I'm afraid I'm kind of 'meh' on the armored nose design you came up with, but not strongly against, certainly. I like your SDF design a bit more than mine, actually, but the more I think about things the more I want a really transforming SDF-1... it's just too ingrained in the setting. I don't think it would take a big change to what you have to make something (relatively) reasonable, though - turn your thruster bank so they're horizontal instead of vertical, mainly, and split it four ways. To transform, the central body section between the thrusters and guns lifts up, the lower two main thrusters slide in under it on either side of the pylon to the underslung ship. Outrigger ships become arms just as in the original, and the upper two thruster sections extend slightly to be somewhat stumpy legs, the thighs being the after, outer thirds of the central section. do a half roll, then pitch up 90 degrees while the main gun moves down to face forward, SDF-1's in Standing Mode, though the bridge sticks out of its chest rather than being moved to a 'head' position - no need, there's sensor arrays all over the ship, and it would just get in the way of flipping the main gun down.
- CD
ETA: EML, the only problem I have with that is that it's almost the same as my Motodyne logo - lose the split, make it straight lines instaed of curves, and you've pretty much got it, right down to how far the tips hang out of the circle. Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing, mind you... IIRC I was trying for something halfway between the UN Spacy insignia, and Starfleet's.
Edit2: the Motodyne arrowhead sans circle is visible here on the nose of my 2142 flcghtcycle, while the Gazzok has something that might do instead of the (rather bland) broken-pentagon thingy, wrapped around it's own spinal mount barrel.That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
- CD
ETA: EML, the only problem I have with that is that it's almost the same as my Motodyne logo - lose the split, make it straight lines instaed of curves, and you've pretty much got it, right down to how far the tips hang out of the circle. Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing, mind you... IIRC I was trying for something halfway between the UN Spacy insignia, and Starfleet's.
Edit2: the Motodyne arrowhead sans circle is visible here on the nose of my 2142 flcghtcycle, while the Gazzok has something that might do instead of the (rather bland) broken-pentagon thingy, wrapped around it's own spinal mount barrel.That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows