if it was one.
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gorkmalork
Basically seems to be a large, fast, punchy fighter-bomber, somewhat akin to various twin-engine WWII attack birds.
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Grand Admiral Declann
It is neither. It is a gunboat, so basically an attack craft.
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Anonymous
Oh those are ion cannons huh I should have look it up on wookiepedia but it is neat to have them nonetheless.
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Anonymous
But now that I look at it from time to time I think those ion cannons shouldn’t be on top of the cockpit because when it fire it could hurt the pilot’s eyes or worst blind them so I would have put those ion cannons under the cockpit just to be safe.
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Anonymous
So Fractal about those two laser cannons on top of the starwing cockpit is it the same caliber as the TIEs chin laser cannons or higher?
Speaking of gun distribution, I wonder how much the Starwing might benefit from a Lambda-style aft twin mount? Doesn’t seem like it would break the bank for power allocation on a strike bird this beefy.
You’d need a gunner or at least a droid to control it. Human pilots can’t multitask like that. In terms of space and weight cost it might be ok…
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gorkmalork
True enough re: multitasking, hence my musings a while back about single-seaters with single-axis swivel guns. Starwing also seems broad enough to fit said extra station or two without undue cramping compared to Y-wings or TIE/sa (much less T-47s).
looks like a baby Lambda shuttle with 5 wings.
It’s weird; I haven’t played X-Wing miniatures for years now, but I wanted the FFG Assault Gunboat, yet by the time FFG released it the game was broken so no stores within 100miles ever stocked it.
Even so, I’d rather have an Assault Gunboat model of fractalsponge’s quality.
Out of curiosity, did Fantasy Flight buy the rights to this your iteration of this ship’s design? If not, it’s uncannily similar…
No, they just used it. But since I used this design for my illustrations for the Guide to Warfare book, this was the last canon version available.
Ah, gotcha. I guess it was part of the Disney IP, then. Kinda fucked up, still. Their modelers are pretty shoddy; it would’ve been nice to have a hand with more finesse (a.k.a. you) behind the zBrush.
Gotta second you there. Plus, upon squinting at Fractal’s small-craft comparison post from some time back ( http://fractalsponge.net/?p=1041 ), it seems like FFG’s Starwing wound up shrunk to roughly Y/B-wing-comparable mass. Which contrasts somewhat amusingly with the ‘Avenger on steroids+questionable-cosmetics’ approach WRT Ep 8’s TIE Silencer.
Do I see a pair of LTL’s in the horizontal wing roots?
On a stock XG1 those are probably heavy lasers, though I recall Fractal tinkering with an exclusively LTL-armed Starwing variant somewhere waaaay back in his thread on the stardestroyer.net board.
Say, what is that hatch at the back? Could it be used to mount a LTL like your escort shuttle?
Escort shuttle’s turret might not fit back there, but I could see a pair of TIE-yield guns working out.
Is this closer to a starfighter or carrier?
It looks like a carrier but looks like it could use more space if it was one.
Basically seems to be a large, fast, punchy fighter-bomber, somewhat akin to various twin-engine WWII attack birds.
It is neither. It is a gunboat, so basically an attack craft.
Oh those are ion cannons huh I should have look it up on wookiepedia but it is neat to have them nonetheless.
But now that I look at it from time to time I think those ion cannons shouldn’t be on top of the cockpit because when it fire it could hurt the pilot’s eyes or worst blind them so I would have put those ion cannons under the cockpit just to be safe.
So Fractal about those two laser cannons on top of the starwing cockpit is it the same caliber as the TIEs chin laser cannons or higher?
The top guns are light ion cannon.
Speaking of gun distribution, I wonder how much the Starwing might benefit from a Lambda-style aft twin mount? Doesn’t seem like it would break the bank for power allocation on a strike bird this beefy.
You’d need a gunner or at least a droid to control it. Human pilots can’t multitask like that. In terms of space and weight cost it might be ok…
True enough re: multitasking, hence my musings a while back about single-seaters with single-axis swivel guns. Starwing also seems broad enough to fit said extra station or two without undue cramping compared to Y-wings or TIE/sa (much less T-47s).