Re: New ships!

>Our major new model launch for Salute is a whole load of NEW ships
>for the ESU [...]

Bother, you beat me to it <g> My Manchuria-style SDN is still only 
half-finished, so unless you want *three* ESU SDNs eventually I guess
I'll 
drop that project. Or convert it into something else, at least <g>

>Nic's never been happy with the quality of the FF mini (yes, it WAS a 
>"quickie" conversion of a cut-down DD), but no-one who has bought any
from 
>us has ever complained about them to my knowledge.... personally I
think 
>they're fine. The odd thing is that his reason for not sending us the
CVL 
>was that he was thought that was a bit rough too, though he still
produces 
>it....  :-/

Having seen Alan's photos of the CVL, I can sort of understand what Nic
is 
thinking of: while there's nothing wrong with the *layout* of the CVL,
some 
of the *surface details* (the engine exhausts in particular) are rather 
cruder than on the smaller OU ships.

But what about the FT921 OU Heavy Fighters? *Are* you going to get them 
from Nic, or will I have to copy them too like I did with the CVL...? 
They'd make perfect "not-Pilums" to oppose my FT422 Kra'Vak
"not-Avengers"...

>Maybe we'll just have to do a new CVL based on Oerjan's BC/BB parts.

Don't you dare! You'll make the new OU CVL from the *CVL* parts still 
sitting half-detailed on my workbench along with the all-new heavy fleet

auxiliary, and nothing else! <G> (Hopefully I'll be able to free up more

time for sculpting now that I've gotten the domestic construction tasks
out 
of the way and the old apartment is safely sold off...)

FWIW the new OU CVL has the same configuration (single outrigger) and 
dimensions as the Eureka one but (somewhat) different surface detail;
the 
BC and BB OTOH are trimarans. It would be possible to make a mirror
image 
of the CVL's hangar pod to make a BB-sized trimaran carrier... but
that'd 
take even more time, and it'd *still* be smaller than the CVLs of other 
fleets, so I'm not really sure that it'd be worthwhile. It'd require
that 
the OUDF is rich enough to afford warships that large (not to mention 
capable of building them), too :-/

Later,

Oerjan

oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry