RE: [FT] The knight who sees NI (long)

I won't tease, but I will upload to the store in about 15 minutes...... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU 
> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Noam Izenberg
> Sent: 08 October 2004 20:46
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: [FT] The knight who sees NI (long)
> 
> Mine eyes have seen the glory that is the new New Israeli 
> Fleet. It's fantastic.
> 
> Jon was kind enough to send me about 10 megs of pics of the 
> new miniatures, and I'm going to tease you with inadequate 
> descriptions.
> 
> You may commence drooling in 3... 2... 1... Mark.
> 
> You already know and love the Tzayad DD, Maccabee CE, and 
> Sabra BB, so my ship descriptions will relate to those.
> First - the fighters
> FT 1501	Kfir Light Fighters - already out, these are 
> not BG Colonial 
> Vipers.
> FT 1521	Bard'las Heavy Fighters look... heavy, already 
> starting the 
> wing+pod theme of the ships of the fleet.
> 
> The ships all have the Techno/Deco look to them that the 
> first three in 
> the series established. The designs hint at 1920's and 1930's 
> concepts 
> of  rounded streamlined spaceships in the fore parts, then 
> getting into 
> more "bricky" modern sci-fi as you move aft. The arrowhead shapes of 
> the bodies are distinctive, and the vertical "wings" in the capital 
> ships are unique. The star-engines are also quite nifty. I like that 
> they're pretty subtle unless you're looking at them dead aft.
> 
> FT 1502	Sheir Scoutship
> FT 1503	Sa'ar Corvette
> These are rather dart shaped, and look built for speed.
> 
> FT 1504	Ra'am Battle Frigate
> FT 1505	Tzayad Destroyer
> Ra'am looks less arrow-head like than Tzayad - a bit like the human 
> fighters in the rather awful movie rendition of the Human-Kilrathi 
> spacewar game who's title escapes me at the moment. WHile the 
> movie was 
> bad, the ship design was cool, and Ra'am is, of course, a 
> frigate, not 
> a fighter.
> 
> FT 1506	Kashat Light Cruiser
> FT 1507	Maccabee Escort/Patrol Cruiser
> FT 1508	Yerushalayim class Heavy Cruiser
> The cruisers are again all related, looking like three stages 
> of growth 
> of the same ship from youth to adolescent to adult. Kasaht is 
> a little 
> more jagged than Mac, and Yerushalayim is longer and more muscular 
> looking - especially in the fore-hull. Yerushalayim and 
> larger all have 
> that underslung barrel (evloving into it's own pod in some of the 
> larger classes) which seems to beg for a heavy weapon.
> 
> FT 1509	Barak Battlecruiser
> FT 1510	Sabra Battleship
> Barak is an evolution of Yerushaliym in that the arrowhead wings grow 
> some, and the forehull gets more meat. Sabra looks basically like a 
> Barak unfolding into the third dimension.
> 
> FT 1511	Chalutz Chalal Heavy Battleship  (Battledreadnought)
> Take a Sabra, widen the arrowhead enough to fit _two_ engine nacelles 
> in the back, modify the fore hull a bit, and you have a 
> Chalutz Chalal. 
> Very nice.
> 
> FT 1512	David Ben Gurion Superdreadnought
> Widen it still more, and stik on two quad shoulder gunpods facing 
> forward, and you have Ben Gurion. David means serious business.
> 
> FT 1513	Kineret Light Carrier
> Take a Chalutz and swap out the forehull with an underslung 
> fighter bay 
> pod, and you have a Kineret  - probably 4 groups
> 
> FT 1514	Tzion Supercarrier
> Change out the shoulder gunpods of the Ben Gurion for Fighter 
> bays, and 
> thicken up the fore hull, and you have the awesome Tzion. 8 groups, 
> maybe around 280 TMF
> 
> They're great!  I  just know that kitbashers are going to love the 
> capital classes.
> 
> I'm in the process of generating some Alpha test stats for the ships 
> (alas, _not_ with stealth hulls_). These will be released 
> with, or soon 
> after the pics go up - whenever Jon gives the OK.
> 
> My fleet is going to kick so much @ss (when I get the darn thing 
> painted). But here's a preview... one of my almost finished Sabras. 
> With a little CG
> http://nift.firedrake.org/Mini_Images/SabraCG.jpg
> 
> 
> Zone Miner Garb   (what Noam R. Izenberg wears in the Zone Mines)
>