Excellent, Digdug. I love the detail; reminds me of the "Hell's Angels" motorcyle gang....

Drakes always struck me as semicylinders or (since we can't see what's below)possibly full cylinders, not little slightly curved flat things.

This strikes me as somewhere between neat and extremely corny. :P

well, I wanted en effect like : "..and now something completely different!" :D

I've always thought they were somewhat curved but still on the flat-ish side atarlost... XD

Hmm. That may be the case. And here I'd thought they were actually rationally designed. They look like a 60 degree arc, maybe as much as 90. This ship looks like 30 at most. This frankly does not look big enough to carry off the cargo from a wrecked large freighter.

Its amazing how much your impression of a ship changes when you see it from a different perspective, isn't it? That said, no one actually sees the big picture for the ship in the game, and in most game-ship renderings, you can't really see what the ship is made of very well. Viewing things from a near top-down perspective has a way of not letting you see much depth.

Incidentally, that is the kind of feedback that makes me not want to create ships for existing sovereigns.

I think it'll be visible from the "south" facings. It is certainly flatter than the original drake based on the lack of shading on the curved plate. It's not a lighting thing because the skull and forward wing are if anything more shaded than similar shapes on George's ships.

guys, this is basically my first attempted ship, it took me a month to build the draw the model, and I already had the reference (the Drake). I did my best to make it a resemblance of the Drake. I'll try to tweak the materials and illumination, maybe I'll get a better ship.

I think it's awesome digdug, great job!

I'd love to use it as a playership!

(*insert evil laugh here*)