Great modelling work. Tony :-)

Well it looks good to me whether it makes sense or not! My first impression was that the big bulky nacelles were some sort of warp drive or FTL drive. Leaving the smaller outer nacelles as thrusters or atmospheric drives. The FTL drives may be protected during atmospheric entry by force fields. A second thought - the FTL pods are Alien technology grafted on to the original ship. Most things that don't make sense actually do when you know what they are and how they work. Arthur C Clarke said something like; "the technology of an advanced race will look like magic to those of less technological advancement" (or something like that! Great ship anyway - nice dynamism in the shapes used. I also like the overall colour cast of the scene - well done.

Nice modelling work and great design and modelling of the asteroid belt the ship is going thru.

Interesting work.

Love the ship graphics as always.

Heh, at times its not the practicality of the gadgets, its whether it look cool or not. This look really cool!

VERY WELL DONE!The ship looks cool to me,the mats and composition are great...like the yellowish colour scheme!

The design is there to serve the final objective, does it look good? The answer is yes it does. Perhaps they are fuel scoops that retract when not in use?

They say that art is not to have none it criticizes or observation, and although me uniform I will make a mistake when observing, same because you asked: I removed what I think propellers in the wings (the dark pieces). The model is very beautiful and I think mainly very functional in atmosphere. I liked.

This ship is great as it is. It certainly is not any less practical than the majority of speculative spaceship designs we see in the mainstream SF media, let alone those by hobbyists such as myself and other Renderosity members. I always enjoy your work. Keep those imaginative designs coming! :-)

very cool . fantastic sci-fi world

A touch of Foss... this is very cool: a great ship and the background really sets it off too! Very well composed!

I love impractical spaceships when they look like this one. Of course the shape indicates that it's an atmospheric flier, and yeah, the nacelles would just ruin that in some pretty interesting ways, but no matter...this image rocks and with a little bit of brain twisting, there are all sorts of justifications that would work with this design, but my favorite justification is the simplest. Those nacelles are there because they look good!

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