No pictures today. Spent some time doing a little detail work here and there, but the biggest change was I started blocking out another hangar on the underside. Not overly happy with it at this point - It juts out /way/ too far, but I need that extra space for BIG hangars as well as for the orbital deployment bits. It's also very likely that the 'flight deck' will end up being repurposed, and all the hangarspace moved elsewhere. As it stands, I'm none too happy with how tight the wing hangars are, so I'll likely be ripping those apart again soon, too - if only to ensure I've got enough docking space to dock the ships I've chosen to be my primary fighters, bombers, etc. Which I've also made a decision on, but I'll be announcing that tomorrow after conversing with the creator(s) of the crafts. Suffice to say the performance and style of the vessels has impressed me sufficiently to overcome the enormous ~effort~ threshold of modifying my hangars to fit them. (As it stands, the bombers I chose had to be chopped apart to fit in the wing hangars, and the fighters I chose had to be /butchered/ in order to dock.
This will also give me the opportunity to do a rethink on the weapons systems housed in the wing hangars, as well as a few other niggling little details that have been bugging me since I built the wing hangars. (they always felt like I just tacked them onto the side rather than being a proper part of the hull, which, in a way, I did. /And I hate it./) Oh, and it will get rid of the god-awful penis deck on the undercarriage. (I fucking hate that thing, I don't know why I built it.)
Meanwhile, Jsem has been hard at work in the bridge, making the interior look purdy, and he /thinks/ he's got the communications deck laid out. (I haven't looked yet, I spent most of the day taking measurements, making calculations, and playing with ideas of how I want the hangar expansion to look so it won't look like yet another 'tacked on' extension) While I'm still not /completely/ happy with the exterior of the bridge, I'm at the point where I need to work on something else for a while and mull it over, and at the moment I'm too goddamned distracted with how badly I need larger hangar space/(wider/taller) runways/how fucking ugly the invisible-to-everyone-but-me seam between the old hull and the new one is.
Also, I rather like the effect I had put in before I added the wing hangars with the bulbous outcroppings on the bottom - they fit the ship well and felt, well, shiplike. So I think I'll be putting some of that into the new underside.