The trouble with the X-wing design is that the weapons are all out on the wingtips... and hence, if you have a car conversion dead center in your sights, you're going to pot four shots around it. If it dodges just the wrong way, one or maybe two will hit. Sure, fine, they look cool there, but it's highly impractical, and without any real need for air intakes on engines putting them in at the wing roots both reduces the centripetal force of maneuvers twisting them out of alignment and gives a much tighter grouping, for more concentrated effect. If camaflage is a real issue, leave dummies on the wing tips.
I think I'd vote something more like the twin-nose version of the Crusher Joe fighter from the front of the old Aerotech box (from Battletech) - that looked cool and mean and has the ramming prow aspect of it's truly yseful at that scale, and a gun cluster could be mounted centerline low between the noses to keep them out of harm's way.
That said, with the restriction of weapons to things that work IRL and the fact that there's little for them to gain from just blowing stuff up, it might perhaps be better to have the craft being built something more along the lines of the boarding shuttles than a space fighter per se - it's a purpose built craft, and it could easily be said that either the plans were not lost in the raid, or the project was rebuilt from the fragmentary notes that remained - meaning that the craft was slower going into service, and hence still serving a useful purpose with the raid.
- CD
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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
I think I'd vote something more like the twin-nose version of the Crusher Joe fighter from the front of the old Aerotech box (from Battletech) - that looked cool and mean and has the ramming prow aspect of it's truly yseful at that scale, and a gun cluster could be mounted centerline low between the noses to keep them out of harm's way.
That said, with the restriction of weapons to things that work IRL and the fact that there's little for them to gain from just blowing stuff up, it might perhaps be better to have the craft being built something more along the lines of the boarding shuttles than a space fighter per se - it's a purpose built craft, and it could easily be said that either the plans were not lost in the raid, or the project was rebuilt from the fragmentary notes that remained - meaning that the craft was slower going into service, and hence still serving a useful purpose with the raid.
- CD
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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