phoenix_aod
Rear Admiral
lookin awesome so far!
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Klavs81
Rear Admiral
I get asked an awful lot of good questions at aerospace shows, and an awful lot of silly ones: What's your real hair color? Where's your eyepatch? etcetera, ad nauseum.
The folks who have seen 'Super Wing Commander' are the most confused, I think. There wasn't a lot of period accurate hardware available to them, so they had to use what they had on hand. Good on 'em for filming actual ships instead of using computer models, but can you imagine? A Lexington-class playing the Tiger's Claw! Banshees for Scimitars, Gladii for Raptors! At least they got some Super Rapiers to play the YF-44As, but Lordy! -If we'd had that kind of hardware in the 2650's, we'd have gone straight to Kilrah with it and won the war outright!
The most impressive thing was that they got some Kilrathi warlord to loan them a converted Shiraak class carrier to act as a 'Fralthi'. It was even more impressive when they blew it up!
Don't even get me started on the one- oh, what was it again? I knew the director, he was a good lad, and his heart was in the right place, but can you imagine? ME?! With a FRENCH accent?
Perish the thought.
-James Taggart 'Flyboy Magazine Interview August 2689.2'
The folks who have seen 'Super Wing Commander' are the most confused, I think. There wasn't a lot of period accurate hardware available to them, so they had to use what they had on hand. Good on 'em for filming actual ships instead of using computer models, but can you imagine? A Lexington-class playing the Tiger's Claw! Banshees for Scimitars, Gladii for Raptors! At least they got some Super Rapiers to play the YF-44As, but Lordy! -If we'd had that kind of hardware in the 2650's, we'd have gone straight to Kilrah with it and won the war outright!
The most impressive thing was that they got some Kilrathi warlord to loan them a converted Shiraak class carrier to act as a 'Fralthi'. It was even more impressive when they blew it up!
Don't even get me started on the one- oh, what was it again? I knew the director, he was a good lad, and his heart was in the right place, but can you imagine? ME?! With a FRENCH accent?
Perish the thought.
-James Taggart 'Flyboy Magazine Interview August 2689.2'
FekLeyrTarg
Rear Admiral
That's an awesome take on the Shiraak. [thumbs up]
phoenix_aod
Rear Admiral
And again you take a 'bleh' ship and make it look awesome 
Aeronautico
Rear Admiral
I'm just gonna call your designs the new canon designs because these are simply put, Amazing!! 
Never expected the Shiraak to pop up, it looks even more imposing now. Well done, man!
Never expected the Shiraak to pop up, it looks even more imposing now. Well done, man!
Klavs81
Rear Admiral
Thanks guys! Here's the Hakaga. She's a little light on red coloring, but I wanted to stay somewhat true to the End Run cover. I figure red accents get added with additional kills and victories, and the Hakagas weren't really 'blooded' until Sirius. She's a beast, 'nuff said!
Deathsnake
Rear Admiral
size comparison now to a Ralatha pls 
It should look like a little child
It should look like a little child
phoenix_aod
Rear Admiral
The single most awesome looking and epic badass ship of the entire Kilrathi fleet just became a million times more awesome looking damn that is some FINE work
damn that is some FINE work
gevatter Lars
Vice Admiral
I just love the amount of details that went into the Hakaga. The bigger the ships get, the more difficulte I find it to make details that are belifeable in size but still clearly visible to the viewer from afar.
Aeronautico
Rear Admiral
How big do you suppose the Hakaga is compared to the Hvar'kann from WC3?
phoenix_aod
Rear Admiral
So the only stats I could find quickly on google for the Hakaga were Length: 1,580 meters, Mass: 500,000 tonnes
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https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Hvar'kann-class_dreadnought has the Hvar'kann at 22,000 meters in length
so you could almost park a Hakaga in the the launch bay of the Hvar'kann lol
and
https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Hvar'kann-class_dreadnought has the Hvar'kann at 22,000 meters in length
so you could almost park a Hakaga in the the launch bay of the Hvar'kann lol
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Klavs81
Rear Admiral
Klavs81
Rear Admiral
And speaking of lengths, and the tweaking thereof, I've scaled down the Southampton somewhat to where it makes sense, for my purposes. Now about 340 m, a little shorter than the Exeter, but beefier. Otherwise the windows scale out to be over 1.5 m tall! Not to say that the cannon sizes don't have merit, it's just that sometimes they don't work for me.
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Please please PLEASE don't start!
Yes, the size of the Hvar'kann and whether or not it actually matches the stats given in the literature has been the subject of much argument on this website, so let us not start it up again.