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Published: 2015-02-25 23:27:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 3655; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 61
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Hello:These are renders of the Cylon Gunship (or Gunstar) designed by CanisD from the WolfShipyards webpage.
It's role could be to support Baseships by protecting them from close-range attacks, but also they can make independent missions. The Gunship is semi-sentient like the Raiders.
The model and texture are mine. The turret design is based on the turrets on the main Cylon Colony, so you may know how they can fire
.I hope you'll like it. Comments are appreciated.
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Hola:
Estois son renderizados del Cañonero Cylon (o Gunstar) diseñado por CanisD de la página WolfShipyards.
Su rol puede ser de soporte para las Navebases al protegerlas de ataques de corto-alcance, también pueden realizar misiones independientes. El Cañonero es parcialmente sensible (sentiente) como los Raiders.
El modelo y textura son mios. El diseño de los cañones están basados en aquellos de la Colonia principal Cylon, asi que pueden saber como pueden disparar
.Espero que les haya gustado. Los comentarios se aprecian.
Dale click a "Download" para ver todos los detalles.
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This is a render of the Cylon "Sheol" class gunstar that I commissioned CanisD to draw for my fanfic, Lady Hecate. The circular spots along her spine are indeed missile clusters, while along the main body and under the wing were Raider nests for 66 Raiders on each side. As designed, she carried 18 quad kinetic turrets for anti-ship use as the Cylons (specifically the faction led by Tanith Basilin) realized that an all missile armament wouldn't be truly effective against the Colonials if they were operational, and especially if they were equipped with the Manticore missile system.
The Sheol class replaced the Gehenna class gunstar after only a few examples of the Gehenna were produced. Despite the Gehenna having a few extra turrets and more heavy anti-ship missiles, they were essentially one half of a baseship and were much more fragile than the purpose built and heavily armored Sheols.
If you have any questions on this or any of the other ships I've commissioned for Lady H, please ask.
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Hello:
First of all thank you very much for commenting. I really hope you liked my version of that design you commissioned because I think it fits the Reimagined Cylon style perfectly and I tried to draw the patterns as closely to the references as I could 
The turrets I added is the model I made based on the quad-cannons that we saw in the Cylon Colony 
Honestly, Cylons need a design like this one although I had no idea it could also nest Raiders too, that is quite an interesting revelation.
I was thinking to make a half-sized version of your design (at 342.5 meters lenght, 3 turrets and missiles), so it could match size and to help guard the non-combat Cylon ships (mining ships, refinery ships, construction ships you can see in my gallery
I have heard of the Lady Hecate, since you can notice that I visit the WolfShipyard forums (although I never made an account there ). How is that story going?
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I had several designs for the "new" Cylons commissioned ranging from a small scout/courier/skirmisher all the way up to a baseship that was considerably larger than the standard one shown in the series. The turrets are, as you surmised, based on those seen at the Colony.
Lady Hecate is going strong, 41 chapters with 8 sub vignettes totaling over 1100 pages in Word. I also make the story available in pdf, Kindle, and eBook formats if the reader wants to read off-line.
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Hello:
Did you commission for that updated Iblis class baseship? Or was it another design? I would love to, eventually, build a heavier starship for the Reimagined Cylons
And cool about the turrets, I thought they would fit in the ship as well as to standarize a bit between all designs out there.
I did make that smaller version I mentioned before (with CanisD's scaling, the normal-sized is between 1/2 to 2/3 the lenght of a baseship), the smaller one wouldn't nest Raiders but it can be very fast. I may keep it even if I can make a new corvette-sized ship. I hope that is no problem with you, because in the game I mod, it sure keeps it's firepower
Oh wow, that one is surely huge O_O . But that is something super amazing 
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I'm not sure what an Iblis class baseship is, so the answer would probably be no. The large baseship is the Duat class, with Covenant being the only one mentioned thus far in the story.
You can find the story at www.bsg-94.org in the downloads section.
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Hello:
This is the retouched Iblis Baseship CanisD made based on Atolm's design -> i49.photobucket.com/albums/f25…
But I am also interested about the Duat class baseship. Is there a pic of it somewhere?
Thank you for the link! I just bookmarked it.
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Ah, ok. Allen Knott commissioned that one, IIRC.
The Duat class, in this case represented by the Covenant, is here:
s49.photobucket.com/user/Canis…
A size comparison between a Duat class and the baseship seen in the series is here:
s49.photobucket.com/user/Canis…
All the drawings in that folder are ones that I commissioned.
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It is a great design, I have made other designs of Atolm, like the Battlestar Chrysaor and the Cylon Hound Raider
Is Covenant an individual name for that particular ship? And wow it is surely huge
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Covenant is the name of one ship in the class. The driving force behind them and several other designs is a #6 who spent significant time in both the Colonial and Communion fleets, which opened her eyes to the tactical deficiencies of the normal Cylon ships.
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Hello:
I never thought of giving individual baseships a name (instead of a number or serial, I guess), it might be nice for hero units
It is indeed canon infor that the Cylons would have been unable to win a direct war with the Colonials, and I have seen those difficulties with my mod project, so that is why I started looking at new ship designs to add to the Cylon fleets.
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I think the Cylons shot themselves in the foot with their designs; the baseships were relatively fragile (Colonial kinetics had a habit of punching holes through them) and the weapons they carried were unable to penetrate a battlestar's armor without a swarm of weapons hitting in the same areas, and those weapons were able to be intercepted.
It's hard to deflect a 300 ton slug moving at 10km/s...
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Hello:
I have seen tons of discussions about this. The Cylons did indeed had quite the change in the paradigm of ship-building (from normal ships to bio-mechanical entities), with the benefits of their baseships able to heal by themselves, been much faster and maneuvrable. But you are right that they were fragile 
I think that part of the reason might have been plot-driven, with the Cylon ships not been invincible but attacking in numbers surely add thrill to the series, specially since there were so few batttlestars left (1-2 canon ones). Also, the difference in weaponry also add to the variety.
But yes, they needed ships with the correct punch and defenses. Maybe, there would have been able to develop more powerful ships like they are doing in your fanfic
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Never seen this one before. I can see why it could be used close-range attacks. Hit and run, get in there and run! Good job!
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Hello:
Yeah, this is one of the Cylon gunship designs by CanisD (as stated in the pic and description), so it was never seen onscreen. But, like you, I think this ship is a great asset for the Cylons.
Thank you very much!
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Well done Chile, the blended wing body is superb, perfect for the Cylons!
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Hello:
And thank you kindly!
I liked the design a lot, I am glad that you liked it because I also think it fits the Cylons very well
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Hello:
And thank you very much!
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good work do Gunship have any missiles launched or use gun turret do Gunship carry any fighter
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Hello:
And thank you!.
Sadly, unless I look for info again in the WolfShipyard webpage I would just keep guesstimating stats for this ship designed by CanisD. But, in the dorsal area, there are 20+ circles that look like missile silos, so I use them together with gun turrets.
As for fighters, it carries none by default as that fits Baseships better (baseships been carriers and gunships been more fighting ships), but I gave it a hangar in the ventral area, justin case
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Cool model mate, I guess it's pretty small like a corvette sized vessel.
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Hello:
Thanks for commenting
Actually, it is rather big. I had problems with the scaling but I took the original drawing and used the given scale and I compared it to the canon baseship. I can show you that pic because I could use your opinion.
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Sure thing, sorry I haven't been on just been so busy and DA is unfortunately at the bottom of that priority list.
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Hello:
Well, I have been on MSFC and I haven't seen you there either, but DA is still where I am mostly active (not counting Skype). I hope things will go well for you. And I am soon to complete my Battlestar Atlantia.
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