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Xaphod's Minbari station -project

Xaphod:
"Now starting on the Mimbari Orbital Platforms... any reference pictures anyone can find would be well appreciated. Once I've got that done, I'm going to start on the larger Mimbari Station, which I also don't have many pictures of."

Minbari Station:
B5:ItF screenie
http://www.firstones.com/images/july/screen015.jpg

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This Xaphod guy is both quick and good, too bad he wasn't around longer.

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Well its fantastic that we have him now.

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Aww well thanks guys

I got a bit of a way into the mimbari orbital platform (which looks like this)



(image from the now defunct into the fire website, please noone sue me)

And then my computer crashed. I had most things (including the lintira thank god) backed up onto a few zip disks, but not the platform..

I h8 m|cr0s0ft!

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Looks good, great work Xaphod!

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Thats not his model. Thats from B5:ITF. He's working on one like it.

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Geez, flame me for this......I should read such post with more attention...

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The link at the top in Doc's post is for the Mimbari space station, rather than the orbital platform... The space station is to be approx 1.5 - 2km I think, but I'm not sure about the orbital platform. My brain thinks about 700m-1.2km, but someone correct me if they know better.

As for now, here's a wip.. It ain't close to finished, there's too many polys and the middle bit isn't attached to the ring, but here ya go.

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Not bad for half a day's work.

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The whole tbp team will only be xaphod's staff

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not sure if that was (a) a compliment - "aww thanks *blush*"
or (b) an insult - "*waaaah" "

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That model looks excellent! How many polies is it?

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That model looks excellent! How many polies is it?

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=-o 1 km? Then I guess it doesn't have to be perfect looking. What kind of weaponry does it have, if any?

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White once said you never know if Skullar MEANS what he sez or not.
This time, it was a compliment.

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Thanks skullar

and snipes, well.. I have no idea.. all I know is the pictures from the ITF site.. and they don't say anything really. Maybe the "spikes" at the side are beam turrets? Maybe the yellow thing in the middle is one beam turret and the whole thing turns like a Mjolynir(sp?). Or maybe all those little dots around the edge are turrets? Maybe all of the above?

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I'm guessing that the "spikes" are beam emitters like on the Sharlin.

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that's what I thought, but it'd give the station quite a lot of blind spots.. maybe that's why they're deployed in groups like in the pic.

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They are probably fairly defenseless against fighters. They are outposts after all....and unmovable targets are sitting ducks no matter how much weaponry they have.

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